Recalling the song “Attention” released in 2017, male singer Charlie Puth had a status on Twitter that was said to “slander” his former lover – Selena Gomez. 

In Charlie Puth’s tweet , the male singer revealed a truth about the song he released more than 5 years ago: ” Attention is a song about someone you know . ” Although Charlie’s status on Twitter was quickly deleted, there was still time for netizens to take screenshots and discuss who he was referring to in the song.

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Charlie Puth implicitly confirms Attention wrote about Selena Gomez?

The reason why netizens think that Charlie is “slapping” Selena Gomez is because the two had a great collaboration together in We Don’t Talk Anymore in 2016, when Charlie was said to have flirted with Selena. but was cruelly rejected by her. The owner of One Call Away also revealed that the song Attention is about a girl who took advantage of his feelings.

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Charlie Puth and Selena Gomez had a close relationship after “We Don’t Talk Anymore”.

One point that caught fans’ attention is that the MV for the song Attention was filmed at the same location as the MV for Selena’s song Hands To Myself . The male singer See You Again then shared that he cried while filming this MV because he had to recreate his “not very happy” memories.

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The filming location of MV Attention is similar to the location in Selena Gomez’s MV.

Also in the song Attention , Charlie insinuated that the girl was only taking advantage of him, but at that time, he really loved her: “You just want attention, you don’t want my heart” (roughly translated: I just want to receive get attention, I don’t need your heart) . Back in 2016, fans raised many speculations about the two singers dating, especially after Charlie and Selena’s performance in July of the same year.

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Charlie and Selena’s successful performance further fueled dating rumors.

Months before releasing the song We Don’t Talk Anymore , Selena and Charlie teased their collaboration by posting on Snapchat a video of them stuck in a car, at the same time as Justin Bieber – her ex. Selena started dating his current wife Hailey Bieber.

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Back in 2015, Selena posted a photo on Twitter claiming she and Charlie Puth were just friends.

Charlie Puth and Selena Gomez’s relationship began before they collaborated on the song We Don’t Talk Anymore . On Twitter, the founder of the Rare Beauty brand said that the two are good friends. However, it seems that Charlie Puth has plans to go further in this friendship.