ooh ooh ooh I love this so far.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 13 September 2012 04:00 (8 months ago) Permalink
knights in satan's service
― lord sitar and peter gunz (get bent), Thursday, 13 September 2012 04:01 (8 months ago) Permalink
Sped up Sam Cooke sample in the opening track is cuet. This Kiss just started. I heard it the other day and it quickly became an earworm.
I had no idea I'd be so excited about hearing this tbh.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 13 September 2012 04:02 (8 months ago) Permalink
It would've been really funny if they'd left Call Me Maybe off the proper album. This is probably the thousandth time I've heard this song, but I've never hated it and still don't.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 13 September 2012 04:05 (8 months ago) Permalink
First time hearing this song with Owl City. *delete
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 13 September 2012 04:12 (8 months ago) Permalink
yeah this album is pretty cool
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 13 September 2012 04:13 (8 months ago) Permalink
use of interpunct = this album is for creeps
― r|t|c, Thursday, 13 September 2012 06:26 (8 months ago) Permalink
She's older than I am.
― tuomas without a nose ring (The Reverend), Thursday, 13 September 2012 07:18 (8 months ago) Permalink
I do not want to hear her song with Owl City as I do not want to hear any song with Owl City
― with the ghostly "YOOOOOOOOOOOOHHOOOO" vocals? (crüt), Thursday, 13 September 2012 07:24 (8 months ago) Permalink
P IS S
S S
― Hungry4Ass, Thursday, 13 September 2012 07:40 (8 months ago) Permalink
the owl city song sounds like some alternate version of california gurls
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 13 September 2012 08:01 (8 months ago) Permalink
keep it simple, stupid
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 13 September 2012 08:02 (8 months ago) Permalink
not a big fan of restructuring records but this is seriously my album of the year if you replace "good time" with "sweetie" and "beautiful" with "drive"
"drive" is super incredible
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Thursday, 13 September 2012 08:42 (8 months ago) Permalink
such a surprisingly awesome album, totally expected it to be Call Me Maybe + filler but no! almost every song is great! the middle 8 of "hurt so good">>>>>>>>>
― lex pretend, Thursday, 13 September 2012 10:26 (8 months ago) Permalink
love it
― hardhouse banter (tpp), Thursday, 13 September 2012 12:47 (8 months ago) Permalink
"turn me up" is just so so so great
― monotony, Thursday, 13 September 2012 13:11 (8 months ago) Permalink
best synth sound in the world is in the chorus of "guitar string/wedding ring"
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Thursday, 13 September 2012 13:58 (8 months ago) Permalink
like moving jelly
This is fantastic.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 13 September 2012 18:32 (8 months ago) Permalink
I love this album a lot a lot
― would smash pumpkins (Ówen P.), Thursday, 13 September 2012 18:37 (8 months ago) Permalink
Which itself sounded like some alternate version of "Tik Tok".
― LeRooLeRoo, Thursday, 13 September 2012 21:36 (8 months ago) Permalink
And "Tik Tok" > "California Gurls" > "Good Time"
― LeRooLeRoo, Thursday, 13 September 2012 21:37 (8 months ago) Permalink
"Hurt So Good" is supposed to be an Amy Grant rewrite, right? (This album is awesome sans "Call Me Maybe," "Good Time," and "Beautiful" with "Drive," "I Know You Have a Girlfriend," and "Sweetie" instead.)
― cr4bdbgs, Thursday, 13 September 2012 22:16 (8 months ago) Permalink
sans "Call Me Maybe,"
what the hell no
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Friday, 14 September 2012 05:49 (8 months ago) Permalink
picture me trollin
― J0rdan S., Friday, 14 September 2012 05:52 (8 months ago) Permalink
I can't even see why you'd listen to this album if you didn't like "Call Me Maybe". I mean, I love that song and everyone is saying this is great and I'm still having a hard time mustering up any enthusiasm to check it out.
