Charlie Puth | "I Used to Be Cringe"
Charlie Puth asked for incense before this interview started. He hears everything — the air conditioning, the school bell down the block, a note going slightly flat in a crowd of thousands — and a smell is the one thing he can't hear. He's been diagnosed with OCD, which he believes is inseparable from why he can make a record. It also means he circles the block before walking into a hotel lobby, and that a wrong sound can put him physically in his gut.
He didn't sing in front of anyone until he was 18. His father took a day off from construction work and sat in line with him for twelve hours to audition for America's Got Talent, where he told the judges he couldn't do it a cappella — he'd beatbox, he'd play piano, but not that. His mother, a Jewish woman teaching music in a Catholic school, wheeled a piano cart into rooms and quieted them with the Beatles. She's the reason he explains chord theory on the internet, a connection he makes out loud for the first time in this conversation, mid-sentence, and seems surprised by.
He talks with David Begnaud about the classical teachers who told him to stop using his ear, the early advice to manufacture feuds with people he'd never met, and the years he spent putting maybe forty-five percent of himself into his music. He's now released a song called "I Used to Be Cringe" that he found too embarrassing to finish for a year. The album arrives the same day his first child is due.
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The Person Who Believed In Me is hosted by David Begnaud, founder and CEO of Do Good Crew and often called "America's storyteller." In each episode, David sits down with world-class guests to ask one simple question: Who believed in you before the world did? Big names. Honest stories. Relatable takeaways. Different paths — same question.
David is also a CBS News contributor and host of the weekly segment Beg Knows America, which airs every Monday morning.
Host: David Begnaud
Guest: Charlie Puth
Executive Producers: Ellen Rocamora, Olivier Delfosse
Booker: Sully Bloch
Director of Photography: Foster Parks
Theme Music: Slipstream
Live Production Technician: Joseph Gabay & Will Whitley (Statik Creative)
Post-Production: Longwave Digital
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Charlie Puth asked for incense before this interview started. He hears everything — the air conditioning, the school bell down the block, a note going slightly flat in a crowd of thousands — and a smell is the one thing he can't hear. He's been diagnosed with OCD, which he believes is inseparable from why he can make a record. It also means he circles the block before walking into a hotel lobby, and that a wrong sound can put him physically in his gut.
He didn't sing in front of anyone until he was 18. His father took a day off from construction work and sat in line with him for twelve hours to audition for America's Got Talent, where he told the judges he couldn't do it a cappella — he'd beatbox, he'd play piano, but not that. His mother, a Jewish woman teaching music in a Catholic school, wheeled a piano cart into rooms and quieted them with the Beatles. She's the reason he explains chord theory on the internet, a connection he makes out loud for the first time in this conversation, mid-sentence, and seems surprised by.
He talks with David Begnaud about the classical teachers who told him to stop using his ear, the early advice to manufacture feuds with people he'd never met, and the years he spent putting maybe forty-five percent of himself into his music. He's now released a song called "I Used to Be Cringe" that he found too embarrassing to finish for a year. The album arrives the same day his first child is due.
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Thank you to Canva for believing in the power of storytelling and helping us bring this podcast to life: https://canva.com
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ABOUT THIS PODCAST:
The Person Who Believed In Me is hosted by David Begnaud, founder and CEO of Do Good Crew and often called "America's storyteller." In each episode, David sits down with world-class guests to ask one simple question: Who believed in you before the world did? Big names. Honest stories. Relatable takeaways. Different paths — same question.
David is also a CBS News contributor and host of the weekly segment Beg Knows America, which airs every Monday morning.
Host: David Begnaud
Guest: Charlie Puth
Executive Producers: Ellen Rocamora, Olivier Delfosse
Booker: Sully Bloch
Director of Photography: Foster Parks
Theme Music: Slipstream
Live Production Technician: Joseph Gabay & Will Whitley (Statik Creative)
Post-Production: Longwave Digital
CONNECT WITH US:
The Person Who Believed In Me:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/believedpodcast
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