big gym sw0les (crüt) at 10:48 27 May 19how can you save pop music if you don't have a hit?unpopular pop music is a cornerstone of ilm
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 28 May 2019 01:38 (four years ago) link
Or, as Xgau used to call it, "Semi-Popular Music".
― a large tuna called “Justice” (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 28 May 2019 02:32 (four years ago) link
QuasILX-pop
― Chewshabadoo, Tuesday, 28 May 2019 14:56 (four years ago) link
you do realize people actually go to carly rae jepsen shows
― like, I’m eating an elephant head (katherine), Tuesday, 28 May 2019 15:25 (four years ago) link
I wish they did one big another over here so I could go!
― Chewshabadoo, Tuesday, 28 May 2019 15:32 (four years ago) link
crj at islington assembly hall was a bit like being on e
― Lil' Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 28 May 2019 17:37 (four years ago) link
I did make that one, contender for my gig of the decade!
― Chewshabadoo, Wednesday, 29 May 2019 08:59 (four years ago) link
Everything He Needs is my song of the summer. Not sure if it's intentional but it feels like a sunshiny flipside to Wham!'s Everything She Wants. I agree with whoever it was who said Dedicated doesn't quite hit the highs of Emotion but is much more solid overall. What a great album.
― Fetchboy, Friday, 31 May 2019 21:03 (four years ago) link
ooooooooooooooooo. oooh
NEVER GUESS WHAT CAME AFTER
― american bradass (BradNelson), Thursday, 20 June 2019 00:25 (four years ago) link
Thank you for the reminder that I'm seeing her next week.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 20 June 2019 02:13 (four years ago) link
i seem to never get tired of this record
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 28 June 2019 19:03 (four years ago) link
just love the way she sings "but" before the chorus of "happy not knowing"
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 28 June 2019 19:04 (four years ago) link
Lost my shit at CRJ live in San Francisco tonight
― josh winters (josh), Saturday, 29 June 2019 07:36 (four years ago) link
Yeah that was a fucking amazing show all around. Setlist:
https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/carly-rae-jepsen/2019/bill-graham-civic-auditorium-san-francisco-ca-1b917940.html
Incredibly sequenced, she's leaning into the range of her catalog (okay fine, not the first album) perfectly at this point, and it can carry a full show easily. When you can place “Call Me Maybe” six songs in, close the main set with “Party For One” and close the encore and the whole night with a confetti cannon/ultraPride “Cut to the Feeling” you are firing on all fours. Speaking of that, Mark Kanemura really was the killer touch:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BzTFpQAJV0B/
Carly and @mKiK808 on stage tonight.📸 pic.twitter.com/G6xVi6fath— Carly Rae Jepsen News (@carlylatest) June 29, 2019
🏳️🌈 @carlyraejepsen sang GAY RIGHTS (feat. @mKiK808) pic.twitter.com/PlEi8ILKet— 𝕢𝕦𝕪𝕒𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐤 🏳️🌈 (@quyarick) June 29, 2019
Smart midset costume change break too.
Also, the shirts etc were a fun range. We both ended up going for the long sleeve black T-shirt with this on the front and the song title/her name on the back. Very metal.
So @squidita and I await @carlyraejepsen at the Bill Graham. No drug like her. Attn @randlechris etc pic.twitter.com/5asIGMLgIz— Ned Raggett (@NedRaggett) June 29, 2019
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 29 June 2019 16:57 (four years ago) link
it's crazy to me that she doesn't do "i know you have a girlfriend". it's her best song.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 29 June 2019 19:44 (four years ago) link
pretty sure she's only performing kiss bonus tracks in my dreams
― american bradass (BradNelson), Saturday, 29 June 2019 19:47 (four years ago) link
the number one Kiss album track i'd wanna hear her do is "More Than A Memory"
― ufo, Sunday, 30 June 2019 01:03 (four years ago) link
https://www.thestranger.com/features/2019/08/28/41215406/we-cant-stop-listening-to-carly-rae-jepsen
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 29 August 2019 05:52 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NY1RsDpRmIU
― american bradass (BradNelson), Thursday, 19 September 2019 17:11 (four years ago) link
It's as if her production team has taken the 80s touches of "Really Like You" and gone wild, because it sounds like the great lost Five Star single.
The UK Chart Company's website lists artists alphabetically, by first name, so I learn that the most popular first name beginning with a C for pop musicians in the UK is Chris. I also learn that Chris Morris' Blue Jam got to number 97 for a week back in April 2000. For that one week, our kind triumphed.
Dedicated also spent one week on the chart, entering and leaving at number 26 (it was a lot less popular than Lemar's Dedicated back in 2003). I realise that the UK pop charts are no longer the single definitive measure of an artist's worth, but even so it feels incredibly unfair for the album to spend just one week on the chart. I spent most of the second half of last month trying not to sing "oooooh, have I said too much / I'm so in my head / when we're out of touch", and it's not often that modern pop music penetrates my brain like that ("I Really Life You" was a top ten hit over here).
I mean, usually when an pop singer in her environment has a chart dip they get dumped. I still remember when B*Witched were dropped by their label because one of their singles only got to #12 or something albeit that it was a different world back then. And yet the record company are still backing Jepsen so presumably either she's really nice, or she has a fantastic manager, or someone in a position of power recognises that she puts out consistently good records. Also she seems to be able to sing live.
Here's an 8-Bit cover of "I Really Like You":https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qZ3RBW6OVE
It's fascinating from a song construction point of view. The verse is a lot stronger than "Call me Maybe" (the verse in that song is perfunctory - it only exists to space out the chorus), but the switch from "I feel like I could die" to "late night watching television" feels disjointed, and the chorus treads a fine line between being awesome and being a novelty, and yet it works and many years later I still remember it.
