Carly Rae Jepsen is inviting us behind the scenes in the music video for her LEAP! soundtrack single “Cut to the Feeling”!
The 31-year-old singer’s new video, which premiered on Friday (September 15), follows the E•MO•TION pop star as she prepares to shoot the actual “Cut to the Feeling” video.
The video was shot on a studio lot in Los Angeles, and features Carly‘s friends and musicians as her band, including David Kalani Larkins, Greta Morgan from Springtime Carnivore and James Flannigan.
Watch the music video for “Cut to the Feeling” below…
Carly Rae Jepsen just released her music video for our summer jam, “Cut to the Feeling!”
The super fun singer dropped a black and white vid for the song, which is part of the soundtrack for new movie, Leap!
The video features clips from the adorable animated film, intercut with Carly Rae performing with her band.
Carly Rae also has a voice over role in the filming, portraying a dance mentor named Odette who helps a ballerina named Felicie realize her full potential as a dancer.
FYI: Maddie is wearing a Marc Jacobs dress. Carly Rae is wearing a Needle & Thread dress. Skai is wearing a Cynthia Rowley dress. Mackenzie is wearing a Zimmermann dress.
15+ pictures inside of Maddie Ziegler and Mackenzie Ziegler at the premiere… More Here! »
If you’re still trying to declare anything other than Carly Rae Jepsen‘s “Cut To The Feeling” the song of the summer, stop now, because she’s already won.
However, the singer-songwriter doesn’t really care that much about that title at all.
“I always think that’s a dangerous trap to get into,” she shared with Huffington Post. “I think it can be a really easy thing to slip into a formula and referencing songs that have worked before, especially in the Los Angeles writing scene. It takes all of the heart out. All of the fun out.”
Carly Rae adds, “There has to be an initial spark or inspiration that’s stemming from something actually authentic inside you, and then you can go into all the rules and think about it. I think it’s a much more exciting place to just be coming at music always from the need to write it versus the I’m going to sit down and mathematically work out how to make money off this approach. That’s just going to kill you.”
But we all have to admit that “Cut to the Feeling” is the song of the summer, right?
“Obviously, it’s really flattering to hear that, but the song of the summer idea has always seemed a little crazy to me because I think you can have whole soundtracks and many songs,” she adds.
“The summer is supposed to be filled with tons of music,” Carly Rae says. “Summer in itself is such a feeling to capture in a song and I think I’m always trying to capture that feeling.”
Carly Rae Jepsen had no idea of the ineffable, bouncy power of “Call Me Maybe” when she first recorded the song.
“I’d be lying to say that I knew the song was going to be a career-changer for me,” the singer told Billboard (who voted “Hey I just met you/And this is crazy/So here’s my number/So call me maybe” the century‘s best chorus) in an interview, though she did notice that people seemed to react to it more than her other songs.
Once the song did become the sugary pop-hit we all know and adore, she had a very different fear. “There’s this terrifying feeling of, ‘Oh god, what if that’s the only music that I create?” she explained, “‘What if it defines the genre of what I do from now on?’”
Fortunately, that hasn’t been the case, and Carly has been able to propel the popularity of “Call Me Maybe” into a powerful freedom to pursue her own musical interests.
“It’s a gift to have a song like that because it’s allowed me now to start to be able to make, without sacrifice or compromise, the exact music that I’ve always dreamed of making,” she finished.
It turns out writing the century’s best chorus has some perks.
The 24-year-old entertainer took the stage during intermission at the 2017 Honda NHL All-Star Game Semifinal #1 (Central vs. Pacific) at the Staples Center on Sunday (January 29) in Los Angeles.
Carly took the stage before the game to sing the Canadian national anthem – and she debuted a new hairdo!
“Lil blonde me about to sing O Canada at the #NHLAllStar game!,” Carly Rae posted on Instagram. See another pic below!
