And for a fortnight, there we were—waiting for Charlie Puth to speak now.
The "Attention" singer certainly caught Taylor Swift's when she name-dropped him in the title track of her April 19 album The Tortured Poets Department, singing, "You smokеd, then ate seven bars of chocolate / We declared Charlie Puth should be a bigger artist."
Now, Charlie has addressed the shoutout at long last.
"These last couple weeks have been really crazy for obvious reasons," he wrote in a TikTok video May 3, "but I wanted to share something with you."
The 32-year-old explained that the love online has given him the encourage to release a song that he wrote about a friend called "Hero."
"Sometimes I get a little nervous being overly honest in my music which is why this was sitting on my hard drive for awhile," he continued. "But I think someone out there was giving me a sign that I needed to release it."
And in a cute nod to Taylor's lyrics, Charlie added, "So… I Declare 'Hero' will be out everywhere on May 24th as the first single of my new album. Thank you for your support…you know who you are."
@charlieputh Thank you
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Charlie—who got engaged to Brooke Sansone in September—went on to play a snippet of the song, crooning, "Oh, I don't need a hero but if you let me stay / Oh, I can still be here every night and day."
As for Taylor's lyrics? Read on to decode more of her Tortured Poets Department songs.