Jepsen releases a 24-track double album that splits into folk-leaning daytime songs and dance-forward nighttime tracks while balancing new roles as a wife, mother, and Broadway composer.
Day and Night is a 24-song double album with two distinct sides: a folk-tinged daytime half and a dance-oriented nighttime half.
Jepsen completed the project amid major life changes—marriage (Oct 2025), pregnancy and the birth of her son Ilya (March 2026)—and kept working through mixing, videos, and performances.
She’s also composing the music for a Broadway adaptation of 10 Things I Hate About You, with a creative team including Ethan Gruska, Lena Dunham, Jessica Huang, and director/choreographer Christopher Wheeldon.
Carly Rae Jepsen's new double album Day and Night arrives after a productive three-year stretch that produced The Loneliest Time (2022) and its companion The Loveliest Time (2023). Day and Night frames two musical moods: a daytime side with folk and psychedelic '70s touches and a nighttime side built for dancing but including quieter, more reflective moments.
Jepsen began with diverse impulses—folky demos and exuberant dance-pop—and settled on a physical metaphor: a house party with upstairs and downstairs. That idea became Day and Night. She wanted both variety and cohesion: daytime songs suited for a park or quieter listening, nighttime tracks that include dance-floor energy and deeper emotional content. The album's preview singles included "On Wires" and "After All" for the day half, and "Don't Leave Me on the Dancefloor" and "Motivation" for the night half.
Personal timeline and collaborators
Alongside Day and Night, Jepsen is writing the music for a Broadway version of 10 Things I Hate About You with co-writer Ethan Gruska. The book is being written by Lena Dunham and Jessica Huang, and Christopher Wheeldon is set to direct and choreograph. The musical is scheduled to arrive on Broadway in 2027.
What this means for Jepsen's career
The project follows a steady pattern in Jepsen's career: she continues to expand beyond the pop single model into longer, concept-driven work and theatrical composition while maintaining the pop instincts that defined earlier hits. Day and Night intentionally offers contrasts—light and shadow, simple and layered arrangements—to give listeners different entry points across 24 songs.
Day and Night presents Jepsen at a busy and deliberate creative moment: she's balancing parenthood and marriage with a wide-ranging musical statement that intentionally plays with contrast. The double-album format lets her deliver both gentle, folky songs and kinetic dance tracks while continuing to expand into theater composition.
At 40, the pop star is a new mother, writing for Broadway, and making some of the best music of her career.
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