Go Find Yourself or Whatever

## **Go Find Yourselfor Whatever***The Loneliest Time*

**Go Find Yourself or Whatever** is the twelfth song on Carly Rae Jepsen's fifth studio album The Loneliest Time (2022). It was released on October 21st 2022, through 604, School Boy and Interscope Records.

## **Lyrics**

**Verse 1**

Tell me that your mind’s been changing

I tell you that I’m no good at goodbyes

I could cut a thousand roses

I show you that I’m all torn up inside

**Pre-Chorus**

You feel safe in sorrow

Feel safe on an open road

Go find yourself or whatever

**Chorus**

I wake up alone, you made me vulnerable

So go find yourself or whatever

I hope it treats you better than I could do

And I’ll wait for you

♪

**Verse 2**

Tell me that we'll meet up someday

I tell you that I’m no good telling lies

Maybe when my heart’s done breaking

Then I could forgive what you've tried

**Pre-Chorus**

You feel safe in sorrow

Feel safe on an open road

Go find yourself or whatever

**Chorus**

I wake up alone, you made me vulnerable

So go find yourself or whatever

I hope it treats you better than I could do

And I’ll wait for you

**Bridge**

♪

**Verse 3**

You could spend your whole life searching

And I could spend the whole day just getting by

But every time the red moon rises

I stay up and I keep some hope inside

**Pre-Chorus**

You feel safe in sorrow

Feel safe on an open road

Go find yourself or whatever

**Chorus**

I wake up alone, you made me vulnerable

So go find yourself or whatever

I hope it treats you better than I could do

And I’ll wait for you

**Outro**

♪

## **Song credits**

#### **Writing and production**

* **Written by:** Carly Rae Jepsen • Rostam
* **Produced by:** Rostam

#### **Performance**

* **Vocals:** Carly Rae Jepsen
* **Background vocals:** Georgia Greene • Lauren Jones • Quinn D'Andrea

#### **Instrumentation**

* **Acoustic guitar:** Rostam
* **Electric bass:** Rostam
* **Electric guitar:** Rostam
* **Hammond B3:** Rostam
* **Mandolin:** Rostam
* **Percussion:** Rostam
* **Piano:** Rostam
* **Sitar:** Rostam
* **Synthesizer:** Rostam
* **Violin:** Andrew Bulbrook

#### **Technical credits**

* **Drum programming:** Rostam
* **Mixing:** Geoff Swan
* **Mastering:** Chris Allgood • Emily Lazar
* **Engineering:** Geoff Swan • Joey Messina-Doering • Rostam
* **Additional engineering:** Matt Cahill • Niko Battistini

## **Background**

Go Find Yourself or Whatever is a song from Jepsen's fifth studio album The Loneliest Time. Its title was first revealed alongside the announcement of the album's track listing on August 22nd 2022.

## **Writing and development**

Go Find Yourself or Whatever was written by Jepsen and Rostam sometime in 2021 during the development of The Loneliest Time. The song was written in "about 20 minutes" during a late-night studio session between the pair.

The song was written after a session she and Rostam had earlier that day; Carly stated, "it was around 8PM, we had wrapped up, and [Rostam] just pulled out the guitar and [started playing the chords of ‘Go Find Yourself or Whatever’], and nudged over a room mic to me, and was like, ‘Are you ready to go home?’, and I’m like ‘Ugh, okay’ and I just picked up the microphone, starting singing a few things I don’t even remember - like lyrically, even, singing about."

Rostam stated, "I started playing a riff on guitar as we were winding down, and all of a sudden Carly started singing. Neither of us expected to write a song, but we couldn’t help ourselves. I think songwriting is very instinct based. [Carly] doesn’t second guess herself in the writing process, and that brings out a lot of honesty."

"I kinda forgot about [the song], because it was a late night session, and doing two songs in a day sometimes your brain starts to play tricks on you," Carly explained. "It was about two weeks later - maybe three weeks, and Rostam sent me the demo like ‘Remember this?’ and I listened to it and I was like, ‘Huh… am I allowed to do songs like that?’"

## **Themes and lyricism**

Go Find Yourself or Whatever discusses Jepsen's feelings of frustration and longing for an emotionally unavailable partner, who broke things off between the pair in order to "go find himself." She described it as a "pretty angry song" and states writing it felt "almost diaristic," she explained, "I was coming from this mindset of, 'Well, fuck you if you don’t know what you want from life, because I’m right here!'"

Jepsen states in writing the song she wanted to "explore those middle spaces between a feeling."  She also explained how, whilst she's "definitely been in love with 'the traveller' before," that there's elements of the song that speak to her whilst on tour, as ‘the traveller’ herself - "you feel safe and sorrow, you feel safe on an open road, go find yourself or whatever."

## **Live performances**

Go Find Yourself or Whatever was debuted live prior to its release, during the first night of The So Nice Tour on September 21st 2022.  The song was played throughout the tour as a continued part of the set list.

## **References**

1. ↑ @carlyraejepsen 'Here it is… each and every song that makes up The Loneliest Time. Assembled with the utmost intention and care...' August 22nd 2022 - via Twitter
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Bell, Keaton "Carly Rae Jepsen’s Loneliest Hour" VOGUE, October 26th 2022
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 The Zane Lowe Show - Artic Monkeys and Carly Rae Jepsen Apple Music, October 18th 2022
4. ↑ Carly Rae Jepsen Go Find Yourself or Whatever Live (...) September 22nd 2022 - via YouTube