Song writing process, new music, BIC campaign

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Peel the perfect terrain of Charlie Puth, nine multi-plain singles and 35 billion career streams, and you have a guy who lives and breathes music with all my heart.

The singer, the songwriter and the producer catches up The Hollywood Reporter About what he worked on, Life on the Go (he goes back and forth between Los Angeles and New York) and his very appropriate partnership with Bic Pens (he edits all his words). He also breaks down his creative process, the essentials behind the scenes and what he expects most in the coming months (index: this implies new music).

Jumps. Tell me about your song writing process. Is it always the same or different depending on where you are in life or what you write?

I mean, it’s different everywhere because life is different every day. I will write different survey music depending on the location. I remember wrote “We are no longer talking” to the Philippines, and it was a very hot day. It was probably 100 degrees… Fahrenheit, not Celsius (Laughter). I saw palm trees, and I said to myself very simply: “I’m going to make a song that looks like a vacation, sounds like a vacation.” It is before the words were written, of course.

And then, “Light Switch”, the song that I published in 2022 was the result of my locked in the studio because of post-comfortable times, and I wanted something optimistic and fast to move forward because nothing at that time was. I wanted to do something that excited me.

Can you develop your physical writing process?

I write the words. I never type words on my phone or a computer. It looks like the song is not a song if I type it – it needs my personality. It’s just something mental. BIC produces a product that I literally use every day of my life to make music: the 4 -colored pen. The different colors will trigger different parts of my musical spirit. So I take it on tour. I take it in planes. I take it wherever I go. If I don’t like a word, I will use the red color to scratch it. Red is bad. Green is my favorite color. Green means going. It is generally a good word.

Apart from your pen, what are your essential travel items?

I am a really basic traveler. Bose headphones. I have my iPad. I have my neck pillow. And there is this little pocket synthesizer by teenage engineering that I use. I have never saved with it, but it’s like small brips and beeps … I write what could be ideas about it.

Lateral note: I just noticed that your zoom name is “Musicrocks1991”.

Yes, you can also write this in the article because music does rock.

I fully write this in the article. Ok, so we have traveled, but do you have essential elements behind the scenes?

Several notebooks and pens. I must also have a small keyboard behind the scenes because I have the impression that sometimes I cannot speak. And if I have to meet a few people before going on stage, I’m just going to sit behind the little keyboard and play things while I speak and I have the impression that the words will go out more easily. It actually helps me to converse better. I don’t know what’s wrong with me.

It’s such a creative thing to say.

Yes. I heard people describe to me as creative. (Laughter.)

What do you think is the best advice you have ever received that you would give to a budding artist?

The best advice I have ever received was not to think too much about things. Do not go back to the voice of a pile of times. Do not rewrite the script. Whatever your intestine, do it. Several people I wanted to tell me that, and that’s what I would continue to spread.

How do you know when you’ve finished with a song?

This is a good question. When there is nothing left to add to the song, or when you try to add things and that does not change it at all. There is a song that I wrote entitled “That’s hilarious” in 2022, and it is a very simple production, and I listened to it when I thought: “It’s too simple; he needs a guitar.” I add it. He feels out of words. “Okay, well, he doesn’t need a guitar. Maybe he needs another Hi-Hat.” I add it. It’s weird. It seems annoying now. When I remove it, it was much better. I guess when you start to add things and have the impression that the cup has been filled, that’s how you know when you finish with the song.

What else are you working on at the moment? What are you excited in the coming months?

I am enthusiastic about music in general. I can’t share when, but I plan to put music soon. And when he gets out, I have the impression that many question points will answer. [There will be] Many things that I have not sung. Life for me is very different from what it was 10 years ago when “a call next door” or “go again” is out, so there are things to say.

And I am constantly inspired by my environment, both musically and another world, and I just hope, I hope I can do it for the rest of my life.