Watch Carly Rae Jepsen's 'Don't Leave Me on the Dance Floor' Video

08-07-2026

Carly Rae Jepsen has released her brand new single "Don't Leave Me on the Dance Floor", along with an official music video. The song comes from her forthcoming 24-track double album Day and Night and she co-wrote the single with producers CJ Baran and Arthur Besnainou.

Jepsen recalls, "I'd just been recording in Sweden and then traveled to London to see ABBA Voyage. I came home with a mission of making my own ABBA-esque pop song - something with a perfect pop melody, but with some updated production. I wanted a hook that made you feel like you had to participate and sing along."

Her label had this to say about the video: Playwright/actor/screenwriter Jeremy O. Harris makes his music video directorial debut with "Don't Leave Me on the Dance Floor." Harris came to prominence with Slave Play, which received 12 Tony nominations. He is also an actor (The Sweet East, Gossip Girl, Emily in Paris). Alden Ehrenreich - who won a Tony for his role in Becky Shaw and has appeared in such films as Solo: A Star Wars Story and Oppenheimer - stars alongside Jepsen in the video. After a gut-wrenching phone call with a lover, played by actress Olivia Washington, we find him in a dance hall where he begins to dance for a sparse audience. As Jepsen performs "Don't Leave Me on the Dance Floor," he moves with abandon, wrestling with his pain beneath the disco ball and chandeliers. Marc Crousillat, whose credits include Clairo's music video "Terrapin" directed by Ayo Edebiri, and Harris' Spirit of the People, served as choreographer.

"With every song on Day and Night Carly, our last modern bard, has turned complex stories into a jaunty pop smash while also mining the joys and pains of loving and being loved as adult now," says Jeremy O. Harris. "I feel so lucky that Alden and Olivia were here to play a couple on the brink in the first of Carly's night tracks, the song made me think of my relationship and so many others in this bleak moment in history who despite it all aren't abandoning their partner on the dance floor but working it out together."

Following the September 18 release of Day and Night via Interscope Records, Jepsen will headline NYC's All Things Go Festival on Sunday, September 27 - her first live performance of 2026.