Left And Right
by Charlie Puth (featuring Jung Kook)

Album: Charlie (2022)
Charted: 41 22
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Songfacts®:

  • This poppy post-heartbreak song finds Charlie Puth and BTS' Jungkook consumed by thoughts of their former lovers. The memories of their time together haunt the pair and they can't erase them from their minds.
  • Charlie Puth produced "Left and Right" himself and co-wrote it with his go-to writing partner Jacob Kasher Hindlin ("Attention," "How Long," "Light Switch"). "It's about me singing about the inside of my brain, how these memories will haunt me from the left side of my brain to the right side of my brain," Puth explained on the Elvis Duran Show.
  • This marks the first collaboration on disc between Charlie Puth and Jungkook. However, both artists shared the stage together when they jointly performed Puth's track "We Don't Talk Anymore" at the 2018 MBC Plus X Genie Music Awards in Incheon, South Korea.
  • Puth originally teased "Left and Right" as a solo track on February 25, 2022 via TikTok. Two months later, he tweeted about a dream where BTS featured on the song. Though that didn't come to fruition in its entirety, he nabbed Jungkook for the tune.
  • This is an entirely different song from Puth's 2016 track "Left Right Left." That Nine Track Mind song finds him more successful in moving on.
  • "Left And Right" is three chords, simple and fun, and not about anything really heavy. "I loved that dichotomy of how BTS' music is very well-produced, very crispy, very bright, and this song is the opposite," Puth told Apple Music. "Jungkook's voice is usually associated with big, bright, powerful K-pop chords, and putting it under that Red Hot Chili Peppers type of bass, grunginess - I really liked that combination."
  • Why Jungkook? "I was listening to it and I just felt like it called for having another person's perspective," Puth explained to Billboard Pop Shop podcast. "What if I featured an artist that maybe doesn't even speak English? And can pull it off in a way and emote the same thing we all feel?"
  • Puth's collaboration with the BTS star generated a lot of interest in the song, particularly in Asia. It reached #1 in India, the Philippines, and Vietnam.

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