― Ashley Pomeroy, Thursday, 19 September 2019 20:13 (four years ago) link
the sophistipop clash of synths and saxophone at the end of "want you in my room" is so fuckin good
― american bradass (BradNelson), Thursday, 19 September 2019 20:27 (four years ago) link
the video is SO GOOD i have watched it several times
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 20 September 2019 00:56 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6o0EN7CoLao
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 18 October 2019 15:42 (four years ago) link
her cover of don't speak was not very good unfortunately
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 18 October 2019 16:11 (four years ago) link
was listenin' to this record for the first time in awhile this week. i still LOVE it. thx for awesome vid Brad
― one charm and one antiup quark (outdoor_miner), Saturday, 19 October 2019 14:49 (four years ago) link
this video made my day.thank you.
― Nourry, Saturday, 19 October 2019 17:00 (four years ago) link
can't imagine this will be anything less than a ton of funhttps://www.npr.org/2019/11/25/781452256/carly-rae-jepsen-tiny-desk-concert?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=music&fbclid=IwAR3W7OEMn9dsvbkq6fij2MppA0r2tIzU86InoR6s_f9hV-tfHxRKNSMTeIk
― one charm and one antiup quark (outdoor_miner), Monday, 25 November 2019 20:40 (four years ago) link
She seems to be teasing something on Twitter
Catch you later! 💘 pic.twitter.com/wfvQcYZNzY— Carly Rae Jepsen (@carlyraejepsen) February 4, 2020
― groovypanda, Tuesday, 4 February 2020 20:40 (four years ago) link
(it's a new song on friday)
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 4 February 2020 20:41 (four years ago) link
Her show here next week has been moved from a 2,000 capacity theater (that e.g. Paramore sold out in 2018 and where Taylor Swift played her one-off last year) to a 700 capacity venue :(
― juntos pedemos (Euler), Tuesday, 4 February 2020 21:15 (four years ago) link
only the real hedz
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 4 February 2020 21:27 (four years ago) link
yeah kind of a bummer for her but good news for everyone attending
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 4 February 2020 21:28 (four years ago) link
tbh I didn’t even know she was playing here until I saw the story about the move. It’s a Monday night, that can’t help. This album grew on me a lot but it took a bunch more plays than Emotion.
― juntos pedemos (Euler), Tuesday, 4 February 2020 21:52 (four years ago) link
I'm going to see her live on Friday! That venue was upgraded from a bigger one too.
― boxedjoy, Tuesday, 4 February 2020 22:03 (four years ago) link
The show on Sat in London I'm going to was upgraded from under 2,000 capacity Roundhouse to 5,000 capacity Brixton Academy. I feel like nothing will live up to seeing her in the 800 size Islington Town Hall on the Emotion tour though, one of my fondest gig memories, certaining from the last 10 years.
― Chewshabadoo, Wednesday, 5 February 2020 08:16 (four years ago) link
the Assembly Hall you mean? (which is next to the Town Hall) I was there and it was like one long ecstasy rush - absolutely incredible.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 5 February 2020 10:55 (four years ago) link
That’s the one, what a night.
― Chewshabadoo, Wednesday, 5 February 2020 16:55 (four years ago) link
https://open.spotify.com/track/6tcjcJFRSdkIlThUUP39mJ
song seems great but the vocal production is horrible
― monotony, Thursday, 6 February 2020 23:02 (four years ago) link
every sound in this sounds weird not just the vocals
― ufo, Thursday, 6 February 2020 23:18 (four years ago) link
How are you listening? Spotify tells me it’s not out until tomorrow. Am I supposed to understand you all have some kind of cool guy magic that permits you to hear songs from the future?
― rb (soda), Thursday, 6 February 2020 23:27 (four years ago) link
the cool guy magic of timezones
― monotony, Thursday, 6 February 2020 23:35 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_OYT396cYw
lol yeah the vocal production is v bizarre, sounds like a low quality kylie minogue demo. song's pretty cute
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 7 February 2020 13:33 (four years ago) link
I'm glad this didn't make the album (assuming it's an outtake) - I'm not a big fan of CRJ in mocking mode
― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Friday, 7 February 2020 14:11 (four years ago) link
I'm not much a fan of the "dicks" skit in the middle.
― ☮️ (peace, man), Friday, 7 February 2020 14:13 (four years ago) link
poptimism found murdered
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Friday, 7 February 2020 16:40 (four years ago) link
Turns out live she is the fucking best
― boxedjoy, Friday, 7 February 2020 23:51 (four years ago) link
the show I went to in December was absolutely fabulous
― monotony, Saturday, 8 February 2020 00:12 (four years ago) link
what the actual fuck has happened to carly's vocal production post-emotion
― like, I’m eating an elephant head (katherine), Saturday, 8 February 2020 00:13 (four years ago) link
Her vocal prod sounds like my voice after screaming about her West Coast tour announcement this morning!
Alsooo guess what west coast...I’m playing three special shows in addition to Coachella this spring! Oakland, Seattle, Portland – I can hardly wait! 💕Presale starts Tuesday at 10 AM with code FRIENDS, in honor of my new song 🤩https://t.co/00Rj4ihjRc pic.twitter.com/nOBoo54sbc— Carly Rae Jepsen (@carlyraejepsen) February 7, 2020
― winters (josh), Saturday, 8 February 2020 00:31 (four years ago) link
Rumours going around that Dedicated Side B is coming in two weeks. Twelve new songs not including Let's Be Friends.
― kitchen person, Thursday, 7 May 2020 15:08 (three years ago) link