Carly Rae Jepsen says she is at peace as the pop middle class

At the age of 40 and with nearly two decades of career, Canadian singer Carly Rae Jepsen claims to be at peace with her place in the music industry. In an interview with G1, she commented on the "middle class of pop" label, attributed to her in a 2023 New York Times story, and declared that she had found her "ideal point of success".

"I found for myself the ideal point of being able to make the music that I love, to be able to travel with her and have a family and a life outside of it too," said the artist, who is releasing the album "Day and Night" on Friday.

Peculiar success and passionate fans

Carly Rae Jepsen has a peculiar level of success: she is from the “middle class of pop,” as a 2023 New York Times story called it. Despite not being at the top of the charts, she maintains a dedicated and enthusiastic fan base.

It was these fans who welcomed her with enthusiasm in 2023, in the last coming of the singer to Brazil for the Primavera Sound São Paulo and solo show in Rio de Janeiro. And they look forward to the album "Day and Night", a foray into pop music from confessional to dancer, released on Friday (18).

Weeks before the release, Carly spoke to the g1 about the album coming in 2023 — which she says was one of the best trips of her life — and that label of “middle class.”

Conscious Choice and Gratitude

For Carly, the position she occupies today is the result of a conscious choice made early in her career. "I feel really grateful that I made this choice early on, and I feel that I landed finding my community and being able to have a passionate and powerful group that I travel the world and visit every time we release music, and it's truly the joy of minha vida," she said.

She has no pretensions to rise to the highest level of pop. Instead, it values the balance between music and personal life.

New album brings together 24 tracks

Used to releasing dual projects (her last albums won "side A and side B", released at different times), she decided to put it all together this time in "Day and Night", which ended up with 24 tracks.

Carly says she even considered the possibility that people wouldn't listen until the end, but that this time, "every song had a reason to be there."

“It seemed like a way for me to embrace the world. To have a cohesive project on the day, to have a cohesive project on the night, and to let them coexist, with these two kind of bold flavors that represent where I am now.”

Personal life in peace

Where she is now is a special place: the singer married producer Cole MGN (collaborator of "Day and Night") in 2025 and in March 2026 they received their son Ilya. That is, there is a tone of peace and joy at this stage of the artist’s career — she spent the whole interview quite smiling.

Carly reveals that most of the album had already been completed before the baby was born, but many songs give hints of that "little family nucleus she dreamed of having one day". "[The record] is, yes, a beautiful portrait of the minha vida that I'm very happy it's documented."

Memories of Brazil

The passage through Brazil in 2023 left special marks. According to the singer, the security guard who was with the band promised to show the "non-tourist" places. So they went to secret beaches and jumped in paragliding.

"When we were in Rio, we actually went paragliding with the kite, off a mountain, that was surreal and something I always wanted to do and I can't believe I did because I kind of fear heights."

There was time for everything: according to the singer, they even went out to dance "a little dance, with a few steps there and here". In short, apparently, Carly Rae Jepsen danced forró in Brazil.

With a new album, a growing family, and affectionate travel memories, Carly Rae Jepsen follows her trajectory in pop without rushing to the top — and happy with the path chosen.

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