Charlie Puth takes first-ever chance to be ‘incredibly honest’ in his new music<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\nCharlie Puth has had a busy routine lately from performing the Star-Spangled Banner<\/i> to open the Super Bowl LX at Levi\u2019s Stadium last month to his fourth and latest studio album, Whatever\u2019s Clever!<\/i> via Atlantic Records, which dropped today, March 27.<\/p>\n
Billboard reported, that as the pop singer spoke of his album, he mentioned, \u201cI had to take a closer look at myself to make this record and sing about things I normally wouldn\u2019t sing about.\u201d <\/p>\n
\u201cAudiences knew my music more than they knew me because I never really gave them a chance to know me. This is the chance,\u201d Puth revealed.<\/p>\n
The Attention<\/i> hitmaker\u2019s ambition was to \u201cmake a rich, warm, and big-sounding record.\u201d <\/p>\n
To turn his video into reality, BloodPop came on board as co-producer and to push Puth \u201cto use sonics I hadn\u2019t touched before, to sing about subjects I\u2019d never sung about, and write songs that might\u2019ve made me uncomfortable in the past.\u201d<\/p>\n
The album features assistance from Michael McDonald and Kenny Loggins, who contribute to the yacht rock song Love In Exile<\/i>; actor Jeff Goldblum, whose spoken word lyrics are worked into Until It Happens To You. <\/i><\/p>\n
This comes after Puth graced the screen with March 26 appearance for a spot on ABC<\/i>\u2019s Jimmy Kimmel Live!<\/i>, where he performed album cut Sideways alongside Coco Jones.<\/p>\n
Then, his WHATEVER\u2019S CLEVER! World Tour<\/i> would kick off on April 22 at San Diego\u2019s Viejas Arena, followed by pan-European concerts in June and July.<\/p>\n
Charlie Puth\u2019s streams top 35 billion, he\u2019s collected nine multi-platinum singles, four Grammy Award nominations, three Billboard Music Awards, a Critic\u2019s Choice Award and a Golden Globe nomination.<\/p>\n
He has also enjoyed a 12-week stint at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 with his Wiz Khalifa collaboration on 2015\u2019s Fast And Furious<\/i> hit See You Again.<\/i><\/p>\n
\u201cWhat\u2019s funny is I don\u2019t consider any of these 12 songs to be clever, I consider them to be real,\u201d Charlie Puth recently told Tom\u00e1s Mier during a sit-down at Blue Note Jazz Club Los Angeles. Whatever\u2019s Clever!<\/i>, he insists, is \u201cinherently jazzy\u201d and \u201cincredibly honest.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n