Carly Rae Jepsen • Kiss

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

Imogen Heap is just piling on those duets, eh?

"let's get lost" is so special, that 4-part harmony singing "youuuu" is totally what looking at your crush feels like

The resemblance of the "Love Again" melody to some 90s pop/dance track is killing me. I can't figure out what it is.

this album is a fresh blast of summer

It reminds me a tinsy bit of part of Lady Gaga's "Paparazzi".

(that was an xp)

the intro to "let's get lost" is a total eurodans/candy rip-off, but I'm not complaining

i think i broke up with my boyfriend today and i

don't really caaaaare

― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Tuesday, June 23, 2015 6:46 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah, this earwormed its way into my head all day long. Great hook, but I hope I get a reprieve from it tomorrow.

Buzzfeed buzzards and TMZ crows -- will we be able to decipher this lyric in 2 years time?

2? Yes. 12? Who knows.

poisoned utopia, choked xoxo's in a xanax xanadu, buzzfeed buzzards above circling faltering prey

― r|t|c, Friday, 2 August 2013 16:04 Bookmark

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I don't try to understand the TMZ crows effect on man.

Although how much trouble has she had with the paps anyway? She doesn't seem all that scandalous afaik.

they're h a l l u c i n a t i o n s

This is really good! Maybe my daughter will let us take a break from 1989 and will like this.

I think the only songs I don't 100% feel are black heart, fav colour & never get to hold you

jacob how old is she? my first thought when i heard this was, i wonder if this would be something my niece would like, but i don't know what kind of level of age appropriateness i should be aiming at for G/PG (?) songs w/ ~~romantic~~ themes

xp Wow, Favourite Colour really? I think that's my carved-in-stone favorite (at least so far).

AOTY hands down right?

AOTY candidate right?

It's just behind Susanne Sundfør for me at this point.

i've been crawling through youtubes of these songs and i assume i haven't heard the real pitch yet

yeah this is my album of the year until like further notice

idk maybe something'll destroy me in november/december as usual

jacob how old is she? my first thought when i heard this was, i wonder if this would be something my niece would like, but i don't know what kind of level of age appropriateness i should be aiming at for G/PG (?) songs w/ ~~romantic~~ themes

― j., Friday, June 26, 2015 3:41 PM (5 hours ago)

"Feel This Moment" came on in the gym just now and tbh it sounds a lot like another "Love Again" antecedent

hold up, this isn't out till august? i haven't downloaded a leak in a long time, but i don't know if i can wait till then. "emotion" and "i really like you" are both great.

If you live in Japan, you can already walk into a store and buy it as of this past Wednesday, but the rest of us have to wait two months. Of course, duh, it leaked the moment it was available.

Has there been any word on why they chose this roll-out schedule? Seems like an accounting error or something. I can't imagine they'll actually hold off on releasing it until the end of summer.

Not out over here (UK) until even later: September 25th

In a world with the internet, I have absolutely no idea what sort of reasons the label came up with for this release strategy.

it's the way we are together!
wanna feel like this forever!
it's the way we are together!
and i never thought i'd ever
say forever!

"gimmie love" is the fucking best thing

I would surmise that their reasoning is that they are going to try and turn "Run Away With Me" into a hit in the interim which might increase album sales. But that was the strategy Charll XCX's label adopted for her most recent album and it didn't work at all.

"run away with me" is so tremendous that i want to say its hit potential is much greater than e.g. "break the rules" (or even "i really like you" tbh), but really i have no idea. it seems like quite an uphill battle with pop radio these days when you're following up a prior single that stalled in the middle portion of the chart.

why is "run away with me" not the glorious triumphant closing track on this album

(i don't think it's as flaw-free as some of y'all but the highs are tremendous - and it sounds so good on headphones, those beats just SLAP - but my initial "this album totally fizzles out damply" opinion was rescinded when i noticed that most of the blah ones at the end were bonus tracks)

(the "let's get lost"/"la hallucinations" b2b is the peak imo, apart from "run away with me" obv)

(I KNOW YOU'VE HAD A ROUGH TIME BUT HERE I COME TO HIJACK YOU HIJACK YOU)

("i really like you" is easily the worst of the album's opening stretch)