Carly Rae Jepsen says it would be a ‘dream’ to write Heated Rivalry song
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Canadian singer and staple of gay-guy-music-video-night Carly Rae Jepsen has said it would be a “dream” to write a song for Heated Rivalry.
The Cut To The Feeling songstress was on the wish list for the season one soundtrack, but showrunner Jacob Tierney revealed the show didn’t have the budget. He said on the What Chaos! podcast: “She was on my playlist for when I wrote, and I will definitely be asking next time. I was even gonna ask her to write a new song.”
Jepsen is yet to get the call, but it’s clear she’s a massive fan of the series.
She told The Hollywood Reporter: “It was an incredible show. Ilya is the name of my son. Maybe, not maybe because of that show.”
On the show, Russian hockey star Ilya Rozanov is played by Connor Storrie. He is one of the leads alongside Hudson Williams, who plays Shane Hollander.
The singer gave birth in March, welcoming her first child with her music producer husband Cole MGN (real name Cole Marsden Greif-Neill.
Heated Rivalry premiered late in 2025, so the timing would certainly suggest it could have been inspiration for her baby’s name.
Heated Rivalry soundtrack
While Carly Rae Jepsen did not feature on the soundtrack for Heated Rivalry season one, there was one song in particular that had everyone in a chokehold.
During a nightclub scene, in which Shane and Ilya are both dancing with somebody else but shooting longing looks at each other across the dance floor, a remix of t.A.T.u song “All The Things She Said” plays.
The cover version, by English musician Harrison, fades in after the original version.
After the episode aired, both tracks got huge boosts on streaming, with Harrison’s version getting a 114,173% increase in numbers.
Tierney told Billboard: “In a rough cut of that [club] scene, once we had the track [temporarily added], we had to figure out how to get across the tension and vibe we were chasing just based on [how long the song was playing].
“That tension that’s created when we do that… sometimes it doesn’t work. Sometimes it’s too much of the same song. Because of the tone of this series and this feeling of anticipation, it really works.”
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