Carly Rae Jepsen • Kiss

I don't understand how that Pitchfork review can ignore the title track and "Boy Trouble" which are the two greatest things on the album and of the year.

sorry, "Boy Problems"

I have met nobody outside of ILX who has even mentioned this album

― welltris (crüt), Monday, August 17, 2015 10:42 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah. I haven't seen any over-the-top "YOU HAVE TO LIKE THIS ALBUM OR ELSE" thinking about Emotion, but if it's happening, I feel like the solution to avoiding that is a pretty easy one since it's happening around an artist who can't crack the top 1000 of an airplay chart or the top 100 of an itunes chart. Half the reason I think my enjoyment of this album hasn't faded is because I haven't been exposed to exhaustive reviews and pieces about "how we should all love her album/how it's not all that and the fans are going overboard" that you get with huge pop acts that demand you pick a side.

But I mean it sucks if y'all have found the 4 or 5 CRJ fans who act like that.

not trolling, but i'm pretty certain that since call me maybe came off the charts i've never even heard CRJ's name brought up by anyone IRL, only online

the song did more for Cookie Monster's career if we're being honest

nobody in the real world talks about any music

sad but true

Yet everyone who did started an ILM thread

the guy behind the counter at my dad's gym said "i don't listen to music anymore," which i thought was a pretty sad admission. maybe there's some tragic story behind it. he used to teach ballroom and swing dancing. actually when i pressed him he said he occasionally puts on ZZ Top.

Listening to music vs music as background or vestigial organ

basically everyone i know talks about music but that's what i do

btw katherine this is great http://katherinestasaph.tumblr.com/post/126906365038/carly-rae-jepsens-emotion-in-facts-and-theories

Let's Get Lost my favorite song on this atm.

Also Corban Goble should spend less time on tumblr?

btw katherine this is great http://katherinestasaph.tumblr.com/post/126906365038/carly-rae-jepsens-emotion-in-facts-and-theories

― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Tuesday, August 18, 2015 12:59 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^^^^^^

agreed, great post Katherine.

cosine

thanks, I still need to revise it, I wrote it on very little sleep (because it's also too damn hot to sleep)

it does seem a little weird that the review's appraisal hinges upon this record not being as good or personable as, say, taylor swift (and even incorporating "blank space" to drive the point home in the last two lines) when p4k has otherwise avoided acknowledging swift's albums at all

and a part of me wants to find pleasure in corban saying this album is only one decimal point better than a k-pop record (2ne1's crush), but i have to disagree

i think taylor's place in the 2014 album poll, coupled with recent reviews for derulo and now carly rae, mean they've made a conscious decision to cover more pop

btw katherine this is great http://katherinestasaph.tumblr.com/post/126906365038/carly-rae-jepsens-emotion-in-facts-and-theories

Yeah -- "red wub cells" is my favorite critical phrase of the year so far.

damn, katherine, that was fantastic

yeah, the whole red wub cells sentence was terrific. totally stopped me in my tracks.

“Your Type” is pretty transparently an attempt to fuse the Taylor Swift of “Style” to the Taylor Swift of “You Belong With Me.”

It's also "The One That Got Away."

Thanks for opening my ears to "Fight Song," by the way.

it does seem a little weird that the review's appraisal hinges upon this record not being as good or personable as, say, taylor swift (and even incorporating "blank space" to drive the point home in the last two lines) when p4k has otherwise avoided acknowledging swift's albums at all

― soyrev, Tuesday, August 18, 2015 3:40 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yes. i don't understand the salt in the wounds thing when they won't even review a t. swift to begin with

Just saw she's playing Jimmy Fallon's show Wednesday night. Hopefully doing "Run Away With Me," but I guess we'll see.

@nxd is that really anything new? there were rihanna and lady gaga songs on their year-end list in 2010

yeh good point, was just a casual observation
seems like they've been doing this for a while with tracks, just seemed kinda out of place to me to stick an un-reviewed album on there

The album placing just reflects that writers including me voted for it.

ah ok - cheers for clearing that up!

hi here's my take okay bye

https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/music/2015/08/20/album-review-carly-rae-jepsen-tion-pop-gem/Kf4rnG7YlLxxdF2e2ZplwM/story.html

e-maura-tion

pretty much

it's out!

she sounded pretty good on fallon

♫ IT'S THE WAY WE ARE TOGETHER ♫

great review maura

i really (x6) like this.

scratching the same itch as when i listen to amy grant's "baby, baby" five times in a row.

classic case of boy meets girl?

i wanted to amend my "nobody talks about CRJ in real life" with a note that her name shows up regularly in the NYT crossword and is 51 across today

she'll be a household name to some degree forever. i haven't heard anyone mention PSY in a while but most people who were sentient in 2012 will remember both of them forever.

"psy" also a xword regular forever

the other day i saw a guy wearing a metal band style shirt (for a metal band) that said PSYOP & i started crackin up

there should be a question mark in that parenthetical

Re. "Baby Baby", this reminds me of a more upbeat " Ask Me"

https://twitter.com/chartnews/status/635163657731743744

US chart preview (sales only) - debut: @carlyraejepsen 12-15k.

oh man, that's not good.

wow