Carly Rae Jepsen • Kiss

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)

(this album feels like 1989's twin in some ways but also its opposite; the way TS and CRJ stamp their personalities (or not) on their songs is SO different)

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

uh, because "When I Needed You" is even more gloriously triumphant?

When I Needed You is a great closer but i kinda wish it had a sax solo or something at the end instead of just a fade out like that

fffffff i can't even believe how good this is.

the rostam batmanglig/ tegan & sara / CRJ power trio on "boy problems" is incredible.

OK so there is this slow down deep pitch shift on the vocals trick that they are using - i was thinking, who is it that popularized this in 2014/2015 pop? was it MNEK? Jimmy Napes? I feel like its used a shitload on Disclosure and other records but i can't pinpoint. they use the same effect (to a lesser extent) on Gimmie Love.

sorry i meant "warm blood" not "boy problems" for the vocal pitch shift thing

faaaaa the topline / vocal delivery on "I would throw in the towel for you, boy" is pure, fucking genius

yup

with a good video, Boy Problems definitely has the potential to become a summer hit. for shame, label bozo's.

i just do not comprehend/understand how she is getting screwed by label promo issues - ostensibly she's pretty in control of this shit considering she was a songwriter for a long time with multiple outfits before doing her own stuff. this is being released on Scooter Braun's imprint, no? How does he not have the ability to push Interscope/UMG into better promo? or am i just concerned b/c this is a timing thing when it feels so summery, it should've been out in april/may with a massive headlining summer tour behind it... maybe it just wasn't ready in time?

on another note did anyone else read somewhere that she recorded over 200 tracks in the past few years for this record??

i don't know about recorded but she said she wrote 200-250 songs for it here. one of the outtakes, 'bullseye' leaked recently but it's nothing special.
it doesn't sound like it was ready in time, when 'all that' came out in april she was still talking about deciding on the final tracklisting i think. the label seems to really want to focus on japan, she's doing a lot of promo appearances there which she wouldn't have had as much time for without the weird staggered release, & kiss got a remix album that was only released there?

i just do not comprehend/understand how she is getting screwed by label promo issues - ostensibly she's pretty in control of this shit considering she was a songwriter for a long time with multiple outfits before doing her own stuff. this is being released on Scooter Braun's imprint, no? How does he not have the ability to push Interscope/UMG into better promo? or am i just concerned b/c this is a timing thing when it feels so summery, it should've been out in april/may with a massive headlining summer tour behind it... maybe it just wasn't ready in time?

on another note did anyone else read somewhere that she recorded over 200 tracks in the past few years for this record??

― mingalaba, Tuesday, June 30, 2015 11:14 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it's almost as if carly rae jepsen is more beloved of critics and the internet than the music industry

gimmelovegimmelovegimmelovegimmelovegimmelove

(this album is great, best pure pop of the year by far)

CRJ posted a 3 min "writing of" video on het Facebook page on July 1st, if you're still vibing on this album

I don't adore all of it yet but the Cupid & Psyche 85 moments are monumental.

the ballads are the weakest moments

a couple bits of failed ebullience too

there are non-"all that" ballads?

(p much aggressively ignoring the non-"black heart" bonus tracks)