

Puth talked more about the production of the song before wrapping up his thoughts: "With all that gibberish that I just said. just kinda in my feels at the time because we've all been through something like that." I'm like, "Okay, I'm gonna make a song called 'Smells Like Me' and it's gonna be about how you wish the person you were once with, who is currently with someone else, would wear an article of clothing when they're with that person romantically that reminds them of you. 'Cause, it's kind of an ugly word if you think about it," he said, scrunching up his face.Īfter speaking more about how the idea for the song came about, he added, "I had the concept in my head. I don't know the backstory but I heard her say 'Smells Like Me' and like the dork that I am, I missed dinner with my friends and I was at my parents' house Googling all the songs that had the word "smells" in it. "I heard her say something about a scarf.

To set up his next song, the singer reminisced about driving on the Pacific Coast Highway listening to "All Too Well" by Taylor Swift, "and the 10-minute version," he clarified. I can't get this friend of mine out of my mind. "I've always been so enamored with how he's able to command the stage and I thought 'why not showcase that in the video?' It's just like a perfect bromance, that's what I'm outlining. When JoJo asked about the music video of their song "Left and Right," Puth revealed that he wrote the song about Jung Kook. He has absolute pitch too, where he can I'm always fascinated by people like that and especially because he can't really speak too good of English just like I can't speak Korean so we're able to communicate seamlessly through melody. And I was always just so impressed with how he was able to hit all those notes so flawlessly. With Jungkook, I met him in South Korea four years ago. "I mean, any collaboration that I do I have to have some sort of musical connection with the person. "See if he said this sentence to me six years ago I wouldn't have believed him. JoJo came back out to ask Puth some questions about his creative process and the differences between collaborating with someone like Elton John versus Jungkook. He followed it up with an oldie but goodie he called "one of my favorite songs," 2016's "One Call Away." Puth then kicked off the music by singing one of those three tracks, "Left and Right" featuring Jung Kook of BTS. "A lot of albums are called 'highly-anticipated' but this guy's fans have been bombarding social media with demands he drops the album already," adding that Charlie garnered "nearly a half a billion streams with only its first three tracks."

The party's host, iHeartRadio's JoJo Wright, kicked off the night by welcoming fans to the metaverse and giving them some context for the new music they were about to hear. On Friday, October 7th, Puth took over State Farm Park in iHeartLand on Roblox for an exclusive iHeartRadio Album Release Party to debut new songs, talk about how Taylor Swift inspired one of the tracks, his bromance with Jungkook from BTS, and of course, geek out about music. We will do our very best to be your juniors! We love you, our sunbaenim/s," the group wrote, using the term "subaenim," meaning "senior" in the sense of referring to someone who's slightly older or has gone before you, to affectionately refer to BTS.Charlie Puth 's new album Charlie is finally here and the singer joined fans in the metaverse to celebrate. "Thank you so much for having to give us time and say such nice things to us with good advice. Thanks to fan translations, we know that the caption TXT wrote acknowledges that TXT and BTS are part of a music family - and it's ridiculously sweet. In a photo posted to the TXT Twitter on March 7, fans got a look at TXT and BTS casually hanging out together.

The realization that Jungkook was no longer a "maknae" (in the world of K-Pop, that's the youngest member in a boy band) and had been elevated to "hyung", or "older brother," status by the TXT boys made the BTS ARMY all kinds of emotional. This week, one of BTS's own, Jungkook, finally became "Jungkookie hyung" within the Big Hit Entertainment family after BTS and new BigHit group TXT finally hung out.
