Whatever Happened To The Guy From The Call Me Maybe Music Video?

The year was 2012: the world welcomed Blue Ivy Carter, we got a Spice Girls reunion at the London Olympics, and a little ditty by a Canadian crooner was tearing up the charts. That summer, Carly Rae Jepsen's "Call Me Maybe" was a bonafide craze. The song topped the Billboard Hot 100 for nine consecutive weeks and sparked a viral dance craze with a little help from the Harvard baseball team. The song is the musical equivalent to your favorite ice cream on a hot summer day — cool and fun and no matter how many times you have it, you just can't seem to get sick of it, even nearly a decade later.

Of course, it wasn't just the song that etched itself in pop culture for all eternity; there was also that music video. The clip shows Jepsen thirsting over her hunky neighbor boy, imagining them in various romantic situations until the big reveal stops her in her tracks. As she sings her last "call me maybe," the neighbor boy hands his number to her male band member.

While this may seem like not a big deal now, the world was different in 2012; the music video came out in March, a full two months before then-President Barack Obama went on the record to support gay marriage. But while the music video was a hit and is still remembered fondly, there was one person who was less than thrilled: the boy next door himself, Holden Nowell.