When pop singer-songwriter Charlie Puth first started visiting Los Angeles within the early 2010s, he remembers touchdown at a home close to Mount Olympus with an unimaginable view. Although he‘d solely lately turn into a authorized grownup, he’d already constructed a following as a YouTuber, posting covers and singing intro songs for standard creators on the platform. That day in Laurel Canyon, he regarded out over the sprawling metropolis.
“And in a really like ‘Entourage’ means, I used to be like, I’ll stay right here in the future, and I’ll make it within the metropolis,” he stated.
In Sunday Funday, L.A. individuals give us a play-by-play of their very best Sunday round city. Discover concepts and inspiration on the place to go, what to eat and get pleasure from life on the weekends.
Quick-forward to right now, the Grammy-nominated hitmaker has charted 13 Billboard Scorching 100 songs, labored with everybody from Elton John to Selena Gomez and is taken into account underrated by essentially the most well-known pop star on the planet. As of this week, he additionally has his personal heavily-improvised six-episode comedy sequence, “The Charlie Puth Present,” the place the New Jersey-native parodies the absurdity of the leisure business.
“We poke enjoyable at that the egregious, unapologetic brokers saying, ‘You’ve offered hundreds of thousands of information, nevertheless it’s time to do a actuality present,’ ” he stated.
And up till a latest transfer to Santa Barbara, Puth fulfilled his dream of residing in Los Angeles, the place he nonetheless typically spends Sundays chasing caloric Valhalla and doing “the other” of his job so he “can stay sane.” Beneath, the “Hero” singer shares his very best Sunday in Los Angeles.
This interview has been calmly edited and condensed for size and readability.
7 a.m.: Rise and sweat
I’m waking up. I stroll down both Carla Ridge or run up Loma Vista, up in Trousedale [Estates], and get exhausted. That’s about an hour. Simply get an excellent sweat.
8 a.m.: One shake, two shake
I instantly cancel out that fantastic exercise with a giant breakfast burrito from Dialog [Cafe] and a date shake. However I’m not going to Dialog. I’m Postmating it and tipping my driver nicely.
I’m very hungry. I’ve simply run up an enormous mountain, so I’m consuming that and concurrently ordering the Paul Saladino uncooked shake from Erewhon. The meat one. I really like that shake. And I at all times get a bone broth from Erewhon, too. So the day hasn’t even began, and I’ve spent an absurd sum of money on ordered meals. I’m residing in La La Land.
9 a.m.: Pool hold
I take a bathe, and if it’s good out, I’m lucky sufficient to have a pool, and leap in that. Possibly see what a pair associates are doing.
10:30 a.m.: Group mind rot
I really like having firm over. I’ll name my good friend Adam, I’ll name my good friend Jeff, who works at my document label, and we’ll simply watch brain-rot TikToks.
You don’t need to know stuff that I present my spouse. Brooke [Sansone]’s, like: ‘I don’t even know what sort of response I can garner up for this.’ I’m trying at a meatball — and it has two eyeballs on it, like Stick Stickly from Nickelodeon. And it says “Meatball Martin is looking you.” And there’s a sound of like an iPhone ringing. And that’s the TikTok. My associates and I simply die laughing. [We can spend] simply, 9 hours [doing that]. We’ll begin to get complications from being on our telephones an excessive amount of.
I hope you weren’t pondering that, ‘Oh, I’m going up Runyon Canyon or Fryman Canyon, the place I’m going to the Getty. I’m going to Zuma Seashore. I’m going to the Greystone Mansion or I’m going all the way down to South Central and get some actually nice do-it-yourself brisket. Or we go to Woon on the East facet, Silver Lake after which at night time, dancing.’ I do know all these wonderful locations exist. I’m going to all these locations throughout the week. It’s simply Sunday, and so I simply need to be dwelling.
12 p.m.: Get him to the Greek
It’s Sunday, so we’re ordering Matū cheesesteaks in Beverly Hills. Proper on the dot at midday. It’s a scrumptious possibility for lunch. And if we’re feeling adventurous, we’ll take the automotive and go all the way down to Go Greek on Bedford [Drive] and simply get an after-cheesesteak yogurt. It’s an upscale frozen Greek yogurt place. It’s an area place and it’s actually good.
[Building a yogurt cup] begins wholesome, however then come the gummy worms and the chocolate chips.
