- [Charlie] I'm Charlie Puth
and this is How It Went Down.
How did How Long start?
It was summer, I was just about to go on tour
with my buddy Shawn Mendes and I put on Hall and Oats
and I heard (vocalizing)
I was like okay, I wanna make a record like that.
I called my buddy Mike Caren, who happens to be my A and R,
one of my A and R's, and I was on the phone with him,
and I was like wouldn't it be cool
if there was, like, a song
called How Long Has This Been Going On?
And each kick drum would be on the lyric.
(vocalizing)
I think I actually put it in F sharp minor first
(vocalizing)
and then he was like that sounds pretty good,
you should go record that.
I had one broken rocket speaker to produce this record on.
Every night after I would get off stage,
I just kind of built the track out even more
and I still want it to be, thematically, with a bass.
(vocalizing)
And my base player Dmitry came in and he had this sick pre-
like, this sick preamp and he plugged it in
and it sounded like bouncy.
(vocalizing)
It sounded like me walking with, like,
a big cup of coffee down the street.
(vocalizing)
Like, like Fat Albert or like Mickey Mouse
when he drops the piano.
It's just like (vocalizing)
Like bouncy.
I had basically the song all in my head
and it was just a matter of dissecting what was in my mind
and just pulling it out of my mind
and just putting it into prosols.
Computer.
♪ How long as this been going on ♪
♪ You've been acting so shady ♪