.CarlyRaeJepsen’s CallMeMaybe began in pieces, the fragments of the song living separately on other tracks before joining forces like a pop Voltron. Below, read about how the track came together & continued on to help shape the music of the 2010s
“I was like, ‘Is this a world I can play in? Does this feel like me still?’”that we feel most define the decade that was -- the songs that both shaped and reflected the music and culture of the period -- with help telling their stories from some of the artists, behind-the-scenes collaborators, label folks and industry insiders involved.
Jepsen’s “Call Me Maybe” began in pieces, the fragments of the song living separately on other tracks before joining forces like a pop Voltron. “The heart of the song started as the bridge, which was a verse of another song,” Jepsen recalls. One day, while she and co-writer Tavish Crowe were in her apartment on Alma Street in Vancouver working, she sang out, “But here’s my number, so call me maybe,” thinking that it was a pre-chorus for yet another song.
The finished product sounded like nothing Jepsen had ever done before. Gone were the acoustic guitars and barely-there percussion, replaced by electric strings and a whomping beat. “I did have reservations,” she says. “I was like, ‘Is this a world I can play in? Does this feel like me still?’” Her reticence was undetectable on the song. You could hear the giddiness emanating from Jepsen as she sheepishly suggested to a guy she had just met that he should take her number and “call me, maybe.
The song was first released in September 2011 in Canada, and at the time, Jepsen had only a third-place finish on Canadian Idol and a debut album under her belt, making her far from a household name. “I was waitressing when ‘Call Me Maybe’ started rising,” she says.
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