Coca-Cola Captures the Moment When Multi-Platinum, Grammy-Nominated Pop Sensation Carly Rae Jepsen Performs Her New Song, “Take a Picture,” Tonight on the Season Finale of “AMERICAN IDOL”
People across the country have spoken and tonight their picks will come
to life in “Perfect Harmony” on the big stage. Weekly input from
AMERICAN IDOL® fans helped complete chart-topping
singer/songwriter Carly Rae Jepsen’s new song, “Take A Picture,” through
the Coca-Cola Perfect Harmony Program.
During the season, fans helped create the song by selecting their
favorite lyrics from a pool of options. People also were given the
opportunity to weigh in on aspects like set design, backup dancers’
wardrobe and stage effects for Jepsen’s AMERICAN IDOL® Finale
performance. The Perfect Harmony program will culminate tonight with
Jepsen performing her new single on the first part of the two-night
AMERICAN IDOL® Season 12 Finale (8-9 p.m. ET live/PT
tape-delayed) on FOX.
“Creating this song for the Coca-Cola Perfect Harmony program, in such a
massive collaboration with fans, was a cool new experience for me,” said
Jepsen. “The song is something everyone can relate to and the
performance on AMERICAN IDOL® will show all the fun aspects
that people chose. I can’t wait to see it all come together.”
During the program, fans were invited to log on to www.americanidol.com/perfectharmony
and provide input each week for Jepsen’s new song lyrics and her
performance on tonight’s AMERICAN IDOL® Season 12 Finale.
After eight phases – four focused on lyrics and four focused on
performance elements – the final track and performance details Jepsen’s
AMERICAN IDOL® performance are complete.
The winning selections include:
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Week 1 – Flying kites with boy wonder/hold tight to me all summer
(lyric)
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Week 2 – Photo shoot (performance theme)
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Week 3 – Reading my magazines/dancing in my blue jeans (lyric)
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Week 4 – Pyrotechnics (stage effects)
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Week 5 – Fireworks and night streamers/baby blue with day dreamers
(lyric)
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Week 6 – Glam sparkle (background dancers’ costumes)
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Week 7 – Under water close to me/hold my breath in my blue jeans
(lyric)
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Week 8 – Drummer (instrument spotlight)
“Coca-Cola has long believed that music has the power to bring people
together. The overwhelming response from fans participating in the
Perfect Harmony program validates our continued support of music
projects,” said Andy McMillin, VP, Coca-Cola Trademark. “With new
elements, such as allowing people to help choose production details, the
2013 program brought the collaborative experience with fans to the next
level. The Finale performance will showcase what a program like Perfect
Harmony can create.”
To celebrate the collaboration, Coca-Cola is giving away 20,000
downloads of the song following tonight’s episode of AMERICAN IDOL®.
Downloading the song is easy. Fans simply log on to www.americanidol.com/perfectharmony
and enter a unique code, which can be found under the cap or on the
packaging of any Coca-Cola product. Details on the initiative, clips of
the song, and complete terms and conditions also can be found on the
site.
Full lyrics for “Take a Picture”
Flying kites
With boy wonder
Hold tight
To me all summer
Reading
My magazines
Dancing in
My blue jeans
Pucker up in sunglasses
Making love to the flashes
Posing the
way that we do for everybody to see
Polaroid through your lashes
Only
thing that will last is
I take a picture of you taking a picture of
me
I take a picture of you taking a picture of me
I take a picture of
you taking a picture of me
Tomorrow always happens too soon
I
wish I had an electric moon
To save the light
Fireworks
And night streamers
Baby blue
With the day
dreamers
Under water
Close to me
Hold my breath
in my blue jeans
Pucker up in sunglasses
Making love to the flashes
Posing the
way that we do for everybody to see
Polaroid through your lashes
Only
thing that will last is
I take a picture of you taking a picture of
me
I take a picture of you taking a picture of me
I take a picture of
you taking a picture of me
Tomorrow always happens too soon
I
wish I had an electric moon
To save the light
I wanna live tonight
I wanna save the light
And it goes on and
on and on
And we go on and on and on
I wanna live
We
wanna live
The life! (Tonight)
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About Carly Rae Jepsen
Canadian singer/songwriter and breakout pop sensation Carly
Rae Jepsen has taken America by storm after bursting onto the scene
in the U.S. with her hit single, “Call Me Maybe.” Unforgettably catchy,
the hit song, which she co-wrote, quickly rose to the No. 1 spot on the
Billboard Hot 100 chart, where it remained for nine consecutive weeks.
Certified quintuple-platinum in Jepsen’s native Canada, the track is
also an international sensation, climbing to No. 1 on the iTunes Singles
charts in more than 47 countries, while the official video has more than
400 million YouTube views and the song has sold more than 10 million
singles worldwide to date. Follow-up platinum single “Good Time,” a duet
with Owl City, climbed to No. 3 on the pop chart, while the video has
racked up more than 84 million YouTube views. Jepsen released her debut
album, “Kiss,” on September 18 via 604 Records/Schoolboy
Records/Interscope Records. Jepsen won the 2012 American Music Award for
Best New Artist and received two 2012 GRAMMY Award nominations for Best
Pop Solo Performance and Song of the Year. Jepsen has also been
nominated for nine 2013 Billboard Music Awards and her new single,
“Tonight I’m Getting Over You,” The Remix ft. Nicki Minaj is out now.
About AMERICAN IDOL®
AMERICAN IDOL® is produced by 19 Entertainment, a division of
CORE Media Group, and FremantleMedia North America. The series is
created and executive-produced by Simon Fuller, CEO, XIX Entertainment.
Cecile Frot-Coutaz, FremantleMedia, Trish Kinane, FremantleMedia North
America; Ken Warwick, FremantleMedia North America; and Nigel Lythgoe,
CEO, Nigel Lythgoe Productions also serve as executive producers.
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