Call Me Maybe hitmaker Carly Rae Jepsen is the second of four cover stars to be revealed for the latest issue (Issue 69) of Notion Magazine. Ahead of the UK release of her upcoming new single ‘I Really Like You’, Rae Jepsen discusses her new music in an exclusive interview.‘I’m a cheesy, nerdy Broadway girl at heart’ laughs Carly Rae Jepsen as she discusses following up on her ‘Call Me Maybe’ success. She also talks about her new release ‘I Really Like You’, saying: ‘It’s a very flirtatious, adorable song’.

On why she chose a celebrity cameo for video of new single ‘I Really Like You’: ‘We felt like if we had a sickly sweet video it would just overkill’.

On her favourite part of video for new track ‘I Really Like You’: ‘My favourite bit [of the I Really Like You video] is where we sent ‘running guy emoji’, ‘tree emoji’ and ‘running guy emoji’ to Tom Hanks. “Run, Forest, Run!”’.
On new album track ‘All That’ with Dev Hynes: ‘It’s got an amazing Princey vibe to it, it’s very evocative, a total slow jam’.

On working on her album collaboration with pop superstar Sia: ‘Sia is so humble and rad’ … ‘I was so nervous that day’.

On the names involved in her upcoming album: ‘Sia, Greg Kurstin, The Cardigans’s Peter Svensson, Dev Hynes, Arial Rechtshaid, Tegan & Sara, Jack Antonoff and Vampire Weekend’s Rostam Batmanglij’.

Photography credit: Ben Cope/Notion Magazine Art direction: Alexis Knox Styling: Caley Rinker *Additional imagery inside the magazine*
Photography credit: Ben Cope/Notion Magazine
Art direction: Alexis Knox
Styling: Caley Rinker
*Additional imagery inside the magazine*