The more proper demos are done in the studio where you’re trying to put the idea together, when you’re trying to pick the right producer, and when you’re trying to get the label onboard. We really really really really really really liked hearing about all of it.Įditor’s note: This interview has been edited for brevity and clarity.ĭigital Trends: How do you usually do your demos? Do you sing them into your phone as voice memos and then go into the studio to work on them?Ĭarly Rae Jepsen: It’s different every time. Jepsen called Digital Trends (definitely) to discuss her songwriting process, her love of vinyl, and how one of her favorite songwriters of all time might approach covering Call Me Maybe. From the percussive glee of Run Away With Me to the perfectly cool ’80s vibe of the mega hit I Really Like You to the Purple Rain-like emotional tug of All That, Jepsen has taken her electro-pop roots to another level.
TION, Jepsen spanned the globe to co-write and co-produce a dozen songs with the likes of Sia, Peter Svensson (The Cardigans, Ariana Grande), Ariel Rechtshaid (Haim, Madonna, Major Lazer), and Rostam Batmanglij (Vampire Weekend).You need to be invested in the story of a song that also has great hooks in it.” “The songs had to be about the story and the emotion, the longing. “I wanted to make an album that had different layers to it,” she says. It would be easy to merely duplicate the formula of 2011’s ubiquitous Call Me Maybe, but Carly Rae Jepsen isn’t one for repeating herself. “You can never get it better than that first take.
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