List of unknown unreleased songs

This article contains a list of all unknown unreleased songs from Carly Rae Jepsen.

## **Kiss**

#### **Fun collaboration**

During the development of Kiss, on June 24th 2012, Jepsen had a writing session with American pop rock band Fun in Los Angeles. It's likely that they recorded a song together, though possible that this is simply just when Jepsen and Fun band member Jack Antonoff wrote Sweetie together. It's unknown if a full collaboration between the two artists exists.

#### **Ryan Teddler collaboration**

In a June 2012 interview with Billboard, it was stated Jepsen had scheduled a studio session with Ryan Teddler that upcoming week, though no collaboration between the pair was ever released. It's unknown if Jepsen and Teddler worked on any music together.

## **Scrapped third studio album album**

* Benny Blanco collaboration
* Stargate collaboration

## **Scrapped indie-folk album**

#### **Tegan and Sara collaborations**

During the development of Jepsen's scrapped indie-folk album, she collaborated with Canadian indie-pop band Tegan and Sara on an unknown number of songs. Jepsen had first reached out to Tegan and Sara during her time as Cinderella on Broadway, sometime between February and June 2014 during the development of the project, and had asked the pair to collaborate.

Sara Quinn stated that, "[At the time] we had no idea what the record was going to ultimately sound like" (in reference to Emotion) and described what they had made together as "definitely very different." Quinn also stated that, after the songs had been scrapped by Jepsen, they had been taken back in by the band and were being considered to be released or sold to other artists, though this never happened.

## Emotion

#### **Tegan and Sara collaboration**

In the Making of Emotion YouTube video, Tegan and Sara were featured alongside Jepsen and producer Greg Kurstin working on an unknown song for the album. The group had worked together in February 2015, based on posts made on Jepsen's Instagram at the time.

#### **Jesse Saint John collaboration**

In a 2018 interview, Jesse Saint John confirmed that he'd created a song with Jepsen for her album Emotion.  That song was possibly recorded in December 2013.

#### **Jack Antonoff collaborations**

In October 2014, Jepsen posted to Instagram to reveal she had been working on a new song alongside Jack Antonoff.  The pair worked together again in January 2015.

Though Antonoff is credited with producing a version of unreleased song Wildflowers for the album, which failed to make the cut, it's likely they worked on more songs together as well.

#### **Max Martin collaboration**

In an August 2015 review of Emotion, it was stated Max Martin had worked on a song during the development of Emotion that was ultimately cut from the album.

## Disco Sweat

During the development of Disco Sweat in early-to-mid 2016, Jepsen confirmed she had been working on new music with producers Mattman & Robin, Shellback, and Rami Yacoub. These songs were likely scrapped alongside the project.

## Dedicated

#### **Nate Campany / James Flannigan song**

Jepsen collaborated with Nate Campany and James Flannigan multiple times during the development of Dedicated. Their first song together as a trio was written in Nicaragua at a writer's camp, in either 2016 or 2017. Campany stated, "That song never made it out, it still sits on hard drives."

#### **Three Rostam songs**

During the Dedicated sessions, Jepsen collaborated with Rostam on a number of unreleased songs. In April 2017, the pair met up in the studio and wrote a song in just a single day. Rostam explained this was "something that happens from time to time," and commented that they were both 'really excited' about it.

Later in 2018, Rostam revealed he and Jepsen had wrote multiple songs together during the Dedicated sessions and described them as "next level" and "catchy as hell."  In May 2022, Rostam revealed he and Carly had written a total of three completed tracks for Dedicated that were ultimately scrapped.

#### **Nate Campany / Kyle Shearer / Leland song**

In May 2018, Jepsen posted to Instagram to share she was writing new music alongside collaborators Nate Campany and Kyle Shearer, and songwriter/producer Leland.  Ultimately, the song was never released. The song is likely All To Myself, as it shares the same writers.

#### **Kyle Shearer / Andrew Wuepper song**

In July 2018, Los Angeles based mixing engineer Andrew Wuepper took to Instagram to reveal he had been working on a song with Carly and producer Kyle Shearer. Ultimately, the track was never released.

#### **John Hill / James King / Rob Cohen songs**

In late 2018, Jepsen was photographed in the studio alongside record producer John Hill, saxophonist James King, and vocal producer Rob Cohen, courtesy of King's personal website. Based on the production credits, this was the same session that Dedicated track I'll Be Your Girl was worked on.

King stated he had worked on a couple of songs during the session, though I'll Be Your Girl is the only song to have been released.  Ultimately, these other tracks referred to by King were never released.

