Charlie Puth Says He Lied About The Meaning Of His Song 'Mother'

Charlie Puth walks back to his waiting car after an early morning interview in New York City on Tuesday morning (November 5).

The 27-year-old stopped by a radio station to chat about his recent music.

In another recent interview with NEW 102.7, Charlie revealed the actual meaning behind one of his newest songs, “Mother”.

“I was kind of lying about what the true meaning of the song was, but I will say I was in an interesting position several years ago,” Charlie shared. “The song is about an outside perspective, people watching in on a relationship and not knowing that it’s secretly crumbling from the inside. It’s actually not working out, but from a distance, it looks great and flawless, but if your mom only knew that it wasn’t actually working out at all.”

He adds, “It actually started to change my personality too. But you have to learn from experiences like that to get to where you are now. But I’ve disguised it in a very happy sounding song.”

Charlie did apologize to fans for not telling the complete “truth about the meaning of the song. Whenever I write these things I get a little freaked out because usually someone gets tagged to the meaning of the song and I didn’t want it to be about that. But I’m thinking to myself, ‘why am I being like that? I literally wrote the song, I should be honest about what the meaning is.’”