Taylor Swift name-checked Charlie Puth and the internet is debating it
Taylor Swift shouts out her fellow singer-songwriter in the title track on her new album, “The Tortured Poets Department.”
“You smoked then ate seven bars of chocolate,” she sings in the love song. “We declared Charlie Puth should be a bigger artist.”
Puth, known for such hits as “One Call Away” and singing the hook on Wiz Khalifa’s “See You Again, is well-documented in his musical appreciation of Swift.
Not only has he been known to cover her songs while in concert, but in 2022 a video of him praising her musicality made the rounds.
Part of the fun of any Swift album release is dissecting her lyrics and the Puth reference has stirred the Swifties.
Puth and Swift share some connections beyond both being singer-songwriters.
But in 2018, amid speculation that his song “Attention” was about Gomez, Puth told Billboard
His hit 2016 single “We Don’t Talk Anymore” features Swift’s good friend Selena Gomez
who has long denied that she and Puth were ever romantically involved