#### **Nate Campany / Kyle Shearer song**

In December 2018, Campany revealed via his Instagram story he was working on an unknown song with Jepsen and Shearer in the studio.

#### **Additional Electric Guest collaboration**

During the development of Dedicated, Jepsen wrote Feels Right alongside Asa Taccone and Matt Compton of music band Electric Guest, who feature on the song. According to Taccone, they had written an additional song with Jepsen, which was ultimately cut from the album before release.

## The Loneliest Time

#### **Charli XCX / Rostam collaboration**

Sometime prior to July 2020, Carly and Charli XCX collaborated on an unknown song together. It was first mentioned by Jepsen when she was asked about the possibility of a second collaboration with Charli, following 2017's Backseat. Carly stated that the pair had "been kind of chatting" about the idea. Charli and Rostam responded via Twitter to confirm their involvement in the song.

At the time, it was thought that the song would likely to be included on either Charli or Jepsen's then-upcoming albums, *CRASH* and The Loneliest Time respectively, though ultimately, this never came to be.

#### **CJ Baran / Ben Romans song**

In October 2021, during the development of The Loneliest Time, Jepsen posted to Instagram to reveal she was working with collaborators CJ Baran and Ben Romans on new material in the studio.

#### **Rostam songs**

In an interview with Vogue, Rostam states he and Jepsen made plenty of "up-tempo pop bangers" during their sessions for The Loneliest Time which didn't make the album.  In July 2023, Rostam confirmed two of these songs would be included on The Loveliest Time - these were Shadow and After Last Night.

#### **The Knocks collaboration**

In January 2022, music duo The Knocks confirmed they had been working on new material with Jepsen for her then-upcoming album, The Loneliest Time, though were unsure if it would be released. Ultimately, The Knocks' contributions to the album never materialised.

## Miscellaneous

#### **David Hodges / Chad Kroeger song**

An unknown song written by David Hodges, Chad Kroegar, and Carly Rae Jepsen was registered to ASCAP under the working title '02/01/2003'.  This was likely a placeholder registration for There Was Music, which was again registered as I Admit That There Was Music with alternative writing credits.

Jepsen most likely did not work on the song in 2003, as this was before she had yet to debut in the music industry. She most likely contributed to the final version of the song after being signed to Kroegar's record label 604 Records in November 2010.

#### **Justin Raisen & Patrik Berger song / Charli XCX collaboration**

In March 2017, Jepsen, Raisen, and Berger held a studio session together in Los Angeles, and would be joined by Charli XCX later in the night. Charli stated the group had a 'jam session' and partied together in the studio, though no official collaboration between the two artists would materialise at this time.

#### **Kimbra / Jack Antonoff project**

On April 5th 2018, Jepsen, Kimbra, and Jack Antonoff collaborated on an unknown song together. At the time, Jepsen was flying to New York to work with Antonoff on upcoming material for Dedicated, and had met up with Kimbra for lunch whilst there after messaging her on Instagram previously.

Whilst in the studio with Antonoff, Jepsen mentioned meeting Kimbra earlier that day and invited her for the last two hours of their session. Jepsen shared that she and Kimbra were recording together via her Instagram story.  Jepsen states the trio wrote a song together that night, describing it as something that exists "in its own world." Jepsen explained that, if the song was ever released, it would be as a joint project between the three of them.

#### **Troye Sivan collaboration**

During the development of Troye Sivan's 2018 album, Bloom, he and Jepsen collaborated on an unknown song together. Sivan described it as 'really cute' though, ultimately, the decision was made to cut the track prior to release. 'You end up writing 50 songs for an album when you wanna pick 10, so sometimes they just don't make it.'

#### **AJ Woodworth collaboration**

In September 2010, Jepsen collaborated with AJ Woodworth on an unknown song. Jepsen discussed the song on her Twitter and posted what appears to be song lyrics, 'go a little bit faster!'. Ultimately, the song never surfaced.

#### **Justin Raisen project**

Jepsen states there's a song in particular she had been working on for years over multiple occasions, which Justin Raisen proved to be the right producer for. Although unreleased, Jepsen wants to save the song for a potential pop musical she dreams of writing.

