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Singer-songwriter Carly Rae Jepsen dishes about unreleased albums, favorite deep cuts, and her life-changing breakout hit, "Call Me Maybe."
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00:00Release the album!
00:01Oh shit, do people get their own lyrics wrong?
00:04Carly Rae Jepsen, singer of pop music.
00:12Hot night, wind was blowin',
00:14where you think you goin', baby?
00:16You know, funny thing, this probably called me maybe.
00:21Fun fact, out of all of the songs on my roster
00:24that I forget the words to, it's this one.
00:28I think I dissociate, I think I've sung it so many times
00:32that I go to a different place.
00:34I'm really happy though that everyone knows the words
00:36so I can turn the microphone if I've lost where I'm at
00:40and then I just, I lock right back in.
00:42It's how I get by.
00:45This song is what brought me to Los Angeles.
00:47It really changed my life because I was looking
00:50for a way to break out of Canada
00:52and this was sort of my entry point in.
00:54And it's sort of the gift of my life
00:57that this song happened in a lot of ways
00:59because it allowed me to make my mark
01:01and start making some other music
01:02that I was really excited to make as well.
01:05And I look back at it with like kind of nostalgia
01:07and fondness and it's always like a high
01:08like little fun point in the set.
01:10But it is a song that I forget the words to.
01:14Oh, toss, oh that felt good.
01:16Toss it.
01:17All right.
01:19I want you, do you want me, do you want me to.
01:22This is from I want you in my room.
01:25Do you want me, do you want me to.
01:27Oh shit.
01:28Sorry, do people get their own lyrics wrong?
01:31I thought I want you in my room and I just went there.
01:33The girl wants a lot of things.
01:35Okay, redo it.
01:36This is from I really like you.
01:38Shit.
01:39It's been a hot minute.
01:40Tom Hanks.
01:41Do you want me, do you want me to.
01:43This is why, I don't know what it is,
01:45he sang the song in the video.
01:46So I lean on him for this one.
01:48Tom Hanks is an interesting story.
01:50When we were thinking about I Really Like You
01:52as the first single, I was like,
01:54all right, it's a very on the nose song.
01:56I want to like kind of switch up what the visual would be.
01:59In my dream, we have like Bill Murray would like sing it
02:02or somebody like that, that would be amazing.
02:04Do you know that Bill Murray has a hotline?
02:06Well, I called his hotline.
02:08Cause I was just like, why not?
02:10I'll try.
02:10And he picked up cause he thought I was his Uber driver.
02:14He was like, who is this?
02:17And then I was like, it's Carly Rae Jepsen.
02:20I am the singer of pop music.
02:23We set up the second phone call.
02:25He was like, I'm still interested.
02:26I don't know what my schedule is maybe,
02:28but my manager at the time was at a dinner with Tom Hanks.
02:31And Tom was like, well, I want to do it.
02:34I got a phone call that night being like, you know,
02:36Bill Murray's still on the fence, but like Tom heard about it.
02:38He likes that he's in.
02:39And I was like, are you kidding me?
02:41On the day of, I got a call.
02:43And my team was like, so Justin Bieber heard that Tom Hanks and
02:48you were doing this video.
02:49Can he be in it too?
02:50I was like, hell yeah.
02:52Like, like, let's just go.
02:53And there was one really wild moment of my life where I was singing with Tom Hanks to my
02:57right and Justin Bieber to the left.
02:58And we were dancing down, you know, the middle of New York.
03:02I'll be your sinner in secret when the lights go.
03:04I'm going to take it slow because I've messed up.
03:07So this is from Run Away With Me.
03:13I kind of got like launched into this experience with Common Maybe and then I wanted to make
03:18an album that just like felt like why I liked pop music.
03:22I kind of found my entry point with the 80s because it's so hard on your sleeve and it's
03:26so maybe nostalgic and exciting and I wanted to like put my own spin on that era.
03:31It was really exciting to sort of see it start to find its following.
03:35All right.
03:37You know you're just my type and your eyes are lock and key.
03:41You know you're just my type and your eyes are lock and key.
03:45This kiss.
03:46You're just my type.
03:48My type back then was probably like living for the experience.
03:51Like I was all for the song and the story.
03:54So probably not a really good type was what I was after.
03:58Somebody who looked like Bad News, that was my type.
04:01Not my type anymore, thank God.
04:03But that was my type.
04:06Freaked out, dropped my phone in the pool again.
04:09This is from Owl City's Good Time.
