Carly Rae Jepsen • Kiss

use of the • in the title very prescient E•MO•TION

龜 wrote this at 2015-06-03 13:30:39.000

Lol finally got this

― how's life, Friday, 5 June 2015 09:46

still don't get this :/

where can I hear "Run Away With Me"?

you can hear the whole album now as it just leaked a couple hours ago!

http://www.josepvinaixa.com/blog/carly-rae-jepsen-run-away-with-me/

xp

@niels the • is in the title of this thread and also in the album title

This album is amazing.

well this album is >>>>>>>>>>>>

surprised that i don't wish any of the bonus tracks were on the proper record. love "never get to hold you" though

This album is incredible.

haven't heard the album yet but still can't get over how good "run away with me is". might already be my favorite song from her yet.

"Run Away With Me" and "I Really Like You" are both otherwise-great pop songs ruined by the cheesy quiet third verse/buildup to the final chorus, which is a trope I really, really, really, really, really, really cannot abide

who gave you ideas like that, said you could keep them

i know, i know.

Let's Get Lost really hitting the spot

gimme love gimme love gimme love gimme love

"making the most of the night" is like a perfectly curved disco chorus

i've only listened to this precisely once so far but...possible AOTY??

boy trouble, we've got double

You have to go 14 songs deep in this record to find one that's not really so good.

Are you referring to I Didn't Just Come Here To Dance? That's probably my favourite of the bonus tracks.

Yes, ew. The ones immediately after it are great though! Especially "Favorite Colour."

EXCUSE ME

fuck i love this album

i think i broke up with my boyfriend today and i

don't really caaaaare

goddamnit you guys are tempting me to break the law

"YOU MAKE ME FEEL LIKE I COULD BE DRIVING YOU ALL NIGHT / AND I'LL FIND YOUR LIPS IN THE STREET LIGHTS / I WANNA BE THERE WITH YOUUUU"

i love "never get to hold you," it's like "time after time" as reimagined by kavinsky

Man the first 9 tracks are such a perfect run. The chorus of Making the Most of the Night is a huge highlight.

definitely agree, i feel like the sequencing makes "all that" sound a lot better than it did on its own

The chorus to Love Again sounds so similar to something else but I can't quite place it. The closest thing I can think of is Bizarre Love Triangle but I'm not sure that's it. Anyone else have any ideas?

Something this album really has going for it that Kiss didn't is the cohesiveness in sound.
The fact I Really Like You sounds far more at home here than Call Me Maybe (or Good Time) did on Kiss is a real testament to that I think.

Absolutely agreed.

We should probably just make this the general CRJ thread. Mod want to abridge the title?

Well Call Me Maybe was written for a very different album that got scrapped and Kiss was quickly slapped together in the aftermath of that song's unexpected hugeness. That clearly wasn't the case with this album.

Can I just lol for a moment at the label? If this had been surprise released today, I would have been the first to lay down some cash on it. As it is, though, it's not even coming out in the US for, idk, a few more months. WTG label dudes.

i'm still buying the shit out of this record but yeah. "making the most of the night" is like... everything i love about pop music

For a slapped together album Kiss is still pretty terrific. Early impressions are this one blows it out of the water though.

IDK if she'll ever have another big hit again but if not I hope she can somehow succeed as a writer for other major artists. Some of the toplines on this album are phenomenal.

She is clearly an idea machine songwise... not sure if all these tracks come together but it's a fun, cohesive listen.

What are the odds the release date gets pushed up? 2 months between Japan and the rest of the world is insane.

idk i haven't seen labels renege on such decisions before but maybe my memory is selective

i guess they think/hope the second single will do well or something. (which it might! stranger things have happened.) idk why it's *just* japan to get the early date tho, it's not like that was the only country where "i really like you" did well.

i love "making the most" (and "love again," an outtake apparently – no idea why, the verse progression alone makes it a nice change of pace), plus "your type" through "LA hallucinations" is nice. feels like an upgraded 1989. but on the whole, it's a record that avoids even suggesting anything unexpected, and it feels samier to me than weezer's green album. i'm happy to cherrypick the winners, though

You know, I was just thinking about comparing this to the green album, but instead of "samier" I was going to say "perfect work of art". Is it the summer of 2001 all over again?

Why doesn't this have its own thread though?

the green album is awesome! not perfect, per se, but few albums employ sameyness to such effective ends. i wouldn't rank emotion among them, but green took a while to crack so i'll give this one time too i guess.

idk what this album could do that would be 'unexpected' and make it better than it already is, it's pretty great at what it does. idk about 'samey' either, every track feels distinct enough while still very cohesive as a whole. think the weakest point is probably LA Hallucinations/Warm Blood, but pretty much everything else is excellent

Just adding to the general noise that this album is amazing.

Just realized that this thread is more than 50% discussion of E•Mo•Tion.

The album is so stylistically homogenous that the only bonus track I think would've been fine on the standard album is Never Get To Hold You.

it's only me that feels a lot of the 1975 vibes in 'let's get lost'?
the album is truly amazing.

no i am there with you nourry

this album is really unified which i think is distinct from "samey." the songs take really different shapes in the same context.

that synthetic bass (sounds a bit like boomwhackers?) on Gimmie Love is just great

Gimme Love is phoenominal