Charlie Puth shares Wham!-inspired Christmas single ‘December twenty fifth’
Charlie Puth has launched a brand new Christmas single ‘December twenty fifth’, impressed by Wham!’s basic ‘Final Christmas’. Take a look at the monitor beneath.
The 32-year-old New Jersey popstar has not launched a studio album since 2022’s ‘Charlie’, however did launch the only ‘Hero’ in Could this 12 months.
Now, he has shared his contribution to the 2024 festive season within the type of ‘December twenty fifth’, which opens with a pulsing synth line that’s carefully harking back to George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley’s classic 1984 single. Hear right here:
Talking concerning the monitor, Puth wrote: “I wrote and recorded ‘December 25’ utterly on a whim a number of weeks in the past in my studio whereas engaged on my new album, and although it sounds completely nothing like something on the album, I figured why not share it for the vacations. So right here you go.”
Puth made headlines earlier within the 12 months after being on the top of a shout out on Taylor Swift’s album ‘The Tortured Poets Division’.
On the report’s title monitor, Swift sings: You smoked then ate seven bars of chocolate / We declared Charlie Puth ought to be a much bigger artist.”
Puth responded to the track by thanking Swift and crediting her for uplifting him to write down “one of many hardest songs” he’s ever written.
“My new track ‘HERO’ is about while you see somebody you’re keen on hurting themselves, ruining the issues of their life which might be good, however you simply can’t save them. It’s one of many hardest songs I’ve ever needed to write, however I wrote it in hopes that you simply’ve gone by one thing comparable in your life, and that it will probably fill within the BLANK for you prefer it did for me.
“I’m very excited to share my subsequent album with you, particularly this track as a result of it’s an awesome illustration of what’s to return. I’ve by no means put out a track like this earlier than – it’s very completely different for me, however I need to thank Taylor Swift for letting me know musically that I simply couldn’t preserve this on my arduous drive any longer. Thanks to all of my followers – you’ll by no means understand how a lot you imply to me…”
The Web additionally reacted to the identify drop, with one person writing: “’We declared Charlie Puth ought to be a much bigger artist’ is actually the very last thing I assumed I’d ever hear Taylor Swift sing in a Taylor Swift track.”
This summer season, Puth additionally launched a single with Stray Youngsters known as ‘Lose My Breath’, which was stated to be a “warm-up” for an upcoming Korean album by the group.