Carly Rae Jepsen has spent over a decade crafting some of modern pop’s most euphoric, indelible love songs, but when it comes to the real-life romance behind her own story, the defining spark didn’t happen on a grand stage.
Rather than a whirlwind Hollywood introduction, the pop icon recently pulled back the curtain on the quiet studio collaboration that unexpectedly introduced her to her future husband, Cole M.G.M., and the charming inside joke that permanently changed what flashes on her phone screen whenever he calls.
How a Single Studio Session Rewrote Carly Rae Jepsen’s Contact List
Jepsen told The Hollywood Reporter that one of the longest songs she’s ever worked on ended up being the one that introduced her to her husband.
“I think the longest was actually one of the first songs which was a song called No Labels I Love You that I wrote with my husband, who I didn’t know was going to be my husband when I met him. That was our first session together and it took a very long time to figure out how that song landed,” she recalled.
The pair spent hours in the studio hammering out the track before Jepsen headed home, not yet aware of what that day would come to mean. What happened next turned into a habit she still hasn’t broken.
“It’s actually funny cuz on the drive home from that song I was plugging his name in as you do from a session to be like who did I work with today,” she added. “His name’s Cole and I was driving so I didn’t want to text for very long and the song’s called No Labels I Love You. So I wrote Cole I Love You and I still have him saved that way today all because of that song.”
The singer didn’t stop there. She also revealed the flip side of the songwriting spectrum, naming the track Versailles as the fastest one she’s ever completed.
“The quickest was probably Versailles. It felt really effortless that song. I feel like there’s no magic when a song comes easy like that. It’s a beautiful time stamp of my life.”
What started as a routine studio session with Cole, who is a Grammy-winning producer and songwriter with credits backing heavyweights like Beck and Christine and the Queens, quietly turned into the real foundation of Jepsen’s personal life. Between co-writing records, getting engaged, and tying the knot, that original contact name hasn’t moved an inch.
For someone who made a career out of putting modern romance under a microscope, her own relationship didn’t kick off with any grand drama, just a studio meeting and a placeholder that ended up sticking for good.
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