Charlie Puth confessed that one of his biggest critics is Elton John.
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Charlie Puth's Light Switch - which finally arrives on streaming services tomorrow (January 20) after months of teasers and false starts - seems precision-tooled to go viral.
It has irreverent and slightly silly lyrics ("you turn me on like a light switch") and throwback production (think Taylor Swift's more bombastic 1989 sonic flourishes, with the stylings of the 1975). And really, that's the point - the virality of songs on platforms like TikTok has become an essential factor in many recent songs breaking into the mainstream and on to the charts.
That's certainly how some of the biggest hits of the last two years (Doja Cat's Say So, Olivia Rodrigo's Drivers License, even Gayle's reigning UK Number 1 single abcdefu) became so big...but Light Switch is different, in so much as the song's creation was chronicled in a series of increasingly viral TikTok posts.
The first time Charlie Puth - a US pop singer who has so far 2 Number 1s and 4 Top 10 hits in the UK - made anyone aware of a song called Light Switch, it was all the way back in September 2021, for a recurring video series where he combines a seemingly random bunch of thoughts and noises made with different objects into a pop song.
Light Switch is the end result of years of experimentation and tastemaking on the popular video-sharing app; a TikTok song made via TikTok. A joke that has turned into a much-discussed and highly-publicised launch single. The most meta of meta scenarios.
But it's worked precisely because, even in its roughest form, the song has always sounded like a hit. It's no wonder that Charlie has been fielding calls from his label begging him to finish the song, and has been teasing its release since the end of last year even promising a
Charlie Puth confessed that one of his biggest critics is Elton John.
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Charlie Puth has just released his new single Light Switch after months (and months and months) of teasing, and apparently there's a whole album to follow it.
Charlie Puth has revealed that he’s created most of his new album on TikTok.
Charlie Puth has revealed that he created most of his new album on TikTok.The singer said in a new interview that his self-titled follow-up to 2018’s ‘Voicenotes‘ is finished. He said TikTok enabled him to create the majority of its songs.Speaking to Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1, Puth said: “I’m going to call the album, ‘Charlie’. It’s done.
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