Carly Rae Jepsen • Dedicated

As for Side B, "Comeback" is my big keeper from the album

"julien" is such an incredible song

julien,
it was more than a fantasy
to the end

will a more perfect lyric ever be written?

through the
last
breath
that
i
breathe

omg the sheer euphoria of the chorus coming in after the bridge, I can't tell if it's just me but the harmony that goes up instead of down sounds like it's mixed just a biiiit louder and it gives it so much lift

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCrxhRe2d2w

she's the greatest

How dare you (post this right before I was going to).

I will probably never listen again but this is adorable

I love them too! I just hope she isn't hurting herself as much as it sounds like. Also, I didn't realize that the backing vocals were so generic. I don't keep up with much dude pop these days.

But on a similar note, I have had a disquieting thought about Want You In My Room. I've been operating under the assumption that Carly herself provided the vocodered vox on the chorus. But what if it was Jack Antonoff and the song was more of a duet? Under so much processing - would it matter? It kind of gives me chills (the bad kind). Is there any evidence to support or debunk this?

― ☮ (peace, man), Wednesday, May 22, 2019 12:41 PM (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink

i don't have liner notes in front of me but i've been assuming the robotic voice in the chorus is him. i... don't think this makes the song a duet any more than his "whoaaoh"s on "out of the woods" would

― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, May 22, 2019 12:45 PM (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink

I guess I just don't want Jack Antonoff wanting me in his room.

― ☮ (peace, man), Wednesday, May 22, 2019 12:48 PM (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink

I just got around to listening to the CRJ interview on the Switched On Pop podcast from last May. Not a favorite podcast of mine, to be honest, but I went back to it since it's an interview. Anyway, relevant passage: "Jack's so gifted at the vocoder." I am at peace with this fact though. It doesn't bother me like it did back then.

what a great friday album

Gonna be time for a new thread soon. Just not sure if Western Wind is a song or album title.

https://www.stereogum.com/2182604/carly-rae-jepsen-western-wind/news/

Just a reminder to whoever gets to it first - preserve • the • middot

lol thx for preserving the middot

― Johnny Fever, Monday, April 1, 2019 10:25 AM (three years ago) bookmarkflaglink

It was a priority.

― ☮ (peace, man), Monday, April 1, 2019 10:27 AM (three years ago) bookmarkflaglink

Yes!

western wind let's do this!!!!

very promising

you know it’s spring🌸 pic.twitter.com/m9IPigPoAt

— Carly Rae Jepsen (@carlyraejepsen) April 11, 2022

Jesus that sounds good.

Single out next week

But could you give me peace of mind
if I return to you in time
my golden arrow pic.twitter.com/0TxalNRl1G

— Carly Rae Jepsen (@carlyraejepsen) April 28, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZiEvY6d8Y4

here it is at last, going for 90s downtempo vibes

not bad but feels like a weird single choice?

very pleasant

I like it. It was pretty underwhelming when she played it in the middle of her Coachella set the other week, so I'm glad that the recorded version sounds better to me. I hope we get word about an album soon, rather than having to wait in interminable silence or through several more sporadically released singles.

i really like this. some cool credits, too: rostam, angel deradoorian, shawn everett

Woah, I had never heard of any of them, but looked them up and yeah, that is an interesting group of collaborators!

new crj just dropped

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tH4p_MX4YG8

ok jokes aside (that decker song gets stuck in my head every time i hear it anyway)

wow!

what a song!

production is something else, spacious, breezy

this is very "I Love You Always Forever" and therefore very good

great song

this is very "I Love You Always Forever" and therefore very good

― boxedjoy

First song that came to mind as well

This feels like what Lorde was trying to sound like in her last album but actually nailing it.

Another new album released today that I'm excited about, needs it's own thread and almost missed this news

Album not out yet just a single

But if its any indication it’s going to be really good.

Haha was looking through new releases and they must've mixed singles and albums together

Beautiful song

Whew I'm relieved. From the title and some of the photography leading up to this, I thought she was going to go down a Folklore/Evermore path and I wasn't into that idea AT ALL.

Quite nice! The Decker song, I mean. crj song is pretty nice too

Great Lush Song, very "Warm Blood" that was also produced by Rostajm, love it honestly.

Which also not hard to imagine fitting in a Vampire Weekend album, most likely Modern Vampires of the City.

As far as album teasers go,
Western Wind >>>>> Party For One

I hope Rostam is involved with more songs on this album. Warm Blood is peak CRJ.

Perhaps it’s partly the song title but I am getting strong early Saint Etienne vibes from this.

"western wind" is so good

https://www.instagram.com/p/Cgw2bmzuB0P/

new album the loneliest time out october 21

time for a new thraed

I have tix to see her on Oct. 4, I guess I'll be hearing some new stuff.

the new thread preserves the middot, but our pop savior's name is now Carly Rae Jensen. Sorry folks, it's official.

Carly Rae Jensen • The Loneliest Time

We wanted to be Jetsons, but instead we're all Jensens.

I suppose you could say that people who go to see her live will intercept 'er. Hahaha.

Get it? Interceptor? Jensen Interceptor? The car? There was a four-wheel drive version as well. I mean technically it was called the Jensen FF, but humour me.

No, I'm just David Kid Jensen-ing. Kid-ding. Kidding. They've changed the thread title now so it does't work.

still really prefer this record to emotion, def a minority position but even the songs i once thought sounded like reheated ideas ("now that i found you") are sick jams

"happy not knowing"... pure bliss

agree with you 100% brad and if you say this to any jepsen fan they’ll look at you like you have three heads

Probably not as crazy my assertion that Tug of War is one of her best songs.

still think this falls off in the last third, there was definitely material on side b that deserved to be on here instead

but you do have to love her generosity, having released double albums worth of material from the sessions for each of her last 3 albums, makes for fun sequence it yourself exercises