Well they say that music is an outlet and lovesickness is always a motivator to write outstanding songs. Within the recent pop industry, we have no doubt “We Don’t Talk Anymore” de Charlie Puth It is one of those roles that precisely comply with what was previously said.
The song was released in 2016 as part of the album Nine Track Mind and it immediately became a favorite on radio stations, video channels and went quite viral. Charlie at that time was an emerging artist –or something like that– and it was quite interesting see him put out a song with a more established star like Selena Gomez.
A heartbreak song like that seemed successful not only because of the voices that recorded it and the hurt lyrics that compose it. It’s fair to say that the name of Selena Gomez propelled the single somewhat, thanks to that incessant public derision that sparked by her publicized relationship with Justin Bieber.
Was Charlie Puth’s “We Don’t Talk Anymore” a song directed for the Canadian teen heartthrob? The show business liked to think so, despite the fact that the subject came up elsewhere and that Gomez is not its main composer. But in one way or another, there was some kind of influence from it that Puth himself revealed at the time. There goes the gossip.
El origen de “We Don’t Talk Anymore” de Charlie Puth
In an interview with MTV News, Charlie Puth revealed that he composed the first musical lines for “We Don’t Talk Anymore” while in Japan. The letter, for its part, was inspired by the breakup that a friend of his I was going through a love disappointment.
“I remember a conversation I had with my friend… He had just broken up with this girl, and I was like, ‘So are you going to talk to her anymore?’ And he said: ‘No, we don’t talk anymore’… I was trying to cheer him up, but it turned into a cool tune…”said Charlie Puth in those talks.
Selena Gomez’s relationship “We Don’t Talk Anymore” and the alleged romance with Charlie Puth
Charlie Puth, who was by then a rising stargot Selena Gomez to join him in this collaboration. “I met with Selena and she had a very public, back-and-forth relationship, and she could relate to the song and the lyrical sentiment”the singer told MTV.
Without saying the name, Charlie Puth was possibly referring in those statements to the aforementioned Selena Gomez relationship with Justin Bieber. But in contrast to Puth, Gomez was always tight-lipped about clarifying whether she felt the song was some sort of vent about her complicated bond with the Canadian.
On the other hand, with that tireless show business need to create controversy, the music industry began to speculate that Selena Gomez and Charlie Puth’s friendship was turning into something more sentimental. It was never fully confirmed, but in 2018 the singer gave an interview to Billboard where he implied that in the past he had had something with the also actress.
His statements were controversial, as Puth said that although it had been for a very short time, that relationship had a really hard impact on him. And that “We Don’t Talk Anymore” somehow felt like a way of dealing with the fact that Although he was in love with Selena, the latter was thinking of someone else (supposedly Bieber).
“(The song) is about a particular moment in my life, when someone very close to me wanted someone else’s attention. When I found that out and we finished it, I may have done some shady stuff as well, and she may have asked me, ‘How long has this been going on?’… The only way a song like that can seem real is if there’s something else going on behind the scenes, and that’s what was going on (with Gomez). Very ephemeral, very small, but very impressive. And she really messed me up… It wasn’t like I was the only person on her mind. And I think I knew what I was getting myself into
Charlie Puth a Billboard.
The denied love affair and a joke from Charlie Puth to Justin Bieber
Out there, there is even a video of Charlie Puth playing “We Don’t Talk Anymore” in some very intimate venue in Texas and he said in the middle of the song “fuck you, Justin Bieber”. Almost immediately when that video went viral, Puth came out with a public apology saying that this was all a joke.
Quite random the matter, since over the years Charlie Puth has worked as a composer for songs in which Justin Bieber does the voice. And even, in 2022 they played the subject of that insult again in a concert, pBut it was all another joke devised by Bieber with The Kid Laroi to troll Puth.
And what about his alleged relationship with Selena Gomez? As People magazine said at the time, an anonymous source said they were not out. What a dilemma with these pop music romances and bickering, right?
