Carly Rae Jepsen on Call Me Maybe success: It was ‘separate’ from me

Carly Rae Jepsen felt like her ‘Call Me Maybe’ success was  »separate » from her.

The 29-year-old singer catapulted to international fame when her 2012 track went viral but the star has admitted she felt alienated during the height of her success.

She said:  »It didn’t really feel like I was in the centre of it. It felt like something that took off and I was running to catch up with it.

 »It was separate from me, but in a really lovely way. I like that it became its own little thing. It didn’t feel like it was just my song, it belonged to other people and that’s the best thing about music. »

Carly also admitted she struggled to get a different song played on the radio following the success of ‘Call Me Maybe’.

She added to The Guardian newspaper:  »I was fighting tooth and nail for another song to be on the radio. Even with ‘I Really Like You’, I had been sending in songs every week to my label and I had no idea that was going to be the one that would work. I have zero ear for the radio, apparently.

 »I look back and I’m proud of the album [‘Kiss’] but clearly nothing did as well as that song and it was a challenge to get attention on the rest of the B-side tracks.

 »But it was a happy challenge and a problem you can go at two ways; you can either be really p****d off or you can be grateful that you had some attention at all. I did the latter. I saw it as an amazing gift that has allowed me to take my time with this new record and make sure that I have a really strong body of work and not just one song. »