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Carly Rae Jepsen: "I'm more confident in my weirdness now"

Kate Mossman, The Guardian, 12 May 2019

WHEN CARLY RAE Jepsen wrote 'Call Me Maybe', Billboard's "greatest chorus of the 21st century", she was aiming for a sense of "childish excitement". It's how she writes much of her pop — as she puts it today, "I want to feel I'm on the top of a mountain with Beyoncé-wind in my hair and I can fly for a second."

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