Carly Rae Jepsen

0:00Hey, it's Matt with MSN.CA, Carla Rejepson, how are you? I'm doing well, how are you? I'm doing well, so the big tour is almost done, I think, kind of. Actually, we're kind of like smack in the middle. So you get a little break though, finally. We get Christmas break, and then we're back at it for another like, 30 months, I think,

0:45two or three months? So what's been like, I mean, an arena stadium tour? It's been a dream come true for me. I've always wanted to do that, and it's been cool to kind of see how it's something I can work at and improve at. The first week was nerves, and the second week was like, all right, I got this. And the third week, I'm like, tonight I want to do this, and I want to do that. It's changing. What are this and that? Just sort of, there's a purpose when I step on the stage now. I'm like, okay, I want to evoke this emotion from this song, and I want to get people in the back to sing along to this part. It changed. There was that comfort zone, I think, at the beginning about a year and a half ago with the clubs I was playing there, the 300th Street Benio's, and you kind of learn to make the stage a bit more like your home. The same sort of evolution had to happen, I think, in a bigger way to kind of take in the Justin Bieber crowd. What about beautiful?

1:31It's a fun one for me. It's cool to do collaborations because it's kind of like a little something that neither one of us would do all alone, but it's really fun to kind of do together. We do make a moment for it on the tour. We might not be doing it tonight because it's Christmas right now. We're doing it for Christmas, so we're kind of knocking out all those songs. But in general, we do have a moment where we get to sing beautiful together on stage. So is there more lighting, more dancing? How is your show changed to fit these rooms? I'm not really a dancer. I'm more like a singer in front of you. A singer, an actress. Yeah. But I do like to kind of get to say, hey to everybody in the stadium, so that doesn't mean kind of going stage left and stage right and kind of connecting with them. And for me, there are this whole new world of stuff. There's bigger lights, there's bigger everything. So it's just kind of realizing that you need to take all of that space and still make it

2:19feel like you're talking one on one to somebody. What about writing? Are you able to write on the road? Have you had time to write at all? I actually have surprised myself and I do actually. It's not even something that I've really necessarily made time for. It's just sort of snuck in between the cracks because it's something that I feel like I almost need to do. And I'm really lucky because I tour with Tavish Crow, who is my guitarist and who is a little bit of a gear head. So if I have an idea or if I'm kind of sparked by something, he can kind of pull out his laptop and help me demo it out. And it's really cool. Also my drummer can kind of add new beats to it. And all of a sudden we have a couple new ideas, just kind of percolating in case one of them really sparks into something. Any time it's coming out on Soundcheck? Actually when we do radio promo and stuff and we have a couple of seconds with the microphone, we're usually jamming out the new song. And so it's sort of a good place to kind of test it out and see if we feel like it's a

3:06keeper or if it's something that was more of a weed. We need to get out there, but just doesn't need to be shown to anybody. So it's like what's happened from time to time? Everyone's smiling, I'll flower and the rest of them you hear. I like that analogy. Is there a moment in Mexico City? Mexico City was actually one of my biggest memories so far for the fact that it was the biggest audience I've ever been in front of. You know how many people? I do. Three hundred thousand people. All singing along to your song. Yes, it was moving. It was moving and terrifying all at once. I didn't know how I felt about it. I just knew that I felt sort of like someone had woken me up from a really good dream. I was thinking about dreams of this dream come true year. You've said that a few times. Yeah. You probably get this a lot, but what have been some of the highlights? The initial sort of tweet from Justin's sort of saying, hey, I like your song and it's

3:52catchy. I thought that was cool and to know that that led into sort of my first record contract worldwide. That was pretty amazing highlight. And then to kind of be able to travel I think in general is like one of the perks from this year to see Europe in a bigger way and to kind of get to go to Japan five times. It's been really, really crazy for me. Five times. Yeah, it's been pretty amazing. And then on top of that, I think just this last sort of month it's been a surprise after surprise sort of getting the Rising Star Award at Billboard was crazy and the AMAs and the EMA is just sort of getting recognized for things that I've been working really hard at and wasn't sort of banking on those sort of awards, but it really is nice to get really moving. I'm going to let you go sweetie something called Five Questions. Five Quick Questions, one more answers.

4:38Okay. Rode or Studio? Studio. Lenna and McCartney. It's a hard one. When you hear a song what usually hits you first, lyrics melody or rhythm. Melody. Song you've written you're most proud of. Tiny little bows. The same cook one. I know why that made me really happen when I put on the record today. I was like, wait a second I know that worked. That's great. In one word, Carly Rae Japhson. Wow.