Carly Rae Jepsen • The Loneliest Time

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Holy shit

personally I think loneliness is really fucking boring but I hope she can change my mind

Bullion + Jepsen is a fantasy come true and I have the highest hopes for this

i'm very excited, personally i love loneliness and i can't think of anyone i'd rather hear sing about it.

I'm also excited to hear what she does with Bullion

Is that some kinda cryptocurrency thing?

here for CRJ's version of

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ow8cLdgJ5LE

personally I think loneliness is really fucking boring

If you're not lounging in chiffon with bejeweled fruit, you've been doing loneliness all wrong.

Is that some kinda cryptocurrency thing?

Close... Elon Musk's latest child

I already regret invoking his name on what should have been a celebratory thread

Mods plz dlt user

Oh God I just realized I misspelled her name in the thread title!!!

mod fix plz?

Karl Ray Jetson

Kenley Ray Jepsen

Curly Joe Jackson

Carly Ray Vaughan

well the new single "beach house" is quite the pivot from "western wind". just about stays on the right side of quirky i think. insanely sticky chorus - it's giving aqua

i wish she didn't give the quirkiest lines to some random men, i think she'd sell "i've got a lake house in canada and i'm probably gonna harvest your organs" a lot better!

hmm this is mediocre

Where are y'all located? It's not out in US Eastern yet :(

I thought "Western Wind" was hinting that the album was going in a more chill direction, but now this one... Aqua is a good comparison. Catchy but pretty lightweight

I'll be honest, my expectations were lowered once I saw the album art. Haven't heard Beach House yet, and I'm still unenthused by Western Wind, so I'm holding a wait-and-see position.

Yeah, I'm not sure about this one. Weird to hear her come out with such a weak chorus.

i'd take "good time" over "beach house" really

was expecting a lot worse based on the reaction to it

heh it's actually worse than I was expecting

the more i listen the more i hate it

Three times was my limit. Fortunately I doubt I'm in any danger of ever hearing this in the wild, so I may never hear it again.

Aqua is a good comparison

You have my attention.

Can’t see the Aqua comparison. Sounds like a decent but not great CRJ track.

there's a plastic, uber-catchy, 90s europop vibe to the chorus that reminded me of something like aqua

Oh it def reminds me of them, the europop vibe. Also male/female vocals with quirky lyrics

She comes out with bad songs sometimes. Party for One was a rough introduction to the Dedicated era for me. I was very relieved when it didn't actually end up on the record. I liked Cut to the Feeling at first but it really is just a chorus, isn't it? Let's Be Friends had that stupid dick joke/laugh in the middle. What were you thinking, Ms. Jensen?

Anyway, I don't think this is one of her bad ones! It definitely sounds musically out of character as far as her past few records. It's not like, sophisticated Carly. But I think it's a fun, funny song. If I have a criticism of it, it's that at 2:30 it gets in and out too quickly, much like the 2:41 Want You In My Room from Dedicated. I really think it could have used one more verse about boys number 5 and 8 or something. I really like the guy background singers on the chorus and bridge. So yeah, I'm on Team Beach House.

her worst song is that one christmas song she put out, just the pits

or let’s be friends, which i had completely forgotten about

Thought you meant her cover of "Last Christmas", Brad, until I looked it up. The lyrics of "It's Not Christmas Til Someone Cries" have put me off wanting to hear the song

I'm not even a scrooge about Christmas music, but yeah, It's Not Christmas Til Somebody Cries is a stinker.

all of these terrible songs are on streaming and yet utter jam “me and the boys in the band” still isn’t, it’s a cruel world

love the lyric of the new one but do not enjoy it musically, it made me think of jessie j and typing this sentence has made me depressed

cut to me in october saying “beach house sorta works in context” lol

lol

don't even hate the song as much as some of you but if the song works in context, then i'd be worried about the album

This sounds more like Black Eyed Peas than Aqua and it sucks.

Hope Western Wind is a better indication of what the album sounds like.

xp Well, the next track is about what gets done with those organs

Listening again and it’s worse than Black Eyed Peas. It sounds like a DNCE song.

