Carly Rae Jepsen • Kiss

also, for those of you who do find that production in your face *and those who don't* apparently no one outside canada got the Curiosity EP that originally contained Call Me Maybe?

It was supposed to be her 2nd LP and then got reduced to an EP. Call Me Maybe aside it's charming midtempo electropop, including the original mix of Curiosity and a cover of Both Sides Now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krDk7clnihs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMlUaxBp33U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASZXZDIyPz8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPWWSmXhc50

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

I remember seeing that EP in stores, but I think they pulled it back out once "Call Me Maybe" started to blow up. That or it sold out really, really quickly, since I could never find it again once I was interested.

Anyway, if you like her and/or her song but don't like the super-aggressive thump, this might be more to your taste.

Her first album is super folky in a Mraz sort of way, with the exception of the title track, 'Tug of War', which is sort of folk-trance and is pretty lovely:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IoedEgydRo

Tug of War is pretty nice.

Where did she place in Canadian Idol? Did she win?

iirc, they let everyone on Canadian Idol finish first, because, well, it would just be rude to let so many people down, you know?

you forgot "eh"

too obvious

The "eh" is regional anyway, right? "Soooory" is nationwide, though.

In 2007, she placed third in the fifth season of Canadian Idol, and was a part of the Canadian Idol Top 3 concert tour.

Canada only has a top 3 tour? Nice. I think American Idol tour sales are in the garbage can because no one wants to sit through 10 singers, half of whom they hate.

was all prepared to hate this, but find myself unable to do anything but smile and bop my head

She lost to this guy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIySPt2D0zI

And this guy, who was the winner:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeoTQ9Z2i_g

the overall sound is a lot gentler than what i think of as the "shriller modern all-american katy perry lmfao max martin rictus" style. it's clear and bright, pops where it should, but i don't feel at all battered by the production. it's more inviting than insistent.

agree that the sequencing of "call me maybe" feels jarring, though i'm not sure why.

i think "call me maybe" sits kind of perfectly in its spot! provides a context for the rest of the record. also, impossibly, hearing it in album context totally reenlivened it for me

also i think a lot of the appeal of the sound of this record is the push and pull between the guetta/dr. luke/max martin/lmfao elements and, you know, the pure disco, which i think are the clear and bright elements that contenderizer highlights. even max martin's big dubstep number is grounded by carly's voice and lyrics, the whole "drop" mirroring the release of the lyric "tonight i'm getting over you," like being released from a line, the sudden preponderance of weight, etc.

how the fuck is "drive" a bonus track?

haha. so say we all.

also, 'i know you have a girlfriend'. also, 'sweetie'.

otm. three of the best songs on the album. would happily cut the owl city and beiber tracks for those, though i don't really hate either. on the first pass, i'm not a big fan of "tonight i'm getting over you" or "GS/WR" either, but i need a few more listens.

"GS/WR"

favorite song

a surprise b/c that's a real awful title

it verges on the willfully abrasive pop sound discussed upthread, but that's not necessarily a bad thing

"tonight i'm getting over you" and "turn me up" are the only ones i thought nodded explicitly at current guettapop rather than the golden age of teenpop thing

the whistling melody throughout "i know you have a girlfriend" <3

"hurt so good" is def my fav non-CMM song

pains me to admit it, but i think i love this album

tonight i'm getting over you grew on me really quickly.

it took a day and then when it clicked, it CLICKED.

the half-spoken bits on 'i know you have a girlfriend' are great.

especially 'cuts me like a knife / gonna be your wife'

okay, i take it back, i flat fucking hate the owl city parts of "good time", dude fucking ruins a potentially decent song

yeah owl city is a...low point

the bieber duet isn't even that awful just a bit boring

i have no complaints about the sequencing or the presence of CMM fwiw - it's been one of those mad busy weeks where i've had too much to listen to and also do so i haven't had any time left over to thinking about how it could be better in that respect

second time through the sequencing of CMM didn't bother me at all. bit jarring on the first pass, a visitor from another world, but now that i'm prepared, it sounds perfect.

i also think the beginning "curiosity" sounds great how it issues softly out of the end of "call me maybe"

where can I listen to songs from this album? they removed fuck all from youtube

spotify

The reason one of the best songs is an "bonus" is because it's standard practice for the company to leak/stream the album minus the bonus songs. So then if you want to legally hear them you have to buy the CD.

Best I can tell, it's not up on Spotify yet because it hasn't been officially released, but here's where it will be: http://open.spotify.com/album/134tOfYZccuTVvBEQOAUto

no spotify in my coiuntry :(

There appear to be several different versions on Spotify and only one of them has 'I Know You Have A Girlfriend' on it, which is mentalism.

soulja boy nod on "turn me up" <3 <3

fake-out just before the second chorus of "curiosity" <3 <3

can't stop listening

as your last.fm would testify

Best I can tell, it's not up on Spotify yet because it hasn't been officially released, but here's where it will be: http://open.spotify.com/album/134tOfYZccuTVvBEQOAUto

― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 16 September 2012 08:21 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

No? It seems to work here...

You're in the uk, right? Monday release vs. Tuesday release in the us.

Finally heard and reviewed "This Kiss." Quite good.

the first track on this album is so sickly sweet and cutesy it is making me seriously angry

maybe I shouldn't have listened to Purity Ring and Sleigh Bells on repeat all this morning before trying to play this

yeah I'm gonna try this later when I'm not all aggro, right now this is just the worst fucking thing and I can tell it's 90% because of my mood and not the music

if i'd had to listen to purity ring and sleigh bells all morning i'd be so overjoyed to hear carly rae jepsen

actually i ended up having a deadline on the same day for my bob dylan piece and carly rae jepsen review, the evening before i took to alternating one song off each album just to make the impending deadlines more fun, and my god going back to dylan every time was physically painful

If. You. Cut. A Piece. Of. Guitar. String.
I. Will. Wear. It. Like. It's. My. Wedding. Ring.

^^^ I've heard this shitty laboured chorus like twice and I already feel I've heard it thousands of times. That one's the real clunker here.

the first two songs basically sound like aural saccharin to me right now

You might as well stop, it's all basically the same.

yeah I went on to something else, I'll try again later

call her maybe!

that feels like cheating since it's actually *named* for the release date, but sure, fair point.

i made that joke in the other thread

it is possible to change a cover before release date it’s called metadata

though if i get a record with a date on the cover i guess i’ll eat my words here

Usher was in '87? Holy crap I'm old!

call me maybe just came on the radio and it’s still absolutely perfect

hard to overstate the giddy euphoria this song generated in 2012 - and that energy still flows on like some law of thermodynamics

a tune I remember exactly where I was the first time I heard it and knew immediately it would be a smash