But not everyone has heard the story straight from Jepsen herself.
“I remember getting a hysterical phone call from my younger sister Katie who was like, ‘Justin Bieber! He tweeted your song!,’” she recalls in the clip. “I was like ‘Calm down, what’s going on?’ and I went and checked it out and she was right - he had.”
“’Call Me Maybe’ had been playing on the radio for a little bit at this point,” she continued. “It had been mingling in the top 11 on iTunes within Canada and it had no life anywhere else. And Justin comes home and tweets about it and within a day it’s at No. 1 and that really was my big break.”
The video went viral, scoring one million views in 24 hours. Now that number is more than 40 million (and counting).
Two days after the video posted, Jepsen finally met Bieber at a recording studio in LA, where the pop idol had yet another surprise in store.
“We spent some time talking and hearing songs from his new album, and on the fourth song he’s like, ‘Do you like this song? If you like it, I was thinking maybe you would wanna sing on it.’”
Half an hour after they met, Jepsen was in a recording booth, unexpectedly laying down vocals for Justin Bieber’s new album as he and his entourage looked on — at least at first.
“He’d already recorded his part, so I was harmonizing with his parts,” says Jepsen, who is sworn to secrecy about the song’s details, including the title. “He was there for parts of it, [but] at one point they left the room, because I’m sure they could sense I was nervous.”
Since then, Jepsen’s life has gone bonkers, as “Call Me Maybe” has become an unstoppable Internet force.
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