Charlie Puth is giving thanks to a “hero” in his life, and it’s pretty easy to deduce the person in question is none other than Taylor Swift.
The “One Call Away” singer dropped a new single titled “Hero” on Friday, which appears to be in response to Swift’s lyrical callout of him last month in the title track of her latest album, “The Tortured Poets Department.” In that song, Swift sang in the second verse, “You smoked, then ate seven bars of chocolate / We declared Charlie Puth should be a bigger artist.
He then wrote the new song is “about my friend called ‘Hero,’” and that sometimes he gets “a little nervous being overly honest in my music which is why this was sitting on my hard drive for awhile.” “But I think someone out there was giving me a sign that I needed to release it,” Puth continued. “So… I Declare that ‘Hero’ will be out everywhere on May 24th as the first single of my new album,” he added, a lyrical nod to Swift’s declaration on “Poets.
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