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"Carly Rae Jepsen has revealed that Van Morrison and Leonard Cohen inspired her to make music. The singer said she grew up listening to their music thanks to her parents, explaining that she initially planned to be a folk singer.   &amp;quot;I was really touched by the fact songs could evoke an emotion and I wanted to give that to other people. I was very inspired by Van Morrison and Leonard Cohen,&amp;quot; Jepsen told Metro. &amp;quot;Leonard Cohen is one of the greatest artists of all time but I became attracted to pop music because of how fun it was and how it can make people happy and want to sing and dance along. &amp;quot;My love for pop grew slowly but surely. I&amp;#039;d go into the studio with every intention of writing a folk song but they started to turn into pop songs so I threw my hands in the air and stopped fighting it. It was around that time I wrote &amp;#039;Call Me Maybe&amp;#039;.&amp;quot; She added that she has been &amp;quot;amazed&amp;quot; by the reaction to her music, confessing that she was pleased to hear Katy Perry is a fan. Watch the video for &amp;#039;Call Me Maybe&amp;#039; below:      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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