Carly Rae Jepsen Tell Us How Her Cat-Centric 'Now That I Found You' Video Came Together

the initial thing you'll likely notice about Carly Rae Jepsen's merrily idiosyncratic new video so far That I Noticed You" is that it's as much her video as it is her co-star's. And yes, her co-star in this particular clip is a cat. Specifically, he's an orange Scottish Fold who takes center stage because the object — and in several pivotal, CGI-assisted scenes, objects (plural) — of her affection.


The bubbly track, which dropped late last month paired with the thundering bass-driven "No Drug Like You," shines as a counterpoint to 2018's "Party For One," an anthem to self-love complete with a downright euphoric video. Here, Jepsen sings, "There's nothing like this feeling, baby / Right now that I noticed you," and in the visual, the "you" just happens to be "the most adorable, fluffy, chillest cat ever," she told MTV News. It was all piece of the plan.


"After 'Party For One' was such a message of 'you can have fun with yourself,' I was a little bit nervous about just going straight from that into nevertheless right now that I noticed, everything's brilliant Jepsen mentioned. "It doesn't have to mean a love story. It could mean a passion of sorts or a cat-lady obsession. Whichever you want."


"I still wanted the videos to resemble real life in a weird way, and I'm not saying I have 100 cats and I sing to them," she continued, yet I plan to mention that it felt like a genuine progression from 'Party For One' that it's not just about a boy, nevertheless it's about a cat."


The feline in question, by the way, is Shrampton, who also appeared in Tegan and Sara's "Stop Desire" in 2016 and indeed had his own crafty table on set. With Jepsen in the vid, Shrampton has a genuine blast, tripping out on some catnip ("a late-night idea" meant to evoke the wonderfully cosmic Cats on Synthesizers in Space account), getting immortalized in a painting, and even updating the iconic Breakfast at Tiffany's ending with a little bit of a twist. The idea originally came from Jepsen herself, who'd a new cat pal enter her life around the time she willing to record the song's vocals.


"The lyrics were going through my head, and I woke up one morning and I saw the cat and I was still sort of not used to him being in my life," she mentioned. "'Waking up next to you every morning' began playing in my head and I sort of laughed out loud. I was like, that's what I want this video to be about: just a cat-lady obsession."


As she shared in a recent throwback Instagram post with co-writers Captain Cuts and producer Ayokay, right now That I Noticed You" has its roots in a songwriting camp Jepsen attended in Nicaragua, where attendees stayed in cabanas with built-in studios and may record soon after mind-clearing surf breaks. Its companion tune, "No Drug Like Me," meanwhile, got assembled "in the later eve of a session," inspired by a new love Jepsen was experiencing at the time.


These, as well as "Party For One," are among the hundreds of recorded songs Jepsen's been working diligently to whittle down to what will become a practical tracklist for her fourth album, due out later in 2019. "If by the end of this year there's no album out, something went horribly wrong," she mentioned. This is surely literal music to the ears of fans who've had "Cut to the Feeling" on repeat since 2017, thinking it was the initial taste of #CRJ4. However in the four years since her last LP, 2015's EMOTION, she's been hard at work — writing, recording, and writing some more attempt to top herself. "That energy sort of propels me forward keep attempting to beat what I already have [written]," Jepsen said.


Up until then, she's enlisting some help to compile the final version of the album. She organized a listening party for her bandmates and team members, complete with wine and food, where each person can weigh in and dance to their legs give out to what she's got lined up for now. Picture a Super Bowl party, however alternatively opposed to watching dudes crunching each other in a stadium (or a shirtless, meme-ready Adam Levine), everyone's just grooving out to new Carly Rae Jepsen music. Surely there's no drug like it.


You may not get an invite to that party (sorry), yet in the meantime, you could watch the right now That I Noticed You" video above, and catch it today (March 14) on mtvU and MTV Live. In the event you watch closely, you could even catch Jepsen's "meow"-branded workout clothes that she had bedazzled specifically for this clip. "It certainly makes the shoot day a lot more enjoyable whenever it feels like it's a baby that you've sort of birthed and been a segment of making," she said.