Carly Rae Jepsen • Kiss

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.

diminishing returns on this already, it's giving me the idea of a pop rush but not the actual rush

Agree with lex

agree with daavid that the number of reallys in the chorus kills it

also what killed it is listening to kiss and realising every non-duet on that is better than this

think carly got me to like a dev hynes track

my body's molecules slowly becoming gemstones

basically

tears @ the roller disco

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W374tWnsk70

jordan it's funny you mentioned gemstones because the moment this song made me cry was when it brought to mind a certain steven universe scene

on the one hand I am pre-inclined to like this, but I wasn't exactly asking for a remake of solange's "bad girls" cut with britney spears' "sometimes"

This sounded so effing good on SNL.

right? she killed the last chorus

the like extra three chord changes in the final chorus otm

Dev gets a rough reception on ilm—sometimes deservedly so and sometimes not—but I feel comfortable saying this is the best song he's written and/or produced.

i completely agree, and i'm a trve dev-hater

His best co-written song is "Want Your Feeling".

love carjeps, mostly like dev hynes, but... it's a bit anemic, no? and every time I've listened to it since I stop halfway because I really just want to listen to Bad Girls instead

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWlzaRS-nRo

lol yeah i can't stand "bad girls" or any of his work with solange

every time I've listened to it since I stop halfway

Wrong move. The end is the best part!!

I don't love Dev, but don't get why Brad and others hate his stuff os much either

i hear "bad girls" in this a lot but it's like "bad girls" with an actual chorus and a great bridge?

^ otm "Bad GIrls" is a decent sketch and "All That" is a polished and refined end result.

Just bought this mp3 at Amazon btw, so if you need me I'll be sprawled across my bed listening to it on a loop for the next 24.

90% of the time dev's production and songwriting involves really gauzy extended synth chords and really rushed drum programming that completely fail to interact with each other, and his worst songs tend to feel completely directionless

completely completely completely

it's 2 am

it's like we're listening to entirely different songs at this point

Losing You is great, imo, but Bad Girls and Everything Is Embarrassing are flat and ponderous. I'll have to remind myself what else he's behind that's not his own solo work, but I know there were more than a few songs on Cupid Deluxe that I thought were great and some I didn't like AT ALL. Dude's a puzzle.

Wrong move. The end is the best part!!

― Johnny Fever, Sunday, April 5, 2015 1:52 AM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

what I meant was that I listened to it once all the way through, was underwhelmed, went back to listen to the solange and britney songs to make sure they was what I was really hearing and not "snow on the sahara" or "truly madly deeply", ended up getting stuck relistening at least once and in solange's case like five times to each of them, tried to listen to carly again, several times, gave up each time.

also both Bad Girls and Everything Is Embarrassing have fucking great bridges, the former possibly top five bridges of all time, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

it's like we're listening to entirely different songs at this point

we're coming at it from very different angles definitely

"losing you" is one of my least favorite songs of the last few years. i love "everything is embarrassing" while recognizing its limitations. my neutral/edging-on-positive feelings toward "want your feeling" i pin down almost exclusively to jessie ware

(obligatory: I like Carly Rae Jepsen, I loved the last single, I like large swaths of _Kiss_, I wouldn't listen to her new single repeatedly at -- christ -- 2 a.m. if I was just hijacking the thread to troll it, sometimes songs just don't work for people and even fans, I'd really like to not have hate mail be the first thing I read upon waking up, okay goodnight)

no i like your perspective itt katherine it is definitely making me feel like revisiting "bad girls" more

Basically I think Dev Hynes' greatest contribution to popular music in the past few years is making it cool to sound like mainstream 1985 again. Not "cool" 1985.

Didn't you say that about the new Brandon Flowers single too (produced by Dev's pal Ariel Rechtshaid)

*fist bumps brad* this song is dope

i like when dev is unapologetically pop w/ a traditional sense of songwriting than when he's hedging

to sound like a total popist here, i like when he's being a mercenary hitmaker rather than a ~deep~ synesthesist

xp I did! I guess it also applies here. I mean, give me less stuff that sounds like post-post-post-punk and more stuff that sounds like Sheena Easton or Mr. Mister.

Basically I think Dev Hynes' greatest contribution to popular music in the past few years is making it cool to sound like mainstream 1985 again. Not "cool" 1985.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, April 5, 2015

:D

xpost with deej: idk if i can make that distinction myself (mostly bc i avoided the blood orange record after hearing a few songs, and only encounter him on pop records now lol). i think this song breathes a lot more than his usual work though

bc the drums do not suck

I saw the big Blood Orange show in Central Park and the lasting point of reference for me was Billy Ocean

goddamn u ur gonna make me listen to blood orange

I wanna go to bed, but I also want to read Brad's live reaction to Blood Orange