I was, I liked the song when I heard it on the radio for the first time in the spring of 2012, I didn't know who Carly Rae Jepsen was at that time. My only exposure to it was on the radio when I kept hearing it repeatedly, then I saw Justin Bieber on an episode of Ellen DeGeneres and he was the one who introduced Carly Rae Jepsen for the first time on TV in America and that was the first time I saw her perform it, then I said "So that's the girl that I keep hearing on the radio every day" I not only liked the song but I liked the bangs hanging from her forehead and the long straight hair down to her shoulders and was really pretty and the first time I ever heard or seen of her was through some silly bubble gum pop song that had a stupid name and stupid lyrics but it was the beat that I fell in love with, that made me wanna keep singing along to it and dancing around to that bassline every time it came on. Then not long after that EVERYBODY else was doing the same thing, numerous parodies, sing alongs, karaoke versions, remixes, dubs, memes and covers of of Call Me Maybe by millions of people were popping up everywhere on YouTube, television shows referenced it, the radio was playing it nonstop, all of the live performances of it with Carly returning specifically to do it live etc. It was out of control, it's no wonder she hasn't been able to top that song. The popularity of it was ubiquitous !!
