Charlie Puth reveals the surprising reason he started TikTok Instagram: Charlie PuthCharlie Puth revealed his motivation behind uploading detailed videos on TikTok in an interview with Popcrush on YouTube, mentioning that he \u201cloves to teach.\u201d If you\u2019re on MusicTok \u2014 the section of TikTok that focuses on musical artists large and small \u2014 you\u2019ve likely come across Charlie Puth and his infamous videos where he details his life and progress creating music. Some of his most viral videos show the creator making a random sound, like a light switch turning on and off, and telling his viewers what music note the sound is. His detailed videos played a big part in the popularity of his single: Lightswitch. In an interview with Popcrush, Puth revealed his motivation behind uploading to TikTok \u2014 mentioning that his love for teaching is behind it. Charlie Puth explains why he uploads to TikTok In an interview on April 8, Popcrush host Lauryn Snapp asked Charlie questions regarding his upcoming album \u2014 and how TikTok helped him decide to self-title it. They went on to talk about TikTok, a social media platform where Puth has amassed over 16 million followers. The musician then revealed the motivation behind his consistent uploads. \u201cI\u2019ve always wanted to be a teacher. I feel like I\u2019m teaching [people my techniques],\u201d he explained. \u201cI think that my TikTok page is just me teaching people things, and I want to learn things as well. It\u2019s basically a food channel but without food.\u201d (Topic starts at 2:47) In the months leading up to the January release of Lightswitch, Charlie Puth provided constant video updates on the sounds and progress of the song. Popular producer Benny Blanco began uploading videos roasting the musician for taking so long to release the single. However, The Chainsmokers revealed on IMPAULSIVE that the whole interaction was staged, and the two are actually friends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Charlie Puth reveals the surprising reason he started TikTok Instagram: Charlie PuthCharlie Puth revealed his motivation behind uploading detailed videos on TikTok in an interview with Popcrush on YouTube, mentioning that he \u201cloves to teach.\u201d If you\u2019re on MusicTok \u2014 the section of TikTok that focuses on musical artists large and small \u2014 you\u2019ve likely […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}