This is giving me deja vu to the time Taylor Swift released ME! as the lead single for Lover
(Beach House is better than that, but I was hoping for more of a Warm Blood vibe for this album)

That was disappointing. It doesn't flow - the chorus grinds to a halt with "I'm probably going to hurt your feelings" and then the song seems to start again. It's just irritatingly stop-start. The middle eight doesn't work. It has surprisingly little Carly Rae Jepsen in it.

I enjoyed "I Want You In My Room" because it flowed well, it had some clever chords, and the production was retro without being overpowering. The chorus was like a one-two punch - it came in two parts, with the second part acting like a bonus chorus, a pleasant surprise. In contrast "Beach House" has a weak single-part chorus that just brings the song to a halt.

It has nothing to do with Aqua. It's not in the same league as Aqua. Aqua was genius. You, "Beach House", are no Aqua. If anything this song reminded me of how well-written "Happy Boys and Girls" was. To this day I still can't tell if the melancholic undercurrent running through that song was deliberate was real or exists only inside my head.

I still have faith in Carly Rae Jepsen but I fear she has been led astray. I'm not suggesting she should be kidnapped and forced to work with Mark Ronson. Kidnapped is such a loaded word. Enticed, with cheese.

brad otm about it sounding like jessie j lol

New article.

https://crackmagazine.net/article/profiles/carly-rae-jepsen-new-album-the-loneliest-time-western-wind-beach-house-cover-story/

Despite the more maudlin theme, The Loneliest Time is wide-ranging. While her 2015 hit album Emotion was embedded in 80s synth-pop and its polished follow-up Dedicated mainly took its influence from sultry 70s disco, lately Jepsen has been less conscious of the decades she’s been moving between. “I had the playground of all the eras to jump from, and this was more just writing from the heart, in whatever direction the songs wanted to go,” she explains of the new album. She was also more intentional about the lyrical content not just being about a boy or nursing a crush. Instead, she became more self-reflective and analytical of her own behaviours. “It excited me to have those moments of flirtation on the new album, but also broaden the spectrum of what the subject of a pop song was allowed to be,” she declares.

The Loneliest Time sees the pop star breaking the mould again. Jepsen’s insatiable curiosity is what’s helped her remain a creative force, and on this record, that meant mixing the wistful 80s pop of Belinda Carlisle with horn-flanked funk numbers and victorious disco jaunts. But it was also important for her to not be seen as one-dimensional. For instance, recent single Beach House is the antithesis of the soothing ambience of Western Wind. One of the singer’s most playful tracks, it’s a campy pop anthem that finds Jepsen and her bandmates larping as boys going on bad dates. “This is a song for the girls!” she asserts with a wide grin. It also features some of her most absurd lyrics. “It was the shortest straw-pull for who had to sing, ‘I’ve got a lake house in Canada, I’m going to come harvest your organs,’” she snickers about the song’s lyrics. But while the track veers toward being lighthearted, there are harsh realities within it. “I wanted to highlight that feeling when you’re disenchanted after being on a dating app for a hot minute to be like, ‘That guy’s just going to… he’s going to wreck me.’”

Lovely.

the first track on this is kinda reminiscent of "1 thing" but chiller? jazzier? she's never made anything that sounded at all like this before

wow "after last night" !

this is very much an outtakes collection in that there is some wild stylistic variation and quality is a bit inconsistent but the highs are excellent and it's nice to hear her go relatively out there

did this leak or something

yes

did not expect from "shy boy" that this would contain some of the most daring music of her career

"shadow" ;_;

"put it to rest" is going to be my favorite crj song of all time for a while. thinking of it as an indirect sequel to "warm blood," where that took place on the inside this one's on the outside, cool air rushing across bare skin

I can't listen to it yet, so i'm stuck revisiting The Loneliest Time.
And i'm realizing i was wrong about "Beach House". It's glorious.

i'm not entirely convinced by the song of "put it to rest" but the textures are absolutely gorgeous

Enjoying the variety and new avenues on this.

