{"id":650044,"date":"2026-08-22T02:30:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T02:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/650044\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T02:30:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T02:30:14","slug":"hear-carly-rae-jepsens-new-single-motivation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/650044\/","title":{"rendered":"Hear Carly Rae Jepsen&#8217;s New Single &#8216;Motivation&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.udiscovermusic.com\/genre\/carly-rae-jepsen\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Carly Rae Jepsen<\/strong><\/a> has released \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/carlyraejepsen.lnk.to\/Motivation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><strong>Motivation<\/strong><\/a>,\u201d a new single and video from the \u201cnight\u201d half of her forthcoming 24-track double album Day and Night. The Interscope Records album is due September 18, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The song pairs a house-inspired backdrop with lyrics about family expectations, inherited patterns, and the process of defining yourself. Jepsen wrote \u201cMotivation\u201d with Cole M.G.N., who produced the track alongside Kyle Shearer. Jepsen said the idea began while she was back in her hometown in the fall, when the sound of leaves underfoot suggested a rhythm. Thinking about her family\u2019s passion and high expectations, she said the song became a way to make peace with those dynamics. She called it \u201cour little family anthem\u201d and said she hopes it can apply to chosen families as well as relatives.<\/p>\n<p>Caio Viera directed the \u201cMotivation\u201d video after also helming Jepsen\u2019s visual for \u201cOn Wires.\u201d Shot in Paris, the clip brings together a varied group of people around the song\u2019s theme of connection and family, representing both birth and chosen family bonds. Gigi Goode, who first gained wider attention on Season 12 of RuPaul\u2019s Drag Race and later established a career in fashion, acting, and modeling, is among those featured. Across the wider record, Jepsen moves between symphonic pop, psychedelic textures, disco, and dance music, with the \u201cday\u201d material leaning toward left-field pop and the \u201cnight\u201d material carrying a more maximalist club influence.<\/p>\n<p>The Day and Night rollout began with \u201cOn Wires,\u201d the album\u2019s first single, followed by \u201cAfter All,\u201d with both tracks representing the \u201cday\u201d side. \u201cDon\u2019t Leave Me on the Dance Floor\u201d then previewed the dance-focused material; its video was directed by playwright, actor, and screenwriter Jeremy O. Harris in his music-video directorial debut and stars Alden Ehrenreich and Olivia Washington.\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/carlyraejepsen.lnk.to\/Motivation?utm_campaign=products&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=udiscovermusic.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><b>Listen to Carly Rae Jepsen\u2019s \u201cMotivation\u201d here.<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carly Rae Jepsen has released \u201cMotivation,\u201d a new single and video from the \u201cnight\u201d half of her forthcoming&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":650045,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[264],"tags":[12708,237969,18,117,47519,19,17,46231,337,4513],"class_list":["post-650044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-carly-rae-jepsen","tag-day-and-night","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-homepage-featured","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-motivation","tag-music","tag-pop"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117136813407459309","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=650044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/650045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}