For better or worse, we were almost NOT blessed with CARLY RAE JEPSEN'S masterpiece, "Call Me Maybe".  Why?  Well, because she was SUPPOSED to be recording a FOLK album, but her heart wasn't in it.

She says, "I didn't want to.  I wanted to write a pop album.  And everyday, I'd go into the studio with every intention of writing a folk album, and I'd have all these pop ideas.  At one point I threw my hands in the air and said, 'Well this is what I want to do.  Let's break all the rules and just do it.'" 

By the way, there's no word who this mysterious authority was that was demanding that Carly record a folk album.  She's on a label run by JUSTIN BIEBER'S manager, and we'd assume he's cool with pop music.  Regardless, "Call Me Maybe" could have been a folk song, and there are surely a million covers on YouTube to prove it.  Here's one by BEN HOWARD.