Carly Rae Jepsen • Kiss

an 8-panel J-card that smells like Fritos

Enigma Records!

Yep! When the kids are all "what were the 80s like?", it's simple to point to a video (Pretty Poison's "Catch Me I'm Falling" is textbook) for sound and visuals, but to round out the olfactory pleasure, just have them take a whiff of your Beelzebubba tape.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlFMVzo9zuE

Love that song but the video confuses me

perfection :)

dropping by to note that the (best) k-pop group f(x) bought "when i'm alone," the emotion outtake carly wrote about masturbation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiaxkNnT2Vc

Pretty good, giving their whole album a listen now.

4walls is excellent, very new jack swing with "show me love" interpolations

sad to report that the vinyl version is just the original 12 tracks, no "black heart", "i didnt just come here to dance" or "favorite color"

I quite like it finishing on 'When I Needed You' I must say.

show tonight was gr8, 21 songs in less than 90 minutes

the one-two punch of 'tonight i'm getting over you' and 'your type' was immensely cruel

I hope she makes it over to Europe.

so glad I checked this album out. brilliant from start to finish.

seeing her tonight :D

oh my gosh, that was a great show. CRJ should have been a rock singer instead of a pop diva!

it was totally wonderful. irving plaza's sound is always weird to me, but it started sounding properly expansive by the fifth song or so ("warm blood," which is incidentally when i started crying)

i just wanted to say i really like the sweater she's wearing on the album cover.

A friend looked into getting one. Yours for a mere $2.5k: http://socialmediastyle.tumblr.com/post/110580979775/carly-rae-jepsens-rainbow-stripe-sweater

My wife will knit it for half that amount.

I just started listening yesterday and I have to say this is probably one of the top 5 albums I've heard this year. This type of music is obviously market-tested to death before being released and yet I'm marveled at how they managed to make it sound so effortless. Carly must have recorded every vocal track hundreds of times and that usual weariness of the pop album process doesn't filter in here. She sounds genuinely thrilled and... human in every song. I don't know if I'm overthinking it but I love how gleeful this all sounds. I'm probably being hyperbolic but this sounds to me like the closest any pop album has ever been to perfection.

Has this album performed well? None of the songs have been as ubiquitous as Call Me Maybe was and it's a shame because they're really, really good.

Thanks for the recommendations.

I Really Like You was a decent hit in Europe and Japan, but nowhere else. The album didn't do well at all, which is a shame because it's definitely my favourite thing this year.

it gets five stars from this corny indie fuxxor too. instant classic which I just haven't been able to stop playing this week

I see she is playing a one-off show in London in December. Is being put on by Capital, so a bit wary of the format.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CUJQqkuWIAELyAK.jpg

oooh, exciting!

Guess what idiot forgot to get tickets to the London show.

Goddamn it, I hate that song.

was there ever a christmas song poll on ilm?

The Christmas Poll

ouch, how can this not sound corny?

ouchooh, how can this not sound cornygreat?

decent poll! it's down to wham vs. mariah for me too (of the tracks that appear on those cd collections)

All I Want For Christmas is a true jam, although I think I must have been the vote for 2000 Miles.

also great, and a bit atypical in that it's an album cut christmas song (or whatever they call that)

I don't think I'll listen to any christmas songs before December, but first thing I'm giving a listen is this

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/10/12/03/2D50A1DE00000578-3268860-image-a-8_1444615989470.jpg

the crj "last christmas" cover is great, totally crystalline, tons of saxophone, kinda r&b in the way it moves

Crystalline saxophone sounds reassuring.

http://www.itemvn.com/song/?s=DA977279F2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Wk6pKKi0vE

Hahaha well it does sound corny but it's actually not that awful considering the source. Funk bass and sax make it stand out.

Still XMAS albums will never be a wise career move.

I still think the Wham version is the definite pop cover of the song, though.

Actually I was thinking about XMAS albums that aren't that bad and I remembered the LOW christmas one. It's probably my favorite one of the bunch I've heard. They seem as excited for xmas as I am every year.

the wham version is the original. no evidence that she's releasing a christmas album

Still XMAS albums will never be a wise career move.

Can be incredibly lucrative though. Think Mariah's 'All I Want For Christmas' has earned well over $50m in royalties and Slade's Holder & Lea share over £500k each and every year.

the wham version is the original. no evidence that she's releasing a christmas album

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you're right! I thought it was a cover but I think that about every xmas song I ever hear. Most are so overplayed they feel like centuries old to me.

I thought the CRJ was a full album. If it's a one or two song thing then it's awesome and the way everyone should do it. No need for full albums of half-assed xmas covers.

No need for full albums of half-assed xmas covers.

Well, other than padding an artist's bank account.

If by the next 10 years there is no sexy christmas EP by Miguel my life will be a huge disappointment.

ilx needs a proper christmas song poll imo

we did! THE OFFICIAL WINTER WONDERLAND CHRISTMAS FUN TIME POLL BOTS & GIRLS AND EVEN PEOPLE WHO DON'T CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS

Hmm, I don't remember that happening, but it's probably for the best because anything beating Darlene Love (even if it's "Christmas Wrapping" and it's only by 1 point) would have put me in a Grinchly way.