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Charlie Puth is giving because of a “hero” in his life, and it’s fairly simple to infer the individual in query is none apart from Taylor Swift.
The “One Name Away” singer dropped a brand new single titled “Hero” on Friday, which seems to be in response to Swift’s lyrical callout of him final month within the title monitor of her newest album, “The Tortured Poets Division.”
In that track, Swift sang within the second verse, “You smoked, then ate seven bars of chocolate / We declared Charlie Puth must be a much bigger artist.”
On Friday evening, Puth posted about his new track – which might be akin to the other of a diss monitor – on Instagram, in a video clip displaying him lip-synching to the monitor.
In textual content pasted over the video, Puth acknowledged that “the final couple of weeks have been actually loopy for apparent causes,” however that now he had one thing to share along with his followers and followers.
He then wrote the brand new track is “about my buddy known as ‘Hero,’” and that generally he will get “a bit nervous being overly trustworthy in my music which is why this was sitting on my onerous drive for awhile.”
“However I feel somebody on the market was giving me an indication that I wanted to launch it,” Puth continued.
“So… I Declare that ‘Hero’ might be out all over the place on Might twenty fourth as the primary single of my new album,” he added, a lyrical nod to Swift’s declaration on “Poets.”
He wrote within the caption, “Thanks…you understand who you’re.”
Puth is well-documented in his musical appreciation of Swift.
Not solely has he been identified to cowl her songs whereas in live performance, however in 2022 a video of him praising her musical abilities made the rounds.
“Sidebar, this has nothing to do with something – Taylor Swift is the queen of a lot of these chords,” he advised attendees at his New York Metropolis live performance on the time, as he performed her track “Teardrops On My Guitar.”
CNN’s Lisa Respers France contributed to this report.