Charlie Puth says he was in disbelief after hearing Taylor Swift name-check him in a new song.

The We Dont Talk Anymore singer opened up about the surreal experience in a Rolling Stone interview published online Friday, and said he was having lunch when a friend called to tell him about the mention.

Puth said that his brain immediately went to Oh, like in an interview or something. Thats cool. I love Taylor Swift.

The friend had heard a leaked version of Swifts latest album, The Tortured Poets Department, in which she sings on its namesake song: You smokd, then ate seven bars of chocolate. We declared Charlie Puth should be a bigger artist.

Puth initially thought the song and name-drop mightve been generated by artificial intelligence, and expressed doubts about the legitimacy of the mention.

Im going to wake up tomorrow and it was just a big joke that someone was playing on me because someone thinks I shouldnt be a bigger artist, so get the biggest artist since the Beatles to say that I should be a bigger artist. Ha ha ha, he said.

But when the album came out and Puth heard that the mention was real, he said he just cried, dude.