Which Carly Rae Jepsen Song Are You?

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Few artists have had a career shaped as strangely by a single song as Carly Rae Jepsen. Call Me Maybe was inescapable in 2012, one of the best-selling singles of all time and a cultural event that briefly threatened to define her permanently. What happened next is the more interesting story: instead of chasing the hit, Jepsen spent the following decade making some of the most critically adored pop albums of the era for an audience that grew smaller in raw numbers and dramatically more devoted.

The pivot point was Emotion in 2015. Commercially it underperformed. Critically it became a canonical record, the kind of album that gets written about years after release as a lost classic that was never actually lost. Its opening track, Run Away With Me, begins with a saxophone blast that has become genuinely iconic among her listeners, and the song functions as a mission statement: enormous feelings, no irony, total commitment to the bit.

That sincerity is the through-line of her work. Jepsen writes about crushes with the intensity most songwriters reserve for grief. She reportedly records dozens of songs for every album that ships, which has produced a famous cache of B-sides that her listeners treat as canon rather than offcuts. Emotion: Side B is, by many accounts, stronger than most artists' main releases. Cut To The Feeling, which did not make an album at all and was released for the animated film Ballerina, has become one of her most beloved tracks.

Dedicated in 2019 and Dedicated Side B the following year deepened the disco and funk textures. The Loneliest Time in 2022 was more melancholy and more experimental, and its title track had an unexpected second life on social media. The Loveliest Time arrived in 2023 as its companion. Across all of it, the songwriting stays remarkably consistent: specific, generous and unembarrassed.

Her live shows have become a significant part of the appeal. Jepsen tours relentlessly and has cultivated one of the more joyful concert cultures in contemporary pop, with an audience that skews queer, knows every B-side, and treats the shows as communal rather than spectatorial. It is a genuinely rare thing in an era of stadium-scale pop: an artist whose fanbase feels like a room rather than a market.

In 2026 she returns with a 24-track double album, an ambitious swing even by her standards and one that arrives in a crowded September release calendar alongside major records from Miley Cyrus, Beabadoobee and Beck. A double album from an artist known for hoarding excellent material is, for her listeners, less a risk than an overdue reckoning with the archive.

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So which Carly Rae song are you? The one who makes the first move badly, the one who wants the enormous version, the one who says it forty times, the one who skips to the euphoria, or the one who turned it into a joke? Take the quiz above and find out.