― tuomas without a nose ring (The Reverend), Friday, 14 September 2012 07:08 (8 months ago) Permalink
i felt the same - before i was actually commissioned to review it i didn't really have any interest in it. it keeps on giving though.
― lex pretend, Friday, 14 September 2012 07:21 (8 months ago) Permalink
i liked 'call me maybe' fine but this album p much just got on my nerves tbh
― r|t|c, Friday, 14 September 2012 07:53 (8 months ago) Permalink
I didn't get rid of "Call Me Maybe" because I didn't like it, just that it's jarring to listen to with a bunch of songs I haven't heard a million times. It should have been the last track. Album sounds better with the bonus tracks at the front anyway.
― cr4bdbgs, Friday, 14 September 2012 13:00 (8 months ago) Permalink
kinda agree with rtc, this album feels p tedious first time through
― dayo, Friday, 14 September 2012 13:01 (8 months ago) Permalink
this is a great lp, but it's sort of depressing that even after CMM was SO massive, the label still think she needs to have some really shitty crossover collabs on there. it doesn't need them.
― Jamie_ATP, Friday, 14 September 2012 13:10 (8 months ago) Permalink
i will never forgive gibbard for this owl city bullshit
^^^^
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 14 September 2012 13:32 (8 months ago) Permalink
the more i hear it i think there are some good bits - some really good bits - on this album but i very much sympathise with finding it problematic in relation to 'call me maybe'. consider what makes that record pop out so much on the radio, the kinda classic sturdier sound feeding into latent nostalgia, the whole angle on her being a tad older, and it's basically a microcosm for how it sits on the album - even while most of the songs as written and performed mine a complementary cyndi lauper/cars vibe (whatever man let's not get picky) the production on pretty much all of them tap back into that shriller modern all-american katy perry lmfao max martin rictus that in its eagerness to press home the good times becomes kinda gruelling, claustrophobic, relentless. and in the end feels like a tide crj has to swim against
whereas without 'cmm' on there you would feel idk, a little more braced for the whole thing i guess?
― r|t|c, Friday, 14 September 2012 13:36 (8 months ago) Permalink
but lol albums anyway as ever, this'll have a bunch of fun singles so
― r|t|c, Friday, 14 September 2012 13:39 (8 months ago) Permalink
relentlessLY FUN
― hardhouse banter (tpp), Friday, 14 September 2012 14:09 (8 months ago) Permalink
we have a thread now!
yeah, this is great. first listen was ok but it's pretty much amazing all the time now that i've deleted owl city and bieber.
bonus tracks are uniformly great - should be integrated into the album as a whole. the house-y remix of curiosity seemed kind of unnecessary, but the mellow electropop o.g. fit in on the EP but wouldn't have belonged on this. and yeah, Call Me Maybe, while amazing, doesn't fit in with the vibe of the rest of the album. sticking it at the end gives a sort of release.
i dig the tracklist that cr4bdbgs posted somewhere, although part of me really enjoys the fact that the album opens with that awesome sam cooke sample:
DriveTiny Little BowsThis KissI Know You Have a GirlfriendSweetieCuriosityMore Than a MemoryTurn Me UpHurt So GoodWrong Feels So RightTonight I'm Getting Over YouGuitar String/Wedding RingYour Heart Is a MuscleCall Me Maybe
Anyway, the main lesson from this album is that more pop albums should feature disco strings + slap bass.
― twinkin' and drinkin' and ready to fly (Alex in Montreal), Friday, 14 September 2012 14:09 (8 months ago) Permalink
and idk, i've never been a huge fan of the forced rictus of fun Katy Perry steez and I don't get that vibe here, no matter how up tempo it is?
