Carly Rae Jepsen • Kiss

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.

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.

― some dude, Tuesday, March 3, 2015 1:01 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

SAME! it's that quirky, absurdist lyricism that is cute and affable enough inspire memes but not be entirely loathsome. that's all over Kiss, especially present on Call me Maybe (before you came into my life i missed you so bad)

what came to mind for me was "really don't care" by demi but that's more lyrics and lane than melody

http://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/carly-rae-jepsen-debuts-i-really-like-you-video?CID=DISH_CRJ

Love the song but hate hate hate the product placement in the video (as with earlier CRJ videos)

I want to see Tom Hanks in RuPaul's Drag Race now

Super shit video.

Hanks being able to mime AT ALL would've improved it. And maybe bringing CRJ in about 2 minutes earlier.

i like the video a lot, just wish hanks had actually bothered to learn the lyrics

"So we're paying Hanks $1m per hour? One take it is then."

friday night video - man, crj's team must hate her

embarrassing video imo

I'm still not sure about this song. Sort of everything is in place… but it feels like there are too many "really"s in the chorus? It's as if she's trying to convince herself. I mean, the music conveys this feeling of euphoria and full-blown infatuation, but somehow even she isn't buying it? Maybe I've got it all wrong.

The verses are perfect, though. And the vocals are great too!

The video is OK.

Yeah idk about this one - feel like those enormous 80s production clouds deserve a rushier melody in the chorus than that, forget Taylor, it could stand to be more Roxette.