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Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: Why Carly Rae Jepsen Is Grateful She Never Became a Superstar · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Back in 2012, whenever you turned on the radio, you
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  Speaker 1: could not escape Carly Rae Jepsen's Smash, Call Me Maybe.
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  Speaker 2: It was massive. It rocketed up to number one and
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  Speaker 2: pretty much made Carly a star overnight.
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  Speaker 3: It earned two Grammy nominations, and she admits it was
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  Speaker 3: all pretty overwhelming.
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  Speaker 1: And at the time, people were wondering would Carly become
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  Speaker 1: the next superstar or would she be a one-hit wonder?
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  Speaker 1: In the end, she didn't really become either. And that's
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  Speaker 1: just how she likes it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, she told Hollywood Reporter she realizes a decade and
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  Speaker 2: a half later where she's landed at this moment in
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  Speaker 2: her career is the sweet spot for her.
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  Speaker 4: She has a devoted fan base, but she can also
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  Speaker 4: live a life, go to the grocery store, have a family,
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  Speaker 4: tour music that she loves to an enthusiastic audience.
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  Speaker 1: She calls it a very hard-earned balance thing she had
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  Speaker 1: to work on to appreciate it. And she's now got
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  Speaker 1: a career that feeds the reason she chased her dreams
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  Speaker 1: to begin with. Carly Rae Jepsen's new album, Day and Night,
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  Speaker 1: is out today.
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  Speaker 3: That's direct from Hollywood.