― twinkin' and drinkin' and ready to fly (Alex in Montreal), Friday, 14 September 2012 14:10 (8 months ago) Permalink
also, while there are definitely a lot of the usual suspects on here about a quarter of the non bieber/owlcity stuff is co-written by her boyfriend, who's some random nyc musician i guess? and at least one or two other tracks that were done by canadian industry folks
― twinkin' and drinkin' and ready to fly (Alex in Montreal), Friday, 14 September 2012 14:15 (8 months ago) Permalink
even while most of the songs as written and performed mine a complementary cyndi lauper/cars vibe (whatever man let's not get picky) the production on pretty much all of them tap back into that shriller modern all-american katy perry lmfao max martin rictus that in its eagerness to press home the good times becomes kinda gruelling
Yeah that makes sense to me, only the CRJ album has made me realise I actually like that sound when it's called into the service of an actually decent set of songs and a singer with a bit of charm.
― Matt DC, Friday, 14 September 2012 15:08 (8 months ago) Permalink
i think it was indeed the disco string and slap bass that did it for me. if it had been turned up to chic/level 42 levels this would be the best album ever made.
― Jamie_ATP, Friday, 14 September 2012 15:18 (8 months ago) Permalink
i kinda disagree completely about the modern shrillness thing - CRJ doesn't have the persona(lity) to be all up in your face being obnoxious and personality-heavy like katy perry et al, even on the album's most obvious nod to the guettadrop there's something completely lite and weightless about it (plus it works because it's the only one)
― lex pretend, Friday, 14 September 2012 15:51 (8 months ago) Permalink
He's not really talking about the vocals though. The production is pretty in-your-face throughout really, bar two or three songs.
― Matt DC, Friday, 14 September 2012 16:07 (8 months ago) Permalink
also, for those of you who do find that production in your face *and those who don't* apparently no one outside canada got the Curiosity EP that originally contained Call Me Maybe?
It was supposed to be her 2nd LP and then got reduced to an EP. Call Me Maybe aside it's charming midtempo electropop, including the original mix of Curiosity and a cover of Both Sides Now.
― twinkin' and drinkin' and ready to fly (Alex in Montreal), Friday, 14 September 2012 16:36 (8 months ago) Permalink
― twinkin' and drinkin' and ready to fly (Alex in Montreal), Friday, 14 September 2012 16:37 (8 months ago) Permalink
― twinkin' and drinkin' and ready to fly (Alex in Montreal), Friday, 14 September 2012 16:38 (8 months ago) Permalink
I remember seeing that EP in stores, but I think they pulled it back out once "Call Me Maybe" started to blow up. That or it sold out really, really quickly, since I could never find it again once I was interested.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 14 September 2012 16:38 (8 months ago) Permalink
Anyway, if you like her and/or her song but don't like the super-aggressive thump, this might be more to your taste.
Her first album is super folky in a Mraz sort of way, with the exception of the title track, 'Tug of War', which is sort of folk-trance and is pretty lovely:
― twinkin' and drinkin' and ready to fly (Alex in Montreal), Friday, 14 September 2012 16:39 (8 months ago) Permalink
Tug of War is pretty nice.
Where did she place in Canadian Idol? Did she win?
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 14 September 2012 17:32 (8 months ago) Permalink
iirc, they let everyone on Canadian Idol finish first, because, well, it would just be rude to let so many people down, you know?
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 14 September 2012 17:33 (8 months ago) Permalink
From Katharine St. Asaph: How the Internet Killed Carly Rae Jepsen.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 23 October 2012 15:13 (6 months ago) Permalink
the stretch of good time > more than a memory > turn me up is p stellar
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 23 October 2012 15:16 (6 months ago) Permalink
Great article. Thanks for pointing it out Ned.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 23 October 2012 15:30 (6 months ago) Permalink
ya, v good
even still though, meme-mummify-maim is not binding, it's still an opportunity however complicated; crj has a lot going for her, more than most, and it has to go down as a bigtime industry fumble if they can't keep her ball rolling for at very least a few singles more
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 23 October 2012 15:52 (6 months ago) Permalink
so this is good huh?
