After Call Me Maybe became a hit, the Canadian star could have spent her career churning out manufactured chart tunes. Instead, she has created an album that’s her most experimental and personal yet
Before Carly Rae Jepsen takes the stage on her new tour, a large animated moon appears on the screen. “I’ll be your host this evening,” it announces in a shimmering voice, surveying the audience with its dark blue eyes. “I am the ambassador of love … I offer you a safe place to feel whatever it is you need to feel.”
“I’ve been to James Taylor concerts, or American Utopia, the David Byrne musical,” Jepsen tells me over a video call, on a rare day off during her North American tour, “where I leave and I’m 10lb lighter and I don’t know why. But something kind of shifted, or it was the thing I needed.” Her “moon mascot”, as she calls it, looks to offer a similar catharsis.
