Carly Rae Jepsen on How Marriage, Motherhood and the Joy of Pop Music Fueled Her Ambitious Double Album ‘Day and Night’: ‘I Knew What Colors I Was Playing With’

It sounds like an obvious approach, but Carly Rae Jepsen began working on her new double album “Day and Night” with a simple ethos: make the type of music she would want to listen to. “Like, what do I have to offer to the musical landscape right now?” the 40-year-old tells Variety over Zoom, just […] Carly Rae Jepsen reflects on how marriage, motherhood and the joy of pop music inspired her ambitious double album 'Day and Night.' It sounds like an obvious approach, but Carly Rae Jepsen began working on her new double album “Day and Night” with a simple ethos: make the type of music she would want to listen to.

“Like, what do I have to offer to the musical landscape right now?” the 40-year-old tells Variety over Zoom, just weeks before her sixth album released this past Friday. “And that began with how I always begin every project, which is, what am I attracted to? What music am I listening to that I love?” As evidenced by the album’s two-dozen tracks, split evenly between Laurel Canyon coffee pop and synth-glittered bops, “Day and Night” is an amalgamation of self-professed influences — a “mixed bag of chips,” she says — inspired by