“He played a chord and I was like, ‘this might be the best chord I’ve ever heard in my life’”: PinkPantheress on the pop star who she says is like “AI in a person, musically”, and has also been praised by Taylor Swift and Elton John

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If Jeff Beck was ‘the guitarist’s guitarist’, then it seems that Charlie Puth might be ‘the pop star’s pop star’.

Previously praised by Taylor Swift - who, in the title track from 2024 album The Tortured Poets Department, declared that “Charlie Puth should be a bigger artist” - and Elton John, who said that “there is an inner Stevie Wonder in this man”, Puth has now been namechecked by PinkPantheress, who recently revealed his uncredited contribution to Angel, the song she created for the Barbie movie soundtrack.