Psychedelic Switch is almost a Perfume track but with the dial tuned a bit more back towards Daft Punk.

This whole album is fantastic, but woah at Put It To Rest. Unbelievable song. Kind of goes a bit Heaven by Emeli Sande towards the end.

I love "Kamikaze"

what is the style of "Put It To Rest" call? that sorta intersection of the stuttering beat and floaty piano ... it's beautiful. i figure it sounds like some style of dance music i'm not familiar with.

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One of Obama's picks I guess

what is the style of "Put It To Rest" call? that sorta intersection of the stuttering beat and floaty piano ... it's beautiful. i figure it sounds like some style of dance music i'm not familiar with.

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Float house?

I think I've made peace with the fact that the only time CRJ and I were really vibing on the same plane was in 2015. Ah well.

After Last Night, Kollage, Psychedelic Switch and Put It To Rest are up there with my favourite things she's done. I was not expecting to love this album as much as I do.

^^ I'd add "So Right" to those picks. I wasn't crazy about "Shy Boy" so I'm also surprised how much I like this album - her first side-B that rivals the parent album imo

It's the first one I've liked more than the parent album. It might be my favourite since Emotion.

idk Dedicated Side B was pretty great. And Emotion Side B was "only" an EP. So it's not like this has happened so much.

i think it's easily better and more interesting than dedicated side b, but i prefer the loneliest time as an album to this which is much more eclectic for better & worse

It took me a long time to come around to Dedicated and Dedicated Side B. Now I really love them in addition to (and as a continuation of) Emotion. Maybe that will happen to me again with Loneliest/Loveliest, but so far I haven't warmed up to either of them.

Oops got the names mixed up. "Shadow" was the one I'd call a highlight, not "So Right". "So Right" has a nice pre-chorus though

no I'm relistening now and "So Right" is a highlight too. Goddamn it everything is a highlight

“shadow” is really great…

it's so great, she and rostam have really got something

i hesitate to call it one of her best songs about having a crush (so i guess just one of her best songs) but "the architecture of this connection is your reflection / it's always following me" is an amazing pop chorus lyric

this album fucking owns

I am very much in love with 'After Last Night'.

I am very much in love with 'After Last Night' - feels like a drum and bass Joe Hisaishi theme for a Ghibli movie.

Same about « After Last Night ». I hadn’t noticed it was a Rostam co-written/produced track. It doesn’t have his usual style.

yeah also surprised it was his track. "Shadow" too. both great songs atypical of his prior productions (that I've heard)

crj and rostam:

warm blood
western wind
go find yourself or whatever
after last night
shadow

they should make a whole album together

Whoa, this album's great! Way better than the last one for me

peace, man at 9:31 31 Jul 23

It took me a long time to come around to Dedicated and Dedicated Side B. Now I really love them in addition to (and as a continuation of) Emotion. Maybe that will happen to me again with Loneliest/Loveliest, but so far I haven't warmed up to either of them.

https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/carly-rae-jepsen/2023/the-rooftop-at-pier-17-new-york-ny-73a45a39.html

can’t believe i just saw this. best crj show i’ve ever been to. pure joy

pic.twitter.com/FtLWhE8Y6K

— gabriel (@gabrielkdt) August 6, 2023

Love that.

I managed to see her twice in 8 days just recently (opening for Boygenius and then at Osheaga) and she was delightful as always.

This album is so sick

of everybody tellin' me what to do

"after last night" and "anything to be with you" are immediately my favorite ever carly rae songs.

when that bari sax comes squonking in

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XnifCyL5aU

Kollage on Good Morning America. Amazing performance, although it's just a late night song that it seems a little weird in front of the bright "summer concert series" backdrop.

Kollage has become my favourite on the album. That's a great performance of it.

does after last night give anyone else super mario 3 vibes?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwk9mrE-cFA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ho8NDNapmd4

listening through the ILM albums of 2023 and Kollage popped up, genuinely surprised that Men I Trust weren't involved with that track, it sounds just like them