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Charlie Puth Reacts to Taylor Swift Shout-Out: ‘I Just Cried’


Charlie Puth felt all the emotions after learning Taylor Swift name-dropped him on her new album, The Tortured Poets Department. Puth, 32, said he received a call from a friend who had heard a leak of the album before its official release on April 19. “My brain immediately went to ‘Oh, like in an interview…

Many fans speculated that much of Taylor Swift’s new album, The Tortured Poets Department, would be inspired by her split from Joe Alwyn — and they weren’t completely wrong. On “The Tortured Poets Department,” Swift, 34, sings: “You smoked then ate seven bars of chocolate / We declared Charlie Puth should be a bigger artist.” Puth premiered his new song, “Hero,” on Friday, and publicly thanked Swift for inspiring him in an Instagram post announcing the single on Tuesday, May 21.

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