C'est un bel hommage à son ami cependant...
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00:00 You probably know this.
00:01 Well, the story behind it is even more tragic than you think.
00:11 This song released in 2015 is known to be the soundtrack of Fast and Furious
00:15 and to pay tribute to Paul Walker, one of the main actors of the movie who died in a car accident.
00:19 But Charlie Puth, the song's author, didn't write it thinking about Paul Walker.
00:23 Three years earlier, in 2012, Charlie attends a music school where he made a friend.
00:27 One evening, he goes out with his friend and they share this special moment
00:31 where they sit down, it's night, they are under the stars, they talk about everything, nothing and also the future.
00:35 At that moment, Charlie's friend confided in him and told him that he was sure that one day,
00:39 Charlie would write a song that would be number 1 in the charts.
00:42 Unfortunately, three months later, a truck hit the scooter on which Charlie's friend was riding
00:48 and he died instantly.
00:49 On the day of his funeral, Charlie made a promise to himself,
00:52 he was going to write a song that would become number 1 to pay tribute to his friend.
00:56 A few years later, Charlie is in Los Angeles at the time of Paul Walker's death.
01:00 At that time, the directors of Fast and Furious wrote a new ending for the movie
01:04 and wanted a song to end it.
01:06 Charlie hears about it, sits down at the piano and in 10 minutes, crying, he composes See You Again.
01:11 He sends it to the director like dozens of composers at that moment,
01:14 but it's this one that was retained and that, when released, became number 1,
01:18 paying tribute to Paul Walker but also and especially to Charlie's friend who had predicted his fate.