Carly Rae Jepsen Explains Her Scooter Braun Exit

Carly Rae Jepsen has finally put her split from Scooter Braun’s management into her own words. In a new profile published this week, the Canadian pop singer said the professional relationship ended because her creative direction no longer matched what Braun’s team understood her to be pursuing.

A move toward a less mainstream path

Jepsen described wanting to make work that felt less mainstream, while making clear that the separation did not come from a personal feud. Her account presents the decision as an amicable recognition that artist and manager were headed in different directions. Rather than force the partnership, she chose to leave and rebuild around a team better suited to her goals.

The singer also revealed a practical link between the old and new chapters: one of Braun’s former employees joined her new management setup. Jepsen said finding the right team took time, but she now feels happier and freer to explore. That distinction matters because the change concerned management, not her record deal. She has remained with Interscope Records.

Reports of Jepsen’s departure first surfaced in 2023, when her representative confirmed that she had ended the professional relationship without publicly detailing why. Her latest comments now supply the missing explanation directly from the artist.

New music puts the decision in context

The timing gives the story more weight than a retrospective industry anecdote. Jepsen is preparing to release Day and Night, described as her seventh album for Interscope, on September 18. She has also been working on music for an upcoming Broadway project, extending her creative activity beyond a conventional pop-album cycle.

For an artist still closely associated with the global breakthrough of “Call Me Maybe,” the management change reflects a familiar career tension: whether to repeat the broadest version of past success or protect room for experimentation. Jepsen’s explanation lands firmly on the second option, without turning the decision into a public battle. The clearest update is not simply that she left Braun’s roster, but that she now sees the departure as part of taking greater control over where her work goes next.