― well if it isn't old 11 cameras simon (gbx), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 16:03 (6 months ago) Permalink
i want her to do a video for "i know you have a girlfriend" where she's in a harsh white spotlight, a trio behind her, small drumkit, her backup band looking like young joe jackson session guys, all of them with microphones for bg vocals which they perform early and often, and carly with her own strat that she jerks smartly around for the chorus, everything FIXED UP and lookin SHARP
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 16:05 (6 months ago) Permalink
^ fantastic idea!
― Bout to go Jethro TULL on that ass (Johnny Fever), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 16:12 (6 months ago) Permalink
gbx, this is really really good.
― twinkin' and drinkin' and ready to fly (Alex in Montreal), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 18:17 (6 months ago) Permalink
and tracer, that sounds AMAZING
Katherine otm. "Your Heart is a Muscle" and "This Kiss" are at least as good as "Call Me Maybe." The album overall is stronger and tougher than Red, actually.
― the ones that I'm near most: fellow outcasts and ilxors (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 18:44 (6 months ago) Permalink
ehh the album is pretty lame and there were one hit wonders before the youtube era
― 乒乓, Tuesday, 23 October 2012 18:45 (6 months ago) Permalink
it's not your father's one-hit wonder though
― the ones that I'm near most: fellow outcasts and ilxors (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 18:46 (6 months ago) Permalink
my three year old is cuckoo for "good time" -- gotta mean something, right?
― tylerw, Tuesday, 23 October 2012 18:59 (6 months ago) Permalink
― 乒乓, Tuesday, 23 October 2012 19:00 (6 months ago) Permalink
is that the owl city guy? he is the voice of my daughter's generation.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 23 October 2012 19:02 (6 months ago) Permalink
i don't think there's any way in hell i'd listen to this album all the way through, yet i love or like every song on it apart from the duets.
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 21:15 (6 months ago) Permalink
I like the color palettes in this video, though I feel like the song is now about 5 years old. Why'd they take so long to make a video?
― Bout to go Jethro TULL on that ass (Johnny Fever), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 19:25 (6 months ago) Permalink
truly chilling words.
― crüt, Tuesday, 30 October 2012 19:52 (6 months ago) Permalink
the song it's following up only fell out of the top 10 last week, they're just staggering the singles in the usual way (xpost)
― Victory Goon (some dude), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 19:53 (6 months ago) Permalink
this song would have been a great summer jam had "call me maybe" not snatched that title away from every other song in existence
― teledyldonix, Tuesday, 30 October 2012 23:00 (6 months ago) Permalink
Katherine otm. "Your Heart is a Muscle" and "This Kiss" are at least as good as "Call Me Maybe
I can see it with 'This Kiss' but 'You Heart Is A Muscle' is awful, largely because it's a clunky title and a very clunky lyric to use in a chorus.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 31 October 2012 09:02 (6 months ago) Permalink
Local radio finally playing "This Kiss."
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 10 November 2012 20:18 (6 months ago) Permalink
did we cover this somewhere?
i don't care about dan deacon otherwise but this is like bespoke catnip for me
― ogmor, Sunday, 13 January 2013 00:33 (4 months ago) Permalink
Started making an acid/Hague remix of this the other day after that tipped me off there was an acapella around.
― Chewshabadoo, Sunday, 13 January 2013 01:10 (4 months ago) Permalink
― markers, Sunday, 24 February 2013 18:58 (2 months ago) Permalink
not a great video tbh
― markers, Sunday, 24 February 2013 19:02 (2 months ago) Permalink
surprisingly good, i thought.
song's sounding good this aft, too.
