Carly Rae Jepsen has released her new song “Don’t Leave Me on the Dance Floor”. The song comes from her upcoming album Day and Night, which will feature 24 songs, including the previously released singles from the album, “On Wires” and “After All”. The album concept follows 12 days and 12 nights of Jepsen’s life. It’s a similar concept to t. Day and Night will be released on September 18th via Interscope Records, before she headlines All Things Go Festival in New York City on September 27th.
Interestingly, “Don’t Leave Me on the Dance Floor” is the first song to be released that represents a night from Jepsen’s days and nights that made up the inspiration behind the album. The song is a fun pop track intertwined with introspectiveness and emotion, which seems to be a signature in the music Jepsen creates. About the song, Jepsen shares, “I’d just been recording in Sweden and then traveled to London to see ABBA Voyage. I came home with a mission of making my own ABBA-esque pop song – something with a perfect pop melody, but with some updated production. I wanted a hook that made you feel like you had to participate and sing along.”
The song also came with a music video, directed by the playwright, actor, and screenwriter, Jeremy O. Harris. This is actually his directorial debut, after he received 12 Tony nominations from his work in Slave Play. You also might recognize Harris from the TV shows Gossip Girl or Emily in Paris. About directing the video, Harris says, “With every song on Day and Night Carly, our last modern bard, has turned complex stories into a jaunty pop smash while also mining the joys and pains of loving and being loved as adults now. I feel so lucky that Alden and Olivia were here to play a couple on the brink in the first of Carly’s night tracks, the song made me think of my relationship and so many others in this bleak moment in history who despite it all aren’t abandoning their partner on the dance floor but working it out together.”
The video stars Jepsen and Alden Ehrenreich from the play Becky Shaw and the film Solo: A Star Wars Story as well as Oppenheimer. In the video, Ehrenreich embraces the music under a disco ball, dancing through his pain, as Jepsen performs. According to the song’s press release, Ehrenreich’s character is meant to portray a sense of dancing through pain and abandonment. Check out the song and video below!
