Speaker 1: Hi charlie, how are you doing?
Speaker 2: I'm good. I'm feeling good right now. I'm like, I
Speaker 2: got my head on a pillow, everything relaxing. I get
Speaker 2: to talk to jean life is good.
Speaker 1: You look super duper comfy. I love that you were
Speaker 1: in Singapore for your voice notes tour back in 2018
Speaker 1: pre covid days. Do you remember much about your time here?
Speaker 2: I do. I remember I stayed in a hotel which
Speaker 2: had a lot of layers to it. It was very
Speaker 2: architecturally impressive hotel right on the water. And I remember
Speaker 2: it was ridiculously hot and humid.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's pretty much the same thing now,
Speaker 2: is it Right now?
Speaker 1: It is.
Speaker 2: But I remember that show. I love, it's one of
Speaker 2: the finest memories on the voice notes store. I also
Speaker 2: just can't believe it's been four years crazy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So congratulations on a light switch. It just dropped
Speaker 1: what a bop it is. Um, I know it's been
Speaker 1: out for months on Tiktok
Speaker 1: and you documented the whole creation process and the fans
Speaker 1: got involved as well. What made you decide to do that?
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, I haven't put, I hadn't put out
Speaker 2: an album or a song for that matter in such
Speaker 2: a long time that I just knew that it was
Speaker 2: going to take me a long time to actually make
Speaker 2: the song. So I just figured why not just take
Speaker 2: them along for the ride and see the, the progress
Speaker 2: of it all. I kind of inadvertently made them feel
Speaker 2: like they wrote the song with me, which is just
Speaker 2: a great thing.
Speaker 1: I just saw the video last night, loved it. I mean,
Speaker 1: I think I see charlie Putin like a totally different light.
Speaker 1: Um it feels like you're lighter and having fun with everything.
Speaker 1: Is that how you're feeling about things right now? Your music?
Speaker 2: I am and I'm glad you noticed that too. My
Speaker 2: whole motto for this album that's coming out and with
Speaker 2: light switch, it's clearly shape as it is just to
Speaker 2: truly be myself. I almost want to overshare, I want
Speaker 2: to share all the songs that are coming out on
Speaker 2: the album. I want to show share everything that's going
Speaker 2: on in my life and I don't want to be
Speaker 2: so precious and hold on to things for so long
Speaker 2: and I just want to fill them in on everything.
Speaker 2: I'm like the anti artist right
Speaker 1: now. I was watching you on your livestream last night
Speaker 1: before the video played out and you look like you
Speaker 1: just woke up. I mean, I love this chill side
Speaker 1: of charlie. I mean, I'm digging it,
Speaker 2: thank you. I mean, the hair is long, I'm relaxing
Speaker 2: on a pillow. I think a lot for a long
Speaker 2: time in my career. I was very buttoned up and
Speaker 2: uncomfortable and I just, I don't know, I don't want
Speaker 2: to be that anymore. I want to be truly me
Speaker 2: and light switches a quirky song. I'm a quirky person.
Speaker 2: I'm very musical song, which I considered myself to be
Speaker 2: that as well. So light switch. The song is me
Speaker 2: as a song.
Speaker 2: It's my personality wrapped into a song.
Speaker 1: Now you're known as the guy who pretty much can
Speaker 1: make music out of any sound that you hear. Is
Speaker 1: there something out there that you haven't used that's going
Speaker 1: to inspire the next song or something or that you're
Speaker 1: just going to pull out of somewhere?
Speaker 2: I haven't thought of it. You know, I didn't, when
Speaker 2: I made light switch, I didn't think that it was
Speaker 2: gonna be a light switch. I, I just knew that
Speaker 2: I wanted a sound effect in the song because I um,
Speaker 2: I hadn't heard a sound effect used in a pop
Speaker 2: song in a really long time. And then I saw
Speaker 2: the light switch and I was like, oh, I'll turn
Speaker 2: me on like the lights with and then, and then
Speaker 2: not just stupid but fun. I don't know, I can't
Speaker 2: think of it, but I definitely do want to use
Speaker 2: more sound effects and music.
Speaker 1: Can you tell us anything about this new album coming
Speaker 1: out later this year? I, I know you talked about
Speaker 1: the fact that it's your most vulnerable work ever. Can
Speaker 1: you share anything else for the fans?