― sean gramophone, Sunday, 24 February 2013 19:05 (2 months ago) Permalink
I forget who brought up the idea that this would make a really good mashup with dancing on my own but this was a while back when it was an album track and now that it's actually a single it might actually be possible
― katherine, Sunday, 24 February 2013 20:45 (2 months ago) Permalink
okay I had absolutely no idea that "Call Me Maybe" was mixed by Dave Ogilvie
no wonder it sounds so fucking awesome
― "Bellini." (DJP), Tuesday, 5 March 2013 20:36 (2 months ago) Permalink
Would love to know if whoever did that mashup with NIN already knew -- I suspect they did.
http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/sep12/articles/it-0912.htm
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 5 March 2013 20:38 (2 months ago) Permalink
I just came here to post that. It is truly inspired.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 5 March 2013 20:40 (2 months ago) Permalink
http://www.theverge.com/2013/3/4/4064574/nins-head-like-a-hole-mashed-with-call-me-maybe-is-perfect
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 5 March 2013 20:41 (2 months ago) Permalink
I think it's weak and lazy as fuck, but whatever.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 5 March 2013 20:44 (2 months ago) Permalink
we'll all be over here not caring
― "Bellini." (DJP), Tuesday, 5 March 2013 20:45 (2 months ago) Permalink
:D
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 5 March 2013 20:46 (2 months ago) Permalink
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― Harlem vs Alabama (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Tuesday, 5 March 2013 20:47 (2 months ago) Permalink
WAKE UP SHEEPLE!
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 5 March 2013 20:47 (2 months ago) Permalink
"Call Me Maybe" singer cancels Boy Scout concert over gay ban
Canadian pop singer Carly Rae Jepsen on Tuesday pulled out of a concert for the Boy Scouts of America because of the organization's ban on gay members, becoming the second headliner to pull out of the Scouts' Summer Jamboree show.
Jepsen, whose hit single "Call Me Maybe" was nominated for Grammy Song of the Year, said on Twitter that she would not perform for the Boy Scouts because of her support for gay rights.
"I always have and will continue to support the LGBT community on a global level," Jepsen, 27, said.
Rock band Train also said last week they would not play the concert at the Boy Scouts' National Summer Jamboree, set for July in West Virginia, unless the youth organization changed its ban on gay participants.
Yahoo! News
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Wednesday, 6 March 2013 10:21 (2 months ago) Permalink
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 5 March 2013 20:38 (Yesterday) Bookmark
didnt understand a lick of this article but i loved reading it anyway
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 6 March 2013 10:34 (2 months ago) Permalink
Very nice SOS article, and good to see Carly is right-on too.
When I found out there was a Call Me Maybe acapella a few months back I started work on an acid remix one afternoon. I never got around to going back to it, so here’s the demo version: https://www.dropbox.com/s/10coepmcis43xvr/Matty%20Balaam%20-%20Call%20Mescaline%20%28Super%20early%20demo%29.ogg
― Chewshabadoo, Wednesday, 6 March 2013 11:48 (2 months ago) Permalink
Cal me maybe
― mookieproof, Monday, 8 April 2013 02:40 (1 month ago) Permalink
call me mookie
― markers, Monday, 8 April 2013 02:44 (1 month ago) Permalink
No, he was contestant on the following season of Canadian Idol.
― MarkoP, Monday, 8 April 2013 04:04 (1 month ago) Permalink
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=R2n4BKQTGN0
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― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, 3 May 2013 15:56 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
Is it just me or are there quite a few lyrical curveballs in this album?
― boxedjoy, Friday, 3 May 2013 18:53 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
not just u
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Friday, 3 May 2013 21:09 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
i mean heck there are like five (i'm not counting) in "tonight i'm getting over you" alone
New song from some Pepsi thing where fans could pick the lyrics: https://soundcloud.com/mightytong/carly-rae-jepsen-take-a
― Greer, Thursday, 16 May 2013 20:24 (6 days ago) Permalink
that's fun
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Thursday, 16 May 2013 20:35 (6 days ago) Permalink
Very much addicted to "Take a Picture" now. Thank you based Carly Rae.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Tuesday, 21 May 2013 06:41 (Yesterday) Permalink