Disco Sweat (album)/Timeline

#### **July 2015**

* **July 25th:** Writing new music with Tavish Crowe - potentially I Am The Keeper

#### **October 2015**

* **October 16th:** In an interview with Rookie Mag, Jepsen states she had begun writing her next album and experimenting with an "understated disco" sound

#### **2015**

* **Unknown:** I Am The Keeper is written and recorded.

## **2016**

#### **February 2016**

* **February 16th:** \*Writing with Tavish Crowe - Carly teases new lyrics - "Painted up my lips and fingertips, hoping that the red was showing / Could of worn my heart on my wrist, with the way the night was going."

#### **April 2016**

* **April 7th:**
	+ Interview with Stereogum; Jepsen states she's been writing new music whilst on the Gimmie Love Tour since November 2015 and mentions the "understated disc sound she's been experimenting with
	+ Carly mentions new songs she's written titled Tenderly and Sails

#### **May 2016**

* **May 7th:** Recording a new song with Tavish Crowe

* **May 13th:** In an interview with Vancouver Sun, Jepsen discusses the new music she's writing:
	+ *"I can’t explain what we’re doing right now, but we’re very much into disco-y things, whatever this next album may or may not turn out to be,' she said. 'But I’m very much referencing ABBA a lot, and the Bee Gees, all of that stuff."*

* **May 16th:** Recording with Tavish Crowe
* **May 17th:** Recording with Tavish Crowe
* **May 23rd:** End of the Gimmie Love Tour
	+ Whilst on tour, Carly wrote Disco Sweat, No You, Julien, Tenderly, Emergency Love, Feels Like, So Different, Hungry Heart, Ricochet, Sails, and Four Leaf Clover with Tavish

#### **June 2016**

* **June 2nd:** Studio session in New York with Dev Hynes
* **June 3rd:** Studio session in New York with Dev Hynes
	+ Jepsen records Disco Sweat, No You, Julien, Tenderly, and Emergency Love
	+ Dev Hynes posts a snippet of Emergency Love to his socials
	+ Carly and Blood Orange record Feels Like
* **June 5th:** The leaked file of Tenderly is exported.

* **June 26th:** Jepsen visits Sweden to work on new music
	+ Carly works on writing new material for Disco Sweat with Patrik Berger
	+ At this point, Carly states she had written an extended-play's worth of music for the project.
	+ Jepsen also works with Mattman and Robin, Shellback, and Rami Yacoub whilst in Sweden and developed seven or eight new song ideas

#### **July 2016**

* **July 5th:** Writing new music with Patrik Berger and Noonie Bao in Sweden
	+ Around this time, Berger advises Jepsen that the disco influence is too constraining.
	+ Jepsen records For Sure with Berger and Bao.

* **July 11th:**
	+ Studio session with Pontus Winnberg, Patrik Berger, and Markus Krunegård
	+ Likely recorded Now I Don't Hate California After All and/or Let's Sort The Whole Thing Out

* **July 13th:** Studio session with Pontus Winnberg

* **July 2016:** You Were My Party and Summer Love were potentially written around this time in Sweden.

* **July 2016:** Whilst in Sweden, Jepsen writes Party For One in her hotel room and records the song in a session with Anton Runberg and Julia Karlsson. Fake Mona Lisa is also recorded around this time.

* **July 23rd:** Writing Super Natural with Danny L Harle, Kyle Shearer, and Nate Campany
* **July 31st:** Carly is in London writing new music - likely with Danny L Harle

#### **August 2016**

* **August 12th:** Interview with Fader magazine
	+ Jepsen states she's 'allowing [herself] the freedom to not be totally committed' to just disco
* **August 15th:**
	+ Jepsen reworks the original demo of Julien at writer's camp in Maderas Village, Nicaragua
	+ From this point on, work begins on Dedicated and Disco Sweat is scrapped entirely

## **References**

1. ↑ Gevinson, Tavi "The Next Adventure: An Interview With Carly Rae Jepsen". Rookie Magazine, October 16th 2015
2. ↑ Rettig, James "All That We Could Do With This Emotion". Stereogum, April 7th 2016
3. ↑ Connor, Shawn '"Carly Rae Jepsen wears her heart on her sleeve with Emotion"' Vancouver Sun, May 13th 2016
4. ↑ @carlyraejepsen "Writing with hero @devhynes today" (Tweet). June 3rd 2016
5. ↑ >@CARLYAGOGO "Carly Rae Jepsen and Dev Hynes in the studio! A new snippet for #CRJ4" - via Twitter
6. ↑ BlackoutZone "Dev Hynes is who she originally made Disco Sweat with and This is What They Say is indeed a track from that session" (atrl.net) May 7th 2020.
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 The BUILD Queen, Carly Rae Jepsen Is In The House! Youtube, May 29 2019.
8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Cliff, Aimee "Carly Rae Jepsen And Danny L Harle On Their PC Music Collaboration “Super Natural”" TheFader, August 12th 2016.
9. ↑ @carlyraejepsen "Writing songs and eating apples in Stockholm with #PatrikBerger and @nooniebao today" July 5th 2016 - via Instagram
10. ↑ Harding, Charlie; Sloan, Nate "How Carly Rae Jepsen whittled 200 songs down to 12 for her new album" Vox, May 26th 2020
11. ↑ "Carly Rae Jepsen hits the studio with Miike Snow’s Pontus Winnberg" hamadamania.com. July 13th 2016.
12. ↑ @the\_knocks "@carlyraejepsen’s ‘Julien’ is out today!! Took a trip down to @maderasvillage in Nicaragua with some amazing people a couple years..." April 19th 2019. Retrieved March 7th, 2021. - Via Instagram
13. ↑ @carlyraejepsen 'Nicaragua for some writing. 🎶' August 15th 2016 - via Twitter]