Carly Rae Jepsen • Kiss

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

Walking to work with this album and a coffee has set an impossibly high mark for the rest of the day to attain. This day can now only go downhill. But it's worth it. Really digging this.

yea Nourry, def otm with the 1975 comparison

xp I don't hear same-iness or Green Album vibe at all, unless you're referring to pop structure. I suppose I should listen a 2nd time though.

i didn't just come here to dance
if you know what I mean
do you know what I mean

xp For my part, I wasn't really serious with my green album comparison, but I see where soyrev was going with that. I just chimed in because I have to defend that album from all slights. That's what I do here.

otoh, one of the songs I listened to this morning gave me an early NIN vibe.

well, i said "samier than" green, not "similar to"...musically it's totally different. green is just my go-to samey album (the sameyness of which, to be clear, i adore – it's hypnotic in a way i haven't encountered in any other pop record).

i gave this one another go tonight and i can tell my fundamental gripe probably isn't going to change all too much, but a few tracks are settling in a bit more deeply.

curious, does everyone here who's loving it also love 1989?

I did not love 1989 but I haven't listened to that since it came out, other than the radio singles.

I would have been very disappointed had this album not included a song called "Boy Problems."

I like a few tracks from 1989 but it's my least favorite Taylor Swift album. I love Kiss and this though.

def has some of the same lyrical themes as 1989

I am loving it, but love 1989 more

I loved 1989 for 2 or 3 weeks and then it just silently fell out of my rotation. I'll let you know in another 3 weeks if this one does the same (though my immediate impressions are that it's a much stronger album and something I'm likely to keep listening to for longer).

to me 1989 rocks a really similar vibe in terms of production and songwriting, way moreso than recent records by other artists we could at least superficially lump together w/ carly (i.e. katy, miley, etc). as someone who likes a lot of taylor's previous records i find 1989 pretty hollow, and emotion is definitely better imo, but it's like 1989+ to my ears which is maybe part of why i've been slow to warm to it (but "make the most" chorus is definitely one of the pop highlights of the year for me, and a lot of these songs are really nice/have been playlisted)

i love 1989, this better executes what 1989 was suggested as, i.e. it actually resembles '80s pop, whereas 1989 felt like sort of a weird minimal and spectral idea of '90s pop for the most part

also i don't have to alter emotion's tracklisting to even listen to it

not that it matters, but i didn't mean an emotion playlist, i just maintain some 200+ playlists that i constantly add songs to and a handful or two of these make the cut yes yes

A lot of this feels to me like a logical follow-up to some of what Sky Ferreira was doing before she switched up her sound, especially songs like Black Heart, LA Hallucinations, Boy Problems, see: 108, Touch & Go, 99 Tears.

for me, the thing about 1989 is that it came after four previous records that were stylistically different. obviously she's always been a pop crossover artist and has been hinting at something like 1989 ever since but the main thing i disliked about that album was the songwriting, which i found to be poor (this isn't a comment about how the songwriting on emotion and 1989 are dis/similar btw). taylor swift was always a significant western pop star to me because she knew how to utilize vocal melody/rhythm both as a major propulsive force but also to support her evocative lyrics. i'm ok with a few songs per album not being like that but a full album in that sort of mode sort of strips the appeal of her art for me to a good degree. and while it's always been the same taylor swift across all her albums (e.g. Picture to Burn --> Better Than Revenge --> Bad Blood), and the visceral nature of some songs on 1989 is magnetic, so many songs stumble in their pacing because that crucial element isn't there. I could pretty much do without anything after I Wish You Would. And this is kind of not relevant but the Hey's! on CRJ's Run Away With Me are annoying because they remind me of Bad Blood lol

This album pretty much accomplishes what 1989 couldn't do for me. Like, the fact the lyrics are straightforward on 1989 doesn't make it more hollow for me, it's the fact the songwriting didn't always make certain lyrics/moods come through fully.

the sky ferreira comparison is otm not just bc "when i needed you" sounds like a sunnier rewrite of "you're not the one"

is Love Again's vocal melody reminding me of Bizarre Love Triangle or is there something else more obvious I'm missing

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?

― Kitchen Person, Wednesday, June 24, 2015 1:33 AM (19 hours ago)

welp. could've sworn that post didn't have that second sentence when I initially saw it

Love Again seems very familiar but i don't think it's Bizarre Love Triangle that it reminds me of

I definitely hear a little bit of BLT in it, but there's probably a closer pop ancestor that I'm missing.

Oh man the second part of the chorus of "Boy Problems" is unbelievable.

that second part is pure sensory overload - so many contrasting lines.

Holy fucking shit at "Let's Get Lost".

^^ OTM.
i've been listening in repeat.

"favourite colour" sneaks up on you doesn't it