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But for Puth, who co-wrote the Furious 7 -closing ballad with DJ Frank E and Khalifa, what's most amazing of all is that he was even featured in the video in the first place. I was a brand new artist, I wasn't cool enough to be part of the franchise yet, I wasn't big enough, but I proved everybody who was close-minded wrong. Everyone on my record label stuck beside me and my management. I said, 'That's great. Your movie comes out in a week and I'm not gonna give you the song. Though Puth would not state to Billboard what artist Universal Pictures had originally wanted to sing "See You Again," earlier this year he told People his vocals on the hook had originally been recorded as a reference possibly for Sam Smith. Mike Knobloch, president of film music and publishing at Universal Pictures, denies Smith was ever discussed for the track. By strong-arming his way onto the song, Puth helped launch his career in a big way, as it was only his second single released on a major label and went on to top the Hot chart for 12 weeks.
Are you the only songwriter you know?
Inspired by the death of actor Paul Walker. Though, between you and me, in the back of my mind I also secretly wanted to be an artist, but I thought the best way to go about that was to write songs first. When we wrote the song it was so powerful, just crazy human interaction. We sent it to them and they loved it, they got Wiz Khalifa on it, and the rest is history.
It was hardly a special invitation. Puth was one of more than 50 songwriters — many of them well known — who were asked to submit suggestions for the soundtrack. Only a small handful would be chosen. As it turned out, they would. Their work paid off.