Carly Rae Jepsen • Kiss

that piece is not great but i'm sure the writer knows how commas and conjunctions work

Lol at two of the songwriters shouting themselves out on "I Didn't Just Come Here To Dance".

xposts: I think Kurstin is easy to spot but Sia has not written anything else like "Making The Most Of The Night" or "Boy Problems" lately, as far as I am aware.

The choruses on those songs don't have a lot of space I guess? is how I'd put it which is unusual for Sia since her choruses tend to be spacious for the sake of maximum belting.

One of things I've always liked about Carly is the way that almost all of her choruses feel very "chatty". Which feels to me like it swims against the tide of most current pop music and certainly against the Dance Producer ft. Sia etc. and Pitcbull etc. orthodoxy, where the choruses are declaratory, either from a balcony Evita-style or from a podium at the center of the dancefloor.

Carly's songs feel like they're addressed to the specific listener, whereas Sia tends to sound like she's addressing a large audience which includes the listener.

This trend is also present in the way she often seems to enjoy rhyming relatively long words or phrases by current chart-pop standards e.g. "sentimental" and "detrimental" on "This Kiss", or "television" with "this position" on "I Really Like You" (though that particular aspect doesn't apply in the specific case of the Sia co-writes here). This is not by itself admirable or exciting or anything, but it can lend the songs a nicely sculpted or chiseled quality (c.f. the stapled-together effect of e.g. "Chandelier" and a lot of other declaration-pop), like, even if the message or vibe being delivered is "generic" or somewhat surface-level, a lot of care has been taken in its articulation.

oh i keep meaning to mention that i love that "boy problems" isn't directly about boy problems at all, but conversing with one's best friend about boy problems

so that one's sort of literally chatty

I've reversed my position on "I Didn't Just Come Here to Dance," so I now like every single track on this album.

yeah i didn't like "i didn't just come here to dance" at all when i first heard it but it fucking RULES

I feel like it's the best example of full bore EDM-pop meets diva-house since Dawn Richard's "Faith".

But with more early 90s Robyn S / CeCe Peniston vibes

my bad on the Tegan & Sara credit on Warm Blood -- i got that info from Wiki which i guess is not a reliable source.

my fave Sia write in the past bit is "Expertease (Ready Set Go)" for Jennifer Lopez. its a bonus track, Prod. is RedOne and Oakwud, and you can very clearly here the Sia factor in lyrics/topline/delivery/cadence etc. etc.

oh yeah and if i'm being picky and trying to find anything to dislike about this record, its the fade outs on most tracks. wish there were conclusive ends to the tracks rather than the lame fade...

I was thinking that something about the heavy landslide thud of the production of "When I Needed You" reminded me of Ferreira's "Heavy Metal Heart" - so of course they share a producer.

Love the way she sings TO-GETH-ER! FOR-EV-ER!

i never listened to 'i really like you' that much pre-album but god damn

who gave you eyes like that/
said you could keep them

That's almost up there with the greatest eye-related pop lyric ever:

You talk, talk, talk to me
Your eyes touch me physically

Can not stop listening to this all the way through repeatedly

Out of the songs currently on Spotify "Emotion" is the best one IMO.

God damn "Favourite Colour"

i dare you to watch this and not fall in love

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeccAtqd5K8

partially filmed on the exact sidewalk in shibuya where this album started fully clicking for me :'D

ugh this is really good

also, dope running record

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBPw0l26L58

;_;

are you sad because it's a disco ball?

sure

is there any chance at all of "run away with me" becoming an actual hit? i want / need to have a euphoric dancing experience to this in public at some point

i think it could be, depends on how well it's promoted

on board with this album now fwiw

I thought he was sad because he made the mistake of looking at the Youtube comments where everybody is making comparisons to Bad Blood.

oh yeah lol

is Run Away With Me not even charting??? WTF

it debuted at #104 on the uk charts today

but now there's a video for "warm blood" as well!! so.. idk

is Run Away With Me not even charting??? WTF

― mingalaba, Friday, July 31, 2015 10:11 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the internet is vastly overstating the extent to which the general public shares their cult fandom

oh finally

Popularity is a weird thing. Operating on the premise that Carly Rae's closest musical kin is Taylor Swift, it makes no sense that she wouldn't be as famous for making slightly better songs and having a slightly better voice, but it does make sense for her not purposely living her life like (and writing songs as if) she's a walking supermarket tabloid (no shade on TayTay, it's her choice). For some reason I can't put a finger on, CRJ seems kind of like a "distant" figure in a way that TS (or Katy Perry or Rihanna or even the One Direction fellas) doesn't. That probably hurts her when it comes to cultivating a rabid fanbase.

it debuted at #104 on the uk charts today

but now there's a video for "warm blood" as well!! so.. idk

― transparent play for gifs (Tracer Hand), Saturday, August 1, 2015 9:27 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i don't see a video yet, only a YouTube audio...

i'm afraid i will cause a car accident if i hear "run away with me" on the radio from dancing and/or crying uncontrollably so maybe it's better if it's not a hit

she's releasing a new song from it weekly until the release date
not that it will make much of a difference unfortunately

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/02/arts/music/carly-rae-jepsen-with-a-new-album-is-definitely-changing-her-number.html
this article's interesting. wonder what she means by wanting to 'go even weirder' on the next album because nothing on this seems very 'weird'.

I like this album, A+ bubblegum. Wonder if my kids will get into it if it's not something every other living person under 13 is listening to.

"This time we wanted to stop worrying about singles and focus on having a critically acclaimed album." -- I feel like I have to preface all my posts with the fact that I like this album, but man, if ever there was a more damning quote from a manager

Weirdly, there might be some strategy behind that. Keep her contract active and keep her in the minds of people until the unwashed masses can catch up.

"This time we wanted to stop worrying about making something people would buy and focus on having an album people liked."

"album sales are really where it's at these days"

It makes total sense as a long-term strategy; in the general public's mind she's a classic one hit wonder at this point. She doesn't have and is uninterested in building a tabloid profile to keep herself in headlines without hit music; and Call Me Maybe is unduplicable. So a well crafted pure pop album for the heads will at least maintain niche loyalty until a potential comeback. Of course what's surprising is a major label taking a long term approach at all...

Nothing on this album sounds like a hit and it's only v superficially comparable to 1989

I think "I Really Like You" sounds even more like a hit than "Call Me Maybe" but maybe bubblegum sometimes works against you. "Emotion" sounds like a massive hit record to me, too.

was "I Really Like You" not a hit?

Looks to have been in some countries. Yet to hear it once on the radio in the U.S.