Carly Rae Jepsen • Kiss

it's like everything you say is a sweet rev-e-la-a-tion

song is mostly great, should've ditched the third verse imo

there's a third verse? only hearing bliss and iridescence

this sounds a lot like taylor

this is fucking great

it is quite 'new romantics'

IT IS BEAUTIFUL

To me it sounds like Taylor, in that a lot of stuff from her last album reminded me of stuff from Carly Rae Jepsen's last album.

I mean it also doesn't sound too far off from how Tegan and Sara's last album sounded.

I rly rly rly rly rly rly like this

(it sounds like early madonna, in the way that a lot of things out lately do -- I almost want to say the "revelation" line is trying to be "into the groove" but I know it isn't)

To me it sounds like Taylor, in that a lot of stuff from her last album reminded me of stuff from Carly Rae Jepsen's last album.

― MarkoP, Sunday, March 1, 2015 2:45 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah i thought the same thing. and it's not like taylor's album doesn't sound like a bunch of 80s pop itself

this is just really really really really fucking good

this sounds a lot like taylor

― nose, Sunday, March 1, 2015 2:29 PM (26 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it is quite 'new romantics'

― uberweiss, Sunday, March 1, 2015 2:39 PM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

please read a book

or like listen to something released pre-11/2014

I love that this deals with my two favourite emotions in pop music, at once, namely "I really really really really really really like you" and "do you want me too?" - the two most relatable feelings possible.

I love the Taylor-esque details in the verse lyrics but I think this is stronger because it doesn't come with the baggage of the cleverness of inevitable examinations of authorial intent - not to say something like "Style" doesn't stand on its own merits but the simplicity of this feels a lot more universal in its scope.

or like listen to something released pre-11/2014

― maura, Sunday, March 1, 2015 2:56 PM (54 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

why

i think the taylor-esque details are actually crj-esque details. this song is definitely of a piece with her other liminal-state-of-wanting songs ("call me maybe," "tonight i'm getting over you")

this is super-good but it sounds more like, yknow, just carly rae's own debut album than anything else!

i mean not exactly like it but it sounds pretty much like what i expected a CRJ comeback to

You do know that Kiss was not her debut album, right?

Nobody, including her most likely, cares about her actual debut album.

Uhm, I do.

one of these days i'll listen to it

Nobody, including her most likely, cares about her actual debut album.

― Johnny Fever, Sunday, March 1, 2015 4:45 PM (22 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

speak for yourself

I'm sure plenty of people like super-timid sub-Natasha Bedingfield acoustipop shit, but not me.

This tune is a belter. How long until the album is out?

As much as I'd like to say the fact it's written by some of The Cardigans makes some difference, it really doesn't. It's not a particularly Cardigans-y song. Good for them still banging around in 2015 tho.

lol i just wrote something about how it DOES make a difference, jeez jf

cardigans bro also co-wrote "love me harder" though which i think is more relevant

:D

Not so much this song, but I can hear a lot of First Band On The Moon in things like Avril's "Rock And Roll" and that One Direction song he was involved in.

As much as I'd like to say the fact it's written by some of The Cardigans makes some difference, it really doesn't. It's not a particularly Cardigans-y song. Good for them still banging around in 2015 tho.

― Johnny Fever, Monday, March 2, 2015 2:03 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

more like hanging onto the same old song amirite

Brad, I assume you're talking about the Ariana Grande song? afaik I haven't heard it. I didn't realize he was doing so much pop songwriting, though.

Katherine, are you talking about Lovefool?

"Love Me Harder" plays, like, every five minutes down here.

I love this Jepsen song on sixth listen. Not the eighties but a record imbued with received ideas about The Eighties

i feel like we're long past the point where this particular kind of pop toolkit necessarily signifies "the Eighties." it's the sound of now.

I'm making a cheap joke about the cardigans song "hanging around"

lol it's been years and years since I've listened to them in earnest, so i missed it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARiiO_41Id8

it has possibly the best vocal glottal-stop sound in all of music but that's a tangent

the cardigans are the best

pretty sure you'd like "love me harder" jf

oh wow
this song is glorious

had to open a window this was so stale

tbf the chorus seems a p real audio illustration of the corkscrewing psychosis of comeback anxiety

havent dressed in weeks, scrunched up paper balls everywhere, ok crj u can do this just simplify it yes simple really really really really really really sim-

on a muted television in the background the new tay video plays again

About to request a moratorium on any and all Taylor mentions.

lol rtc

yeah this popular-girl fascism needs to end pronto

my first thought shouldn't have been "this sounds like taylor" my bad.

it's pigeonholing and not even the most accurate assessment.

i wouldn't say that something that sounds like it could've been on CRJ's 2012 album should be compared to Taylor's 2014 album, but the "really really really really" thing made me think of "never ever ever" right away tbh.