Charlie Puth claims he was ghosted by Ellen DeGeneres’s file label.
The “See You Once more” singer, 30, spoke out on the newest episode of Rolling Stone Music Now, wherein he mentioned being signed to the eleveneleven file label in 2011.
“Not placing any blame on one particular person, however from a collective … all of the people who have been in that room, they only disappeared,” Puth instructed Rolling Stone. “I didn’t hear from anyone.”
However the pop star did not have something adverse to say about DeGeneres herself. In his interview, Puth addressed widespread claims that the speak present host is tough to work for.
“Individuals describe Ellen as impolite,” he stated. “I’ve by no means skilled that. Possibly she likes me.”
He additionally shared that he now does not thoughts that his early work with the label wasn’t ever launched, noting that he was fairly inexperienced at that juncture in his profession.
“I don’t understand how good they’re,” he admitted.
Puth is not the one artist to open up about working with eleveneleven. Greyson Likelihood, who rose to stardom after his YouTube-posted efficiency of Girl Gaga’s “Paparazzi” went viral in April 2010, additionally spoke out about his expertise working with DeGeneres. Final month, he instructed Rolling Stone he had “by no means met somebody extra manipulative, extra self-centered and extra blatantly opportunistic than her,” Yahoo Leisure beforehand reported. Likelihood additionally claimed DeGeneres “turned domineering and means too controlling” when it got here to issues together with his wardrobe.
“She would are available in and have a look at a rack, yell at stylists, berate folks in entrance of me and say, ‘That is what you are carrying on the present,'” Likelihood stated. “She was simply degrading to folks.”
With regard to Likelihood’s statements, Puth was fast to make clear that he did not witness the identical persona clashes. Nevertheless, he does agree there was poor administration inside the group, which left him in search of steering.
“We each have completely different experiences, me versus Greyson. However I do agree with him that nobody was current, definitely, after the creation of my first demo EP,” shared Puth, who’s again with a brand new album, Charlie, and a renewed sense of confidence.
“I noticed that I’m able to lots of issues, and making an album is one among them — and I’m gonna do that myself,” he stated. “I hope folks take heed to this album and notice how particular they’re, as a result of I noticed how particular I used to be.”
