Trivia / Carly Rae Jepsen

• Acclaimed Flop: Despite highly positive reviews from critics and fans alike, Emotion debuted at #16 on the Billboard 200 and suffered dismal sales.
  • Emotion may have not set the charts on fire in the US, but it did considerably worse in her home country of Canada. It's shown in her tour schedule for the album, too: In early 2016, she came off a well received and fairly successful headlining American tour of indie clubs and theaters, and went straight into being the opening act for pop punk band Hedley on their tour of Canada.
• Approval of God: Most notably "Share It Maybe":
  "Sesame Street, man. It doesn't get any better than that!"
• Breakthrough Hit: "Call Me Maybe" is this to international audiences. It was also her first really big hit in Canada as well.
• Chart Displacement: "I Really Like You" was the only major hit from Emotion, but it has now been eclipsed in popularity and especially acclaim by "Run Away with Me".
• Colbert Bump: The odds of a third-place runner-up on American Idol going to #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 are small enough, while the odds of a third-place runner-up on Canadian Idol going to #1 in the States are next to nothing... but that's exactly what happened with her and "Call Me Maybe" after Justin Bieber praised the song on Twitter, putting in motion what later became a huge musical and memetic phenomenon. Still, no other Canadian Idol contestant has made any impact internationally.
  • Run Away With Me being used in the emotional climax & ending of the relationship between two major characters on Mr. Robot.
• Creator Backlash: Sorta, she doesn't necessarily hate "Call Me Maybe" or the Kiss era, being quite happy to sing those songs (even using "Call Me Maybe" as a closing song for her concerts well into the Dedicated era), but she seems to be of the opinion that Kiss in general was something done solely to boost her image and get an album out to capitalize on her newfound fame, and that Emotion and its successor works are where she truly got to shine as an artist and singer.
• Early-Bird Cameo: An early version of "Store" appeared in a 2011 a Canadian anti-smoking PSA, back when she was only known for losing Canadian Idol.
• No Budget: "Cut To The Feeling"s music video was just Jepsen on a stage, and she couldn't even afford 4 minutes of that. Originally released as a 1:14 excerpt, the video was later stretched out to full length using behind-the-scenes footage from a phone camera and a 30 second zoom into an empty stage. Compare the production values to this Japanese makeup commercial featuring the song.
  • Even the lyric video is just a couple of her friends dancing on a sidewalk.
  • Her lyric videos tend to just be the words, and a somewhat flashy transition for them, with a few animations for them.
  • A couple of her music videos for the Dedicated Era albums are either her in a studio or a house walking about singing the songs in question. Averted for "Party For One", "Want You In My Room" and "Now That I Found You", which return to proper music video formats.
• One-Hit Wonder: She is commonly called this; although she technically had two hits outside of Canada; the other hit, "Good Time," is a duet with Owl City, and it's he who gets first billing. "Call Me Maybe"'s view as a novelty song only makes things worse. She did attempt a Career Resurrection three years later with "I Really Like You" and "Run Away with Me", and while it was nowhere as big as "Call Me Maybe" or even "Good Time", it was quite successful, especially from a critical point of view.
  • Chart expert and music writer Chris Molanphy wrote a piece for the Village Voice on rules that could be used to define one hit wonders, and used Carly Rae and Owl City's success with "Good Time" as a specific example. Like Carly, Owl City is usually regarded as a one-hit wonder for 2009's "Fireflies" despite the second hit.
• Referenced by...: In I Wish You All the Best, Mariam comes up with suggestions for how Ben can ask Nathan out, including a flash mob where people dance to a Carly Rae Jepsen song.
• Similarly Named Works: Her 2008 album Tug of War should not be confused with Paul McCartney's 1982 album of the same name.
  • "This Kiss" is not a Faith Hill cover.
  • Half the songs on Emotion: Side B share names with Kylie Minogue songs and albums, like "Fever", "Body Language" and "The One". It's unknown whether this was an intentional Shout-Out or a case of generic song titles.

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