Carly Rae Jepsen

Canadian popstar and "Call Me Maybe" singer Carly Rae Jepsen talks her new album, touring Australia and the joys of songwriting.

And I do honestly think that as thrilling as it is to be on stage, I don’t think anything for me matches the thrill of when I’m unlocking a song that I’m really excited about.” “And I realised that to even get in the room for some of the labels in Canada, I would have to have some notoriety.” “I thought I was in a pretty good place, and I watched the show and I just broke out crying. But I’m gonna give you some sad songs, and some happy songs, and everything in between, and if you need to cry while dancing, then you just do that tonight.” I offer you a safe place to feel whatever it is you need to feel”. And this time I was like, what if the moon is sort of saying this is a safe space to feel whatever you wanna feel, or to escape — like, choose your own adventure. My friend Ben Romans and I are always like, do you want a song that makes you cry or a song that makes you dance? “I feel like when the pulse and the beat and the melodies all feel very light, but there’s a dark undertone, or vice versa … “So slowly but surely at a pretty young age, like I think age seven on, I started to sing publicly and I got such a thrill from it,” she says. [pop music](https://harpersbazaar.com.au/zendaya-says-she-does-not-know-whether-she-could-be-a-pop-star/), so I was almost making rules for myself that didn’t need to be there,” she admits. But since I was about four or five, I was in these two houses where the real thread between them was their passion for music,” she explains. “It makes me extra excited to come back and sort of see how they’ve taken on The Loneliest Time too.”