According to billboard.com, Charlie Puth recently spoke up about his experiences with Ellen DeGeneres’ record label during an interview on Saturday, October 8th. While speaking with Rolling Stone Music Now podcast promoting his latest album, Charlie, the singer spoke about being signe don to the talk show host’s new and now defunct elveneleven label in the early 2010’s after his cover of Adele’s “Someone Like You” with Emily Luther went viral online.
He compared his situation with that of Greyson Chance’s recent accusations of Ellen as being manipulative and opportunistic as a mentor. Puth stated, We both have different experiences, me versus Greyson, But I do agree with him that nobody was really present, certainly after the creation of my first, like, demo EP. I didn’t really hear from anybody after that. Not putting any blame just on one person, but from a collective, all the people that were in that room, they just [makes woosh sound] disappeared. But even then, I was fortunate enough to [get] a scholarship to Berklee, so I was able to fall back on going back to school, So it was a real blunder that it didn’t work out, but I went back to Massachusetts and continued my education.”
Puth also clarified that he doesn’t hold any ill will towards DeGeneres stating that, “People describe Ellen as rude. I’ve never experienced that. Maybe she likes me.” Puth’s latest album, Charlie, arrived on October seventh via Atlantic Records and contains the singles, “Light Switch,” “That’s Hilarious,” “Left and Right” featuring Jung Kook, “Smells Like Me” and “I Don’t Think That I Like Her.”
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