Inspiration comes whenever you least count on it. Nobody is aware of this higher than Charlie Puth, whose signature candor just lately revealed particulars about his private life we by no means might’ve anticipated. In a June 13 dialog in Interview, the 31-year-old musician spoke concerning the lengths he is prepared to go to in pursuit of the right observe, admitting he as soon as took a break throughout intercourse to seize an sudden stroke of genius. “I wrote the tune in the course of the act,” he mentioned of his tune “Marks on My Neck.”

Puth added, “Possibly I ought to have centered on the act just a little bit extra, however the melody simply form of popped into my head and I truly had stopped and recorded just a little fast voice be aware after which needed to get again into the act.” (Who says chivalry is useless?)

Puth went on to elucidate the that means behind “Marks on My Neck,” which appeared on his self-titled album launched final 12 months. He additionally swore the story wasn’t as dangerous as it might initially appear: “That is the place that melody got here from. I used to be getting over anyone and what higher manner [to do that] than meet new folks? It in all probability wasn’t going to work out with this individual and that was what I used to be energetically choosing up, which is OK.” No love misplaced. Though, this seemingly wasn’t how Puth’s muse anticipated to seek out out that they had “energetically” impressed the tune to a pop hit.

“I keep in mind waking up and myself within the mirror, noticing these marks on my neck, and daily they’d heal and fade however so would the one who put them on me,” he continued. As for his former companion? “We went our separate methods.” Now, all that is left is his new sexually charged document and the data that, for Puth, his artistic course of comes first.