Carly Rae Jepsen in no hurry to release new album

Singer Carly Rae Jepsen is taking her time to pick the best songs she has penned for her new album.

The '

Call Me Maybe

' hitmaker does not want to rush release her follow-up to 2015's '

Emotion

' or go with tracks which seem the most obvious choice.


Giving an update on the much-awaited release, she said, "I am writing, I can tell you that. This is the favourite part of what I do and that's the creating a body of work.

"So when I am in this stage it is like getting tunnel vision. Whenever I am offered something I ask myself if it takes away from the album. Part of the process is over- writing. Like for this next project I am already 75 songs deep."

"I think I am nearly done with that and the next step is figuring out what is the cream of the crop from that group."