The ‘Attention’ crooner is notably mentioned in the title track of Swift’s new album, ‘The Tortured Poets Department.

It’s the reaction we’ve been waiting a “Fortnight” for—Charlie Puth has finally responded to being name-dropped on Taylor Swift‘s new album, The Tortured Poets Department. 

Puth, 32, began making headlines two weeks ago after Swift dropped the highly-anticipated new album, which mentions the “Attention” crooner by name in one of the songs.

In the title track, Swift sings, “You smoked, then ate seven bars of chocolate / We declared Charlie Puth should be a bigger artist.”

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While fans have patiently waited for Puth to react, he finally seemed to address the situation in a TikTok video shared on Friday, May 3.

“These last couple weeks have been really crazy for obvious reasons,” he said in the clip, without mentioning Swift or the new song by name. “But I wanted to share something with you.”

He then introduced his new song, “Hero,” which he said was previously “nervous” about releasing due to the vulnerability of the track.

“But I think someone there was giving me a sign that I needed to release it,” he wrote in an apparent nod to Swift, 34.

“So…I Declare ‘Hero’ will be out everywhere on May 24th as the first single of my new album,” the post continued in a seemingly blatant reference to the line in Swift’s song.

Puth further convinced fans that he was addressing Swift in the post by ending the video with the words, “Thank you for your support…you know who you are.”

In case you missed it, Swift previously mouthed the same words in a viral moment from one of her May 2023 Eras Tour shows in Nashville.

At the time, she was singing her song “cardigan,” and mouthed to someone in the audience—presumably The 1975 frontman Matty Healy, who was in attendance for the concert—”This is about you. You know who you are. I love you.”

Healy, the muse for “The Tortured Poets Department” and other songs on the album, had previously mouthed the exact words just days earlier during one of The 1975’s concerts.

Puth’s use of the phrase in his own TikTok seems to be a way of giving a subtle nod to Swift’s song, which is all but confirmed to be written about Healy.

And now Swifties can rest easy knowing that Puth has heard Swift’s new song—and he seems to approve!