Taylor Swift name-checked Charlie Puth and the internet is debating it

CNN
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Charlie Puth is a serious Swiftie and it seems the admiration could also be mutual.

Taylor Swift shouts out her fellow singer-songwriter within the title monitor on her new album, “The Tortured Poets Division.”

“You smoked then ate seven bars of chocolate,” she sings within the love track. “We declared Charlie Puth ought to be an even bigger artist.”

Puth, recognized for such hits as “One Name Away” and singing the hook on Wiz Khalifa’s “See You Once more, is well-documented in his musical appreciation of Swift.

Not solely has he been recognized to cowl her songs whereas in live performance, however in 2022 a video of him praising her musicality made the rounds.

“Sidebar, this has nothing to do with something, however Taylor Swift is the queen of all these chords,” he informed attendees at his New York Metropolis live performance as he performed her track, “Teardrops on My Guitar.”

A part of the enjoyable of any Swift album launch is dissecting her lyrics and the Puth reference has stirred the Swifties.

One particular person posted on X, “Charlie Puth, Underrated Legend. She is aware of. I do know,” becoming a member of a cacophony of these co-signing Swift’s obvious endorsement.

Nonetheless others noticed the lyric in a less-flattering gentle.

“Did she name Charlie Puth a flop,” one other particular person posted.

Puth and Swift share some connections past each being singer-songwriters.

His hit 2016 single “We Don’t Discuss Anymore” options Swift’s good buddy Selena Gomez, who has lengthy denied that she and Puth have been ever romantically concerned – one thing he appeared to verify by tweeting on the time that he and Gomez have been simply pals.

However in 2018, amid hypothesis that his track “Consideration” was about Gomez, Puth informed Billboard, “I don’t kiss and inform, however the one method a track like [“We Don’t Talk Anymore”] can come throughout as actual is that if there’s one thing else happening behind the scenes.”

“And that’s what was taking place [with Gomez]. Very short-lived, very small, however very impactful,” he informed the publication.

CNN has reached out to representatives for Puth for remark.