04:15The video for that was like a pretty crazy thing because I didn't actually have my driver's
04:20license and they told me to like drive across this Fiat on the highway of New York while
04:25singing the song like in fast time with like actual extras in the background and I was fearful
04:31for their lives along with my own.
04:33I do drive now.
04:34I can drive now.
04:35And I could drive then.
04:37I just, it had been a hot minute and I did not have a license.
04:40And I told everyone on my team that after the video was shot.
04:44So really no one's fault but my own.
04:46Okay.
04:47Okay.
04:47Soft rain.
04:48We roll the windows down.
04:49Sweat disco all night.
04:52Oh God.
04:53What if I don't know what song that's from?
04:56Soft rain.
04:57We roll the windows down.
04:58Sweat disco.
05:00Disco sweat.
05:01Disco sweat.
05:02No.
05:03That does not sound like footage at the film.
05:06Soft rain.
05:07Soft rain.
05:08We roll the windows down.
05:11Soft rain.
05:13We roll the windows down.
05:14Everything he needs.
05:15He needs me was what they, where we, yeah.
05:19Okay.
05:19I remember Popeye.
05:21I can explain.
05:23Oh, this is one of my favorite songs and I messed it up.
05:26Have you seen Popeye?
05:27We were obsessed with the idea of doing our own version of He Needs Me, which is an incredible
05:32song.
05:32Everything he needs is an offshoot of that.
05:34He needs me.
05:35He needs me.
05:36We just like went in basically and took that hook, tried to make it a bit sexier and then
05:43made a story about it.
05:44Anyways, you should see that film.
05:46It's fabulous.
05:46Is it true you have an unreleased album called Disco Sweat?
05:50Okay.
05:51Let's clear the air.
05:54We have a lot of songs in the vault.
05:58I don't have a vault.
05:59It's just songs that I have that I haven't released.
06:02But one of the things that I was interested in was kind of embracing a bit of like disco
06:06at some point.
06:07It didn't form into a full album, but is there an album's worth somewhere?
06:12Absolutely.
06:12The idea that it's like an actual album that I just killed.
06:15I haven't done that.
06:16I don't know if a version got leaked or something, but we've been pressured ever since from everyone
06:21to be like, release the album!
06:24And we're like, okay.
06:25If you don't care about me making love to myself back on my beat.
06:34This is just about having a good time on your own if you must.
06:40I had been actually single for a hot minute and I was traveling a lot because I was on
06:45the road.
06:45So I was like living not in home and more in like hotel rooms.
06:49I loved the idea of embracing, you know, having a good time on your own.
06:54Whatever that may look like.
06:57I want to be more than friends for the week.
07:00This is from On Wired.
07:05I had a fantasy I was in New York.
07:07I was kind of like chasing a man and it was very much like I want you.
07:11But then I shot the video and I was like, I think I was six months pregnant.
07:16So I was like, this does not work anymore.
07:18It's confusing.
07:18It seems like I'm chasing a man for child support or something.
07:23So I switched what I was doing in my mind and I want to be more than friends for the
07:28week is more of a sentiment of I want a serious relationship.
07:31I want all the things.
07:32It's a two sided album, Day and Night.
07:34Day is very much this dreamy, folky, psychedelic pop thing.
07:41And then nighttime is a little bit a sound bath of kind of synths and kind of dancier things.
07:46The day and the night of it was a very clear way to distinguish what I was making and to
07:51show up to sessions with a bit more intention of like tonight we're doing day and this is what I'm
07:56feeling.
07:56Or like tonight we're going to do a night song.
07:59And so yeah, I can't wait for you to hear it.
08:01On second thought, I regret the pink stiletto.
08:05Whoa, you have really taken me down memory lane with this today.
08:08This is from Sour Candy.
08:11I regret the pink stiletto.
08:13I was doing The Walk of Shame and a pink stiletto for The Walk of Shame is a bad call.
08:20This is with Josh Ramsey from Marianas Trench, a Canadian band whom I've toured with many times in Canada.
08:25They showed me a version of what tour life was.
08:28I went to a lot of strip clubs.
08:29I was like, okay, this is wild.
08:31We went around.
08:32We had a good time.
08:32I was like one of the boys.
08:34At this time it was like before anything had popped off from me.
08:37So I was like driving in my little like soccer mom van with all of the gear in the back
08:41and the merch that like my mom and I made.
08:44And I would be singing and then I would be like having one eye on the merch so no one
08:47would like steal my shit.
08:48Because it was crazy.
08:50It's crazy times.
08:51But you know what?
08:52It makes me grateful for where I am today big time.
08:55I do miss this little merch of the like mini harmonicas that I made though.
08:58I strung those together myself.
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