Left Right Left

Album: Nine Track Mind (2016)
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  • Charlie Puth explained the song's meaning to AT40: "'Left Right Left' is literally just about moving on, as referring to my feet. Left foot, right foot, I forget what movie I was watching, but I thought of lyrical concepts that just would be dope, would be just simply moving on, don't live in the present, don't think about the future, or dwell on the past."
  • Puth wrote this with DJ Frank E, the man who has produced several of Flo Rida's biggest hits.
  • This is an entirely different song to Charlie Puth's 2022 collaboration with Jungkook, "Left And Right," which refers to the left and right brain hemispheres. "Left Right Left" refers to a marching cadence.

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