Carly Rae Jepsen

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About

Carly Rae Jepsen is a Canadian pop singer and songwriter known for her hit singles "Call Me Maybe," and "I Really Really Like You," among others. Music videos for her songs have often been subject to remixes and other meme treatments.

Career

"Call Me Maybe"

Jepsen had already released one album and made it to the top three on Canadian Idol when pop star Justin Bieber's manager, Scooter Braun, signed her to a larger deal with his record company, Schoolboy Records in 2012. After the signing, Bieber himself began tweeting about Jepsen's new single, "Call Me Maybe," which caused sales to skyrocket even though he misspelled the singer's last name.

Since its release, Jepsen’s “Call Me Maybe” became notable for its international success, reaching number one in Australia, Brazil, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, New Zealand, Poland, Slovakia, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States, as well as peaking in the top three singles in Austria, Belgium, Estonia, Germany, Israel, Japan, Netherlands, Norway and Sweden. The music video for the song was uploaded to the singer’s YouTube VEVO channel on March 1st, 2012. She released the full-length album Kiss later that year.

The singer was the first Canadian to receive Billboard's "Rising Star" award in 2012, and "Call Me Maybe" won two Juno awards and was nominated for two Grammies.

After touring to support Kiss, the singer recorded her third studio album, Emotion, in 2014 and began releasing singles in 2015. The video for the first single, "I Really Really Like You," was posted to the Carly Rae Jepsen VEVO on March 6th, 2015, and starred the actor Tom Hanks dancing and lip-syncing to the song. It reached the Top 5 and Top 40 charts in Canada and the United States, and the video received 135 million views as of April 2016. On July 17th, 2015 she released the album's second single "Runaway With Me," on her VEVO channel; as of April 2016 it has 18 million views.

The album was released later that year to critical acclaim, although it did not chart as highly as Kiss. In the meantime, Jepsen recorded the theme song for the reboot of Full House, Fuller House, and played Frenchy in the live television musical production Grease Live.

Online Presence

Jepsen maintains social media accounts on Twitter, where she has 11 million followers; Facebook, where she has 13 million likes; Instagram, where she has 1.6 million followers; and YouTube, with 2,358,135 subscribers. She also maintains an active fan club on the app BKSTG. In addition, a subreddit devoted to the singer was created in 2012 and has 371 subscribers as of April 2016.

Call Me Maybe

Call Me Maybe is a 2011 dance pop single recorded by Canadian singer-songwriter Carly Rae Jepsen. The song rose to fame online after being endorsed by pop star Justin Bieber in December 2011. Since its release, the song has inspired many lip dub tributes, parodies and covers on the video sharing site YouTube.

Backseat Lip Dub Dancing

Backseat Lip Dub Dancing is a choreographed group performance that takes place in the backseat of a moving vehicle involving a group of passengers, such as traveling sports team. On YouTube, it can be seen as a subgenre of lip dub music videos. The combination of lip dubbing and dancing in the car went through its highest growth period in early 2012 with cover renditions of Carly Jepsen’s “Call Me Maybe”, which led to an impromptu challenge among college sports teams.

Run Away With Me

Run Away with Me is a 2015 pop song written and performed by Canadian singer-songwriter Carly Rae Jepsen that was released as the second single from her third studio album Emotion. In late February 2016, the saxophone arrangement from the opening of the song inspired a series of remix videos on Vine.