NewYearsDayProject | a song a day blog

  Charlie , the third record from Charlie Puth , tells pretty much the same story as the previous two Charlie Puth records: the tales of being unlucky in love. The twelve tracks on the album come from a place of heartbreak, being used, and nostalgia for a good time in love. Musically, most of the songs are saccharine pop with Puth’s somewhat funk-inspired falsetto. Every record Puth has released has steadily raised in critical reception. Charlie holds an 81% on Metacritic ; his debut, Nine Track Mind , holds a 37%. Today we’ll look at the tracks that make up Charlie.  I am surprised at the difference in critical reception between the albums. Personally, I think that while his first albums lack maturity, the albums have more variety than the third record as we’ll see in more detail. “ That’s Hilarious ” kicks off the album with a heartbreak. Similar to Third Eye Blind ’s break-up hit “ Losing a Whole Year ,” Puth laments “You took away a year / Of my fuckin’ life.” The song is ironic in

  Every song on Charlie Puth ’s third record, Charlie , deals with heartbreak and rejection. “ Smells Like Me ” is no exception. The idea of the song, Puth revealed on Twitter, that the song is “about when you think of the person you were with for so long having sex with someone new but with they’re wearing clothes that smell like you still while they….” It’s a song about passive aggressive revenge, a hope that even though the romance is over, the two are still biologically linked for a time. The speaker of the song hopes that the scent he left on his former lover distracts her, though she’s moved on. Rather than pontificate on this theme more, I’d like to introduce my Heartbreak Mix to Apple Music. These break up songs might hit just right during one of those wrong times. Cheer up!