Once again, Charlie's proving himself to be an unconventional king of music.
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And it's not as though Puth isn't open to grabbing inspiration wherever it strikes. Recounting his process for the song with Gomez, he pulled out his iPhone and played a recording of the moment when the melody came to him one day as he drove past the Santa Monica Pier.
Oh, and Gomez's vocal for that track? Laid down not in a fancy Hollywood studio but in Puth's bedroom closet amid a bunch of hanging shirts.
"That sounds creepy, but the acoustics were great," he said with a shrug.
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Still, Puth thinks the care he put into the album will help bring together the two sides of him floating around out there: the handsome Snapchat-era pop star and the hard-core music nerd with a head full of facts about John Coltrane and Neil Sedaka.
"Look, I like people recognizing me on the street and asking to take pictures," he said. "But it's honestly not about my ego. It fuels my creativity. Ten girls just came up to me? Wow. Now I want to make another song they can blast in their convertible.
