Carly Rae Jepsen is proving, single after single, that her double album will be one of the essential releases for pop fans this 2026. Following the epic ‘On Wires’, the retro ‘After All’ and the classic ‘Don’t Leave Me On The Dancefloor’, the Canadian artist continues to showcase her broad versatility with ‘Motivation’.
Described as an “ode to all the different forms a family can take”, and just like the preceding single, ‘Motivation’ is crafted to both make you dance and move you to emotion. This time, through house and EDM. It’s the Track of the Day.
«Keep me in a little box and I’ll travel around the world with you / Give me the motivation», sings a chorus in the opening seconds of the song, which also makes it clear that this is the sweetest track of all the previews from ‘Day and Night’. Carly Rae Jepsen dedicates ‘Motivation’ to her family, in which, as in all families, there is room for both love and for the “madness”.
The succession of phrases in which Jepsen asserts that «we love this family to the max» and that she is «in love with my family», despite its disagreements, provides a perfect backdrop to the song’s liberating instrumental break. Songs like these are capable of instantly transporting you back to when things were greener.
