Carly Rae Jepsen – Motivation

Multi-platinum, GRAMMY® Award-nominated pop singer/songwriter Carly Rae Jepsen celebrates families on her new single “Motivation,” out today via Interscope Records.

The track is from the “night” of her forthcoming 24-track double album Day and Night, scheduled for September 18 release.

“Motivation” is one of the album’s most boldly candid moments: an incisive reflection on inherited patterns and the cost of becoming yourself, set against the hypnotic and glittering grandeur of a house-inspired backdrop. She wrote the song with Cole M.G.N., who produced it alongside Kyle Shearer.

“‘Motivation’ started when I was back in my hometown in the fall, and the crunch of the leaves under my feet started creating this rhythm,” says Carly Rae Jepsen. “I was thinking about my family and how passionate we all are, how we have such high expectations of each other. ‘Motivation’ became my way of making peace with all of that—it’s our little family anthem that recognizes all the complicated parts, but I hope it can be an anthem for chosen families as well.”

Shot in Paris, the kinetic official video brings together a vibrant cross-section of individuals to celebrate the connection that families—be they birth or chosen—share. Caio Viera, who also helmed the official video for “On Wires,” the album’s first single, directed. Gigi Goode, who came to prominence on Season 12 of “RuPaul’s Drag Race” and has gone one to establish herself as a fashion designer, actress and model, is featured.

As it moves from symphonic pop to dreamy psychedelia to high-octane disco, Day and Night echoes the palpable sense of playful abandon Jepsen experienced in bringing her most ambitious album to life. Early singles “On Wires” and “After All” gave fans a window into the “day” side of the album, with its sun-soaked left-field pop while “night” brings forward-thinking dance music with a maximalist edge, as exemplified by “Motivation” and “Don’t Leave Me on the Dance Floor.”

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