"I wrote the song independently and then got to negotiate anything I wanted," he says with a laugh. Puth tells Billboard that writing the song led to his label deal with Atlantic Records and publishing deal with Artist Publishing Group. A couple years on he was signed to Ellen DeGeneres' eleveneleven label after the talk show host saw his cover video of Adele's "Someone like You," but "See You Again" is what helped elevate him to a mainstream level. Puth's career began as a teenage YouTube musician from New Jersey, posting comedy videos and acoustic covers. "īy strong-arming his way onto the song, Puth helped launch his career in a big way, as it was only his second single released on a major label and went on to top the Hot 100 chart for 12 weeks. "It was important to get it right and to make sure from all angles that it went out in the most high integrity way possible, which in hindsight that's exactly what we did," he says. "And after that exploration, we can look back and say that it went exactly the way that it should have. Ultimately, Knobloch says, they decided the song didn't sound right without Puth's voice. With that, came the at times "uncomfortable" debate about whether Puth - a then unknown 23-year-old artist - was the best fit for the Fast and Furious franchise, especially to be tasked with something as sensitive as honoring its star actor in this way. He explained that the studio's relationship with Puth began as a songwriter, with whom they worked closely to craft the song to excellently soundtrack the film's emotional sendoff to the late Paul Walker's character, but it wasn't until much later that he entered conversations about performing on the track. Knobloch confirmed with Billboard that other performers were discussed to sing on "See You Again," but insists that exploring various options was standard business procedure and not personal.
"I'm actually really good friends with everybody who didn't necessarily believe in me at first, I've worked on projects with them since then and everything is all good now but, you know, I had to prove myself." Though Puth would not state to Billboard what artist Universal Pictures had originally wanted to sing "See You Again," earlier this year he told People his vocals on the hook had originally been recorded as a reference possibly for Sam Smith. Mike Knobloch, president of film music and publishing at Universal Pictures, denies Smith was ever discussed for the track.
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Your movie comes out in a week and I'm not gonna give you the song.' And I hung up the phone and when I said that miraculously I was in the music video." "I'll never forget I ended up calling them from around this big conference table on the phone, and they were explaining the reasons why it was going to be sung by this artist and blah, blah blah, I'm not going to name any names, but. Everyone on my record label stuck beside me and my management. I was a brand new artist, I wasn't cool enough to be part of the franchise yet, I wasn't big enough, but I proved everybody who was close-minded wrong. "I wasn't supposed to be on the song I was only supposed to be a writer on the song. "I don't know if a lot of people know this, I wasn't supposed to be in the video," Puth tells Billboard. But for Puth, who co-wrote the Furious 7-closing ballad with DJ Frank E and Khalifa, what's most amazing of all is that he was even featured in the video in the first place. When Wiz Khalifa's "See You Again" music video featuring Charlie Puth dethroned PSY's "Gangham Style" as YouTube's most-watched video with nearly 3 billion views on Monday, it did so without having been a viral phenomenon, riding instead on emotional power and the influence of the Fast and Furious film franchise.
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