“I wrote the song independently and then got to negotiate anything I wanted,” he says with a laugh. I respectable offers and I’m glad I did it that way instead of saying, ‘Give me $5 million right up front….’ The song had a lot of success, so I took advances as if had written a C+ song.”Īs for actually writing the Grammy-nominated song, as Puth has said in past interviews, it took him just 10 minutes.
“Your brain is an amazing thing when you allow it to relax on a July day in 2014,” he says. Puth wrote the song during a session with DJ Frank E that was set up by Atlantic during a sort of try-out week where the label flew Puth to Los Angeles to see if they wanted to sign him. He recalls being checked into a “crappy” hotel (“Because why would they put me in a nice hotel, who am I?” he says) but he was “way too bougie for that.” So he took his “YouTube money” and booked himself a week at the 5-star Montage in Beverly Hills.
“I had never been to Beverly Hills before and I was so enamored by Hollywood and all of its luxurious things and all of the Lamborghinis everywhere and I was in such a different world, I was Uber Black Car-ing everywhere, my mind jumpstarted and I felt like a famous songwriter,” he says. “I felt like Diane Warren and David Foster and I pulled up to the studio in my Uber Black Car that I pretended I had all day and I was like, I’m it! I kind of had to trick my mind into being really confident.”Ĭonjuring the loss of one of his own friends in a car accident two years prior, after 10 minutes it all amounted to Puth’s breakout hit.
Needless to say, he no longer has trouble conjuring confidence. “‘See You Again’ being such a universal song has allowed me to figure out my musical self. “It’s just amazing how ‘See You Again’ has allowed me to spread my musical influences all over the place.Wiz Khalifa Promises Mp3 Download Waptrick For Pc bit.ly/2f6eIpdĭ.-.Bad.Influence.-.SureLoaded It hasn’t corned me into, ‘Oh, he has to be jazz piano player who does pop music,’ or, ‘He has to be a ballad guy.’ It’s allowed me to take many shapes and forms in my music,” he says.