Feels Right

## **Feels Right***feat. Electric Guest*

**Feels Right** is the eleventh track on Carly Rae Jepsen's fourth studio album, Dedicated (2019). It was released on May 17th 2019, through 604, School Boy and Interscope Records.

## **Lyrics**

**Verse 1**: Carly Rae Jepsen

Feels good waking up in your way

My heart needed a holiday

I bet we can make things slide into Monday

I've been living with no regrets

Love was just a night at best

Two step, making the weekend slide into something

**Pre-Chorus**: Carly Rae Jepsen

One more night with you always turns to two

I can't help it 'cause it feels right when it feels right

**Chorus**: Carly Rae Jepsen & Asa Taccone

'Cause it feels like I've never loved

Now I got ya, and I only think of you

'Cause it feels like I've never loved

Now I'd do, boy, anything to step with you

**Verse 2**: Carly Rae Jepsen

True fact

Baby, I love you back, don't ask

Nothing I want to say

We know timing isn't right *(Maybe one day)*

'Til then, steal me a free weekend

You're my complicated friend

I'm just keeping the dream alive

But I must say

**Pre-Chorus**: Carly Rae Jepsen

One more night with you always turns to two

I can't help it 'cause it feels right, when it feels right

**Chorus**: Carly Rae Jepsen & Asa Taccone

'Cause it feels like I've never loved

Now I got ya, and I only think of you

'Cause it feels like I've never loved

And I do, boy, anything to step with you

**Bridge**: Carly Rae Jepsen

Feels like I've been wasting time

Look at all the things I've left behind

You're the one to change my mind

'Cause it feels right when it feels right

I don't know a thing I've done

Livin' all my life with no damn one

You're the one to change my mind

'Cause it feels right, when it feels right

**Chorus**: Carly Rae Jepsen & Asa Taccone

'Cause it feels like I've never loved

Now I got ya, and I only think of you

'Cause it feels like I've never loved

Now I do, boy, anything to step with you

## **Song credits**

#### **Writing and production**

* **Written by:** Carly Rae Jepsen • Asa Taccone • Matt Compton • John Hill • Jordan Palmer
* **Produced by:** Asa Taccone • Jordan Palmer • John Hill

#### **Instrumentation**

* **Bass:** John Hill
* **Horns:** John Hill
* **Drums:** Jordan Palmer
* **Piano:** Electric Guest
* **Percussion:** Electric Guest
* **Guitars:** John Hill • Electric Guest
* **Keyboards:** John Hill • Jordan Palmer • Electric Guest

#### **Additional credits**

* **Programming:** John Hill
* **Engineering:** Blake Mares
* **Mastering:** Gene Grimaldi
* **Vocal production:** Jordan Palmer
* **Featured vocals:** Asa Taccone (courtesy of Atlantic Recording Corporation)

#### **Studio info**

* **Recorded at:** The Village Studios (Los Angeles, CA)
* **Mastered at:** Oasis Mastering (Burbank, CA)

#### **Publishing info**

* **Published by:** Universal Music Corp./Jepsen Music Publishing (ASCAP), Twonk Donklis/Universal Music & Because Music (SESAC), EMI Pop Music Publishing / Olney Songs (GMR), Sony/ATV Ballad / Music From Fresno (BMI), Cornbread Inc/SESAC Produced by John Hill, Asa Taccone and Jordan Palmer Mixed by Mitch McCarthy at SOTA Studios

## **Writing and development**

Feels Right was written by Jepsen alongside Asa Taccone and Matt Compton of musical band Electric Guest, and producers John Hill and Jordan Palmer, sometime during the development of Dedicated between 2016 and 2019.

#### **Collaboration with Electric Guest**

Feels Right was originally produced as an instrumental track by Compton, which he later sent to Taccone, who played it for Jepsen. Taccone had been asked to write for Jepsen the day after the instrumental was created, and together Compton and Taccone wrote four ideas using the track before sending them to Jepsen. The band would later work with Jepsen in Taccone's house in Silverlake, where they recorded vocals to the song. Sometime after, producers John Hill and Jordan Palmer were brought onto the track.

#### **Featured vocals**

Originally, Electric Guest wasn't intended to feature on the song with vocals. In an interview with Billboard, the band revealed that Taccone had recorded vocals to the song only as a reference track for Jepsen, which she later decided to keep in the final mix.

## **References**

1. ↑ *Dedicated* (album booklet). Carly Rae Jepsen. 604 Records, School Boy Records and Interscope Records. 2019.
2. ↑ Riddell, Rose "Interview: Electric Guest on their new album 'Kin'" Coup de Main, October 31st 2019. Retrieved October 9th 2021.
3. ↑ BUILD Series "Electric Guest Loved Collaborating With Portugal. The Man And Carly Rae Jepsen" YouTube, October 18th 2019. Retrieved October 9th 2021.
4. ↑ Rowley, Glenn "How Electric Guest Embraced Pop and Made Their New Album 'Kin,' A Love Letter to Chosen Family" Billboard, October 16th 2019. Retrieved October 9th 2021.