Charlie Puth says he once took a break midway through sex to record a song: 'I should have focused on the act a little bit more'

• Charlie Puth said he once paused an intimate moment so he could record a song on his voice notes.
• Speaking to Interview Magazine, Puth said he should've "focused on the act a little bit more."

Charlie Puth is so dedicated to the craft of songwriting that he once took a break during sex to record music.

The "Attention" singer, 31, told Interview Magazine that he came up with the melody for "Marks On My Neck," a track from his 2022 self-titled album, while he was in the middle of an intimate act.

"I wrote the song in the middle of the act," Puth said. "Maybe I should have focused on the act a little bit more, but the melody just kind of popped into my head and I actually had stopped and recorded a little quick voice note and then had to get back into the act. But that's where that melody came from."

Since the interview was published on June 13, Puth's sex-related revelations have gone viral. The quotes have been reshared by Twitter pop-culture accounts like Pop Base, allowing many users to give their reactions to the NSFW news.

"We should all know less about each other," one user responded in a tweet that has over 14,600 likes as of Saturday.

"That poor man/woman," another user wrote, presumably referring to the person Puth was with when he came up with the song.

"Most roundabout way to say you totally get laid ever," another commented.

Elsewhere in the interview, the singer was asked to shed light on what kind of music is on his sex playlist.

"It's usually Roy Ayers, Delegation's 'Oh Honey.' Sometimes it's just 'Blue in Green' by Miles Davis," Puth said, before adding that he is always drawn to one musical genre and avoids another altogether during intimate moments.

"But it's always jazz for me in any scenario," he said. "Never hip-hop. That feels like, too on the nose, like having Drake playing in the background."

Puth, who rose to fame after he was discovered by Ellen DeGeneres in 2011, is currently working on his next album, which he said is likely to be released next year.