Neither Taylor nor Matty have a connection to Charlie, who first broke into the mainstream again in 2015, and he was understandably caught off-guard by the shout-out.
Talking to Rolling Stone after the album was launched, Charlie recalled assembly a buddy for lunch who had heard an early leak of the album and informed him that Taylor talked about him. Charlie mentioned: “My mind instantly went to ‘Oh, like in an interview or one thing. That’s cool. I like Taylor Swift.’”
When he ultimately realized that it was in a track, Charlie ready to seek out out that it was faux. He remembered pondering: “I’m going to get up tomorrow and it was only a huge joke that somebody was taking part in on me as a result of somebody thinks I shouldn’t be a much bigger artist, so get the largest artist because the Beatles to say that I ought to be a much bigger artist. Ha ha ha.”
However when TTPD was launched, Charlie admitted that he “cried” when he heard the track for the primary time whereas brushing his enamel.
In a subsequent look on Right this moment, Charlie mirrored on the context of Taylor’s lyric as he admitted that he personally thought that he was already a reasonably large artist when the track got here out.
“Are you want: ‘Wait, I believed I used to be an enormous artist, Taylor?’” the hosts requested Charlie, to which he responded: “I believed I used to be a made artist,” earlier than rapidly including: “However I admire the praise, I take it as a praise.”