3 p.m.: Mall crawl
I’ll placed on a bit of hat, some sun shades and we’ll run to the Westfield Mall down in Century Metropolis. We’re transferring gradual, a number of meals’s in us.
It’s the perfect mall ever. We don’t even purchase something. We simply stroll round. Strolling is such a reward after going by that insane parking storage to get into that mall. I identical to to be among the many individuals and never get observed and never have or not it’s a giant deal. It type of grounds me.
We’ll most likely keep there for like 45 minutes after which take the automotive to Silver Lake, the place the actual eats are at.
5:00 p.m.: The feast continues
We go to Burgers By no means Say Die. They’ve delicate serve too. I’ll get chocolate vanilla swirl with a facet of 4 burgers and cheese sauce. They’ve actually good cheese sauce there. I don’t know the way they do it. Truly, sure, I do. I understand how they do it. They fry their french fries in beef tallow, which is what McDonald’s used to do, and that’s why they style so crispy and good.
That’s once I take my hat off, as a result of we’re in Silver Lake, and also you see everyone doing the identical factor as me and my buddies. So we’ll simply eat that on the hood of the automotive.
7:00 p.m.: Artisanal Weight-reduction plan Coke and a film
Then we’ll, you recognize, we’re in L.A., so we’re driving so much. And if it’s not too traffick-y, which it shouldn’t be, we’ll hit the 405 and get off on the Palisades. And there’s truly a movie show within the Palisades Village. The very last thing I noticed there was “Tick, Tick… Increase!” with Andrew Garfield. [Sings “Come to Your Senses”]
They’ve actually, actually good Weight-reduction plan Coke there. It simply stays crispy. It’s means totally different than having it out of the can, more energizing than the bottle. It’s blended inside the machine. And it simply stays spicy. I drink Weight-reduction plan Cokes by the sleeve. It’s like, I’m a Pez dispenser of Weight-reduction plan Coke.
9 p.m.: Night snack
Since we’re on the West facet, we’d as nicely. If we’re nonetheless hungry, we’ll go to Eduardo’s [Border Grill], which is a very, actually fantastic burrito spot.
9:45 p.m.: Fourth dessert
Then we’re ending the night with extra ice cream. We’re going to the Bigg Chill in Westwood. I really like Los Angeles. Residing in Los Angeles modified my life. It additionally modified my weight.
Anyone studying this, you possibly can eat no matter you need in Los Angeles, you possibly can go to Matsuhisa. You are able to do your Nobu. You are able to do something you need, so long as you run up Loma Vista. That’s the way you burn the cals.
10 p.m.: Demo tape drive
After that, we’re driving round all the good homes in both Hancock Park or on Beverly in Beverly Hills, simply listening to demos. Numerous my associates are within the music business, so we’re simply listening to what songs are popping out, what songs they’re engaged on, what songs I’m engaged on. All my information are mainly blended within the automotive, even when the sound system is a bit of wonky, I nonetheless need to hear it on a automotive stereo sound system, as a result of that’s how persons are going to take heed to the music.
That’s the wonderful thing about L.A., is you could simply stay impressed, as a result of there’s creatives throughout.
I don’t know a ton about Hancock Park, however I do admire how the streets are type of an S-shape curve. And I did analysis on it in the future. Why are the streets like that? [It’s] so individuals don’t drive rapidly. That’s the way it was designed a very very long time in the past. They may have simply made the street straight, nevertheless it’s extra dramatic for the street to be an S-shaped curve, I suppose.
11 p.m.: ‘Toks and Sopranos
Anticipating that Monday goes to be a reasonably busy day, I attempt get again dwelling at like 11 to shine the night time off with some last-minute mind rot ’Toks. And say goodbye to my associates and watch “Sopranos” with my spouse. I feel James Gandolfini is among the greatest actors of our time. Could he relaxation in peace.
It’s a sequence that I can watch over and time and again, as a result of it’s based mostly on the place I’m from, New Jersey, so I really feel some type of affection in direction of it. It’s simply seeing the intro of Elizabeth, N.J., which is what you see whenever you land at Newark Airport and all of the factories. There’s one thing that’s simply very harking back to dwelling, although I didn’t stay on the manufacturing facility.
12 a.m.: Bedtime
I do my greatest to simply not have a look at the telephone, nevertheless it by no means works. I’m positive I get 30% much less nice sleep. However that’s an exquisite Sunday to me. Sunday stuffed with rest.