Speaker 2: I'm going to call it Charlie. It has 12 songs
Speaker 2: and there are songs that you've heard on Tiktok that
Speaker 2: are absolutely on the album. There's a song called her
Speaker 2: that's hilarious, tears on my piano loser. There's a first
Speaker 2: time for everything. These are all songs that I've teased
Speaker 2: on Tiktok that
Speaker 2: I will put on the album. And if you would
Speaker 2: have told me two years ago that I just ran
Speaker 2: off a bunch of names, uh, with, with jean on
Speaker 2: the radio showing like about all my songs. I would have,
Speaker 2: I would have not believed me because I would've been like, oh,
Speaker 2: I have to not tell my fans until the album
Speaker 2: is out and they and and surprise them.
Speaker 2: Everybody. I want to fill everybody in early.
Speaker 1: Nice. It's refreshing. It's fun for us to on the radio.
Speaker 1: We can talk about it. We can, we can sell
Speaker 1: all we want about charlie and we know some information
Speaker 1: about you right now about the new album.
Speaker 2: I might give you my social security number.
Speaker 1: Hey, where are we finding you right now? Like what's
Speaker 1: your state of mind right now? I know you're, you know,
Speaker 1: you're happy the songs out, the video is out. What
Speaker 1: else is happening with you and how are you feeling?
Speaker 2: I don't want to jinx it, but it's the highest debut.
Speaker 2: These numbers are insane. I haven't, I've never seen numbers
Speaker 2: like this on a song of mine. So I don't
Speaker 2: want to, there's wood near you, knock it because I
Speaker 2: don't want to jinx it. But it's going really well.
Speaker 2: Thank you very much. Thank you jean. It's going, it's
Speaker 2: going well right now and I just wanted to continue
Speaker 2: to go well and I want to, I'm in the
Speaker 2: mode of wanting to inspire people musicians and non musicians alike.
Speaker 2: I just want everybody to make music and art. And
Speaker 2: I just feel like, especially here in the States that,
Speaker 2: that's not really embraced enough. So I want to be the,
Speaker 2: the reason and poster child for all that.
Speaker 1: Love it. And I just read a little article about
Speaker 1: you helping out this. I think this kid that wanted
Speaker 1: to go to Julia and
Speaker 1: you know, and that's, that's great charlie. You're using your
Speaker 1: influence to sort of encourage as well.
Speaker 2: Well that was his name was axel And you know,
Speaker 2: like we all do. I was scrolling on Tiktok and
Speaker 2: he was crying and I hate seeing people cry and
Speaker 2: be sad. But it's one of the great things about
Speaker 2: Tiktok where you can be super vulnerable. It's not like
Speaker 2: it used to be, where everything had to be faced
Speaker 2: tuned and super buttoned up everywhere,
Speaker 2: pretending everybody's really showing their true side. And I was
Speaker 2: just like, man, you don't have to worry that you
Speaker 2: didn't get into one school, you're well on your way
Speaker 2: to amassing a huge following. And something else that rejection
Speaker 2: is just another beautiful thing that will lead you to
Speaker 2: somewhere where you didn't even think you'd be,
Speaker 1: do you have any messages for the Singapore fans who
Speaker 1: have just been waiting with bated breath for a new
Speaker 1: music from you. And it's finally here, go ahead.
Speaker 2: Singapore fans. You're not going to wait four years anymore.
Speaker 2: You're not not waiting five months for a single to
Speaker 2: come out. I'm sorry about that. But the lights which
Speaker 2: needed to sound perfect. You're going to get a whole
Speaker 2: album from me this year and God willing. I'm going
Speaker 2: to see you in person and it's going to be
Speaker 2: 10 times as electric as it was in 2018. Connection
Speaker 2: is going to be even
Speaker 2: stronger and I love you all and I just can't
Speaker 2: wait to see you.
Speaker 1: Excellent. What a nice catch up charlie. I wish we
Speaker 1: had like an hour to just sit back and kick
Speaker 1: back and relax.
Speaker 2: Very fun to talk to. I appreciate the nice questions
Speaker 2: and it's nice to catch up with Singapore.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we can't wait to see you over here sweating
Speaker 1: it all out with us and I'm putting on a
Speaker 1: great show.
Speaker 2: I love it. I'll definitely be sweating.
Speaker 1: Thank you charlie. Best of luck with everything stays safe. Yeah,
Speaker 2: thank you. You too. Thanks for the interview