## **References**

1. ↑ Lockett, Dee "Carly Rae Jepsen Wants You to Notice Her, Maybe, But for the Right Reasons" Vulture. August 20th, 2015. Retrieved April 18th, 2021.
2. ↑ Daley, Megan "Carly Rae Jepsen on new album: 'I was knocking on Tegan and Sara’s door myself'" Entertainment Weekly. March 6th, 2015. Retrieved April 18th, 2021.
3. ↑ Feeney, Nolan "How Tegan and Sara Became Bona Fide Pop Stars" Time Magazine. April 20th, 2016. Retrieved April 18th, 2021
4. ↑ Carly Rae Jepsen – The Making of E•MO•TION YouTube. July 6th, 2015. Retrieved April 18th, 2021.
5. ↑ @carlyraejepsen "Studio days with @teganandsara :)" February 19th 2015. Retrieved October 23rd 2021 - via Instagram
6. ↑ Guzman, Ivan "Life after Britney, why hit songwriter Jesse Saint John is going solo" Interview Magazine, February 16th 2018. Retrieved November 5th 2023
7. ↑ @carlyraejepsen "@JesseSaintJohn the pleasure was all mine. X" Twitter, December 3rd 2013.
8. ↑ @carlyraejepsen "Cooking up a new ditty w the very talented Mr. @jackantonoff" October 1st 2014.
9. ↑ @carlyraejepsen "...Great couple days in the studio with my style icon @jackantonoff" January 14th 2015.
10. ↑ Gottlieb, Jed 'Review: Carly Rae Jepsen, “Emotion” Boston Herald, August 21st 2015
11. ↑ Cliff, Aimee "Carly Rae Jepsen And Danny L Harle On Their PC Music Collaboration “Super Natural”" TheFader, August 12th 2016
12. ↑ Campany, Nate "First time @carlyraejepsen and @flanimal\_kingdom and I all wrote together was in a hut in the jungle of Nicaragua...." May 22nd 2020
13. ↑ Grebey, James "Rostam Is Ready to Move, but Not Necessarily Move On" GQ. December 11th 2017.
14. ↑ @matsoR "next level (duh) and catchy as hell" (Tweet). July 14th 2018.
15. ↑ @CarlyCrave #WesternWind producer @matsoR reveals he and Carly have 3 scrapped DEDICATED era tracks!🎶... May 6th 2022
16. ↑ @carlyraejepsen "Writing a tuuuuune w three hunks today!" Instagram, May 5th 2018. Retrieved October 24th 2021.
17. ↑ @drewmixit "Had a blast in the studio with you today @carlyraejepsen the new song is so 🔥🔥🔥can’t wait for everyone to hear it!" Instagram, July 13th, 2018.
18. ↑ King, James "Couple songs in the studio this last winter with Carly Rae Jepsen!" jameskingmusic.com. Retrieved August 11th, 2021.
19. ↑ Campany, Nate 'Reunited @kyleshearer @carlyraejepsen' December 1st 2018 - via Instagram
20. ↑ Riddell, Rose "Interview: Electric Guest on their new album 'Kin'" Coup de Main, October 31st 2019. Retrieved October 9th 2021.
21. ↑ @CarlyRaeJepsen\_ "...we've been kind of chatting about the idea to be honest with you" July 7th 2020 – via Reddit.
22. ↑ @charli\_xcx "imagine if..." (Tweet) July 8th 2020 – via Twitter.
23. ↑ @matsoR "..." (Tweet) July 8th 2020 – via Twitter.
24. ↑ @carlyraejepsen "A self timed studio pic..." October 14th 2021 - via Instagram
25. ↑ Bell, Keaton "Carly Rae Jepsen’s Loneliest Hour" VOGUE, October 26th 2022
26. ↑ The Knocks Discord Server, January 17th 2022
27. ↑ "ACE Repertory" ASCAP.com. Retrieved April 5th, 2021.
28. ↑ Taylor, Trey "Carly Rae Jepsen Hits The Studio With Charli XCX" iHeart Radio, March 16th 2017. Retrieved October 24th 2021.
29. ↑ Nelson, Jeff "Carly Rae Jepsen Talks Her Next Album, 'Creative Crush' Charli XCX & Being a 'Cat Lady'" People, April 6th 2018. Retrieved October 24th 2021.
30. ↑ Lockett, Dee "Charli XCX Isn't Sure She'll Release Another Album" Vulture, December 15th 2017. Retrieved October 24th 2021.
31. ↑ 31.0 31.1 Davanger, Christer "730 møtte ikonet Carly Rae Jepsen: – Jeg er den verste til å slå opp med folk" 730.no, March 15th 2020
32. ↑ @carlyraejepsen "I love Kimbra @kimbramusic" April 5th 2018 - via Instagram
33. ↑ Wilson-Taylor, James "EXCLUSIVE: Troye Sivan Has Written New Songs With Carly Rae Jepsen" PopBuzz. February 19th, 2018. Retrieved May 2nd, 2021.
34. ↑ @carlyraejepsen "Writing a country tune with @ajwoodworth. "Go a little bit Faster!"" (Tweet) September 23rd, 2010. Retrieved May 2nd, 2021 - Via Twitter