Carly Rae Jepsen is releasing a 24-track double album, welcoming her first child, and moving into Broadway, all at once. Day and Night lands Sept 18, the singer says she and her husband, producer Cole Marsden Greif-Neill, married at the Chelsea Hotel in 2025 and welcomed a son named Ilya earlier this year, and she is developing a stage adaptation of 10 Things I Hate About You set for Broadway in 2027.
The Story in Pictures
Jepsen frames the record as two complementary moods. The Day half leans toward storytelling and domestic fantasies, while Night sketches more immediate, experiential songs. The first song she wrote for the project, and the first she wrote with Greif-Neill, is an uptempo track called "No Labels, I Love You." She describes the album as born of a prolific, transitional period after meeting her collaborator at a songwriting session in May 2021 and beginning a relationship the following year.
The musical work runs parallel to her pop commitments. Jepsen wrote the music and lyrics for the Broadway adaptation with her writing partner Ethan Gruska, while the book is handled by Lena Dunham and Jessica Huang. She is in New York for press and meetings related to both the album release and the stage project, and she described the logistical juggling that comes with a newborn and promotion, "I literally pumped on the way over to see you!", while Greif-Neill stayed at the hotel on baby duty.
Musically, Jepsen says she drew from a broad palette, jazz, classical, grunge, bossa nova, and pop touchstones such as ABBA. She cites specific influences she aimed to evoke rather than copy, noting attempts at a 1970s Minnie Riperton sensibility on a track called "Blue Skies" and the recent work of Dijon as stimulants during the record's final stages. Personal themes threaded through the lyrics include falling in love and imagining parenthood; the song "After All" explores the idea of saying yes to that future.
Jepsen also described how conversations with other artists and family informed her approach to combining career and parenting. She told friends and mentors she worried about the tradeoffs of motherhood for a performer, and recalls advice that helped reshape those expectations. What comes next is immediate: the album arrives Sept 18, and the Broadway production is slated for 2027, leaving Jepsen to navigate promotion, parenting, and the demands of mounting a show simultaneously.
