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Post by Admin on Jul 29, 2015 20:55:32 GMT
Carly Rae Jepsen gets the party going while performing at 2015 Portsmouth Live! on Saturday (July 25) in Portsmouth, England. The 29-year-old “Run Away With Me” musician wore a cute fedora with her bright yellow pants for the concert, as a part of the America’s Cup World Series. “Portsmouth had me feeling like I could lift a ferris wheel today! ? @americascup,” Carly Rae shared on Twitter afterwards. Earlier in the week, BBC Radio doctored a fun video with Carly Rae and Nick Jonas.
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Post by Admin on Aug 9, 2015 20:47:25 GMT
Carly Rae Jepsen is on a mission to annihilate her “one-hit-wonder” label, one perfect new song at a time. She’s been releasing a song nearly every week in anticipation of her new album EMOTION, and today’s track is one of her best, the blockbuster anthem Making the Most of the Night. Fellow pop mastermind Sia wrote the track, and just like Chandelier and her other best works, Making the Most of the Night swings for the rafters, an explosive few minutes of pop that deserves an arena-tour treatment.
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Post by Admin on Aug 13, 2015 20:49:19 GMT
Innocence isn’t easy to come by, especially in a realm that purports to epitomize it — teen pop. Much of the stuff labeled as such features production and writing by middle-aged men, cynically simulating the genuine yearnings of young girls. Jepsen used all this to stirring effect on her breakthrough smash, “Call Me Maybe,” a work musicologists will be studying for a millennium. In lyrical construction, melodic flourish, instrumental arrangement, and vocal longing, “Maybe” had the urgency and sweep of the greatest teen pop songs. It’s a nearly impossible work to follow. So, smartly, Jepsen has switched up her sonic setting for this, her follow-up album. Ripping a page from the Taylor Swift playbook, Jepsen’s new songs drool over ’80s synth-pop, doting on street-urchin-era Madonna. Several songs undulate with the burping beat of “Borderline.” Others lean toward seminal Maddy ballads like “Crazy for You.” The start of “Boy Problems” swipes nearly as much from “Into the Groove” as Lady Gaga lifted from “Express Yourself.” In the track “All That,” Jepsen convincingly mimics the baby-doll coos of ’80s Janet Jackson. You keep waiting for its video to be introduced by Martha Quinn.
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Post by Admin on Aug 17, 2015 20:43:20 GMT
Carly Rae Jepsen has released another synth-heavy, Eighties-inspired love song off her upcoming LP Emotion. This time, it's the heart-wrenching, lovesick track "Your Type." "I want you to miss me when I'm not around you," Jepsen sings on the track about the desire to be more than friends with her romantic interest. The electro-pop track has less urgency than her previously released songs, including "Run Away With Me" and "Making the Most of the Night." On the original name of her new album“There was a song called ‘Eternal Summer’ that was originally going to be the album’s title. It’s about how LA is this eternal summer. You lose perspective of time.” On the new album she’s not releasing (anytime soon)“I made an indie album that probably no one will ever hear. I think there is a natural rebellion when you have success in one are to completely rebel against that. I needed to get that out of my system, I think. I made really weird music. But I didn’t want to release that album. It felt not like the move I felt like making. At first, when I was in LA [working on the new album], I was making very pure pure pop again, kind of almost Kiss. I wasn’t feeling that. The indie album was too hot, too cold. E • Mo •Tion felt like the right balance.” On her influences“I grew up in a very folk-influenced family. We were listening to Cat Stevens and Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, Van Morrison. I still love all those artists. The first songs I was learning to plug out on my dad’s guitar were very folky songs. But then the Spice Girls record came out and ruined everything for me.” “I also grew up listening to jazz, because of my grandmother. Pop Music reminded me of jazz, in its simplicity. It reminded me of really good 1940s standard jazz song, and how it can condense so many thoughts into a simple six-word sentence that hits you.” On her early days as a struggling singer-songwriter“It was a very bohemian lifestyle. For a while, I was living with a girl named Veronique, a French Canadian girl, who had a pull-out couch, and she was renting it for 400 dollars a month. Which is more than I could afford. I was working as a coffee barista. And then I soon became the pastry chef’s assistant, because the actual chef went away to see her internet lover in Norway. I was the only one who knew how to make all those pastries. I could make you eight cheesecakes at a time. Slowly building my way to the top!” I was also a bartender at this place called Media Club. God only knows how I passed my bartending exam. Actually, I do know. The guy asked me to dinner at the end of it. And I was like: “That’s why I got 98 percent.” [laughs] Somehow I got a job out of that thing, and all I knew how to make was a screwdriver. And beer.” On making it“I remember negotiating the deal with Schoolboy Records I was in the back of a soccer-mom van, which we had rented, which was all [the band] could afford at the time. We were all sardining ourselves into hotel rooms together. We were opening for the Hanson Brothers on their Canadian Tour, in the middle of winter, and it was freezing cold. I was in the back, with my laptop, on the phone, with my managers, lawyers, being like: ‘Say it again? I’m gonna need you to repeat that like eight more times, and then maybe it might sink in.’ I flew the following week, when the tour wrapped up, to meet Scooter [Braun] and Justin [Bieber] and then the entire team at the label. I did one of those label teams at Interscope, where they say: ‘Hi! I’m involved in marketing!’ ‘I’ll be taking care of all your booking!’ I can remember me and my sister walking around Vancouver, trying to post my posters for a show that I had, and making that concoction of milk and flour, that glue that you make. And we got it wrong, so it just looked like someone had thrown up all over my poster. It looked like vomit all over town. We did everything! I folded my own merch shirts, and had a company that was volunteering to make stickers for me. After my show, I didn’t have anyone that I could afford to do merch for me, so I’d be watching my merch while I was singing, and then running over there afterwards hoping no one had stolen anything. So to be at this table, going around the whole huge table of people. I just stood up and said: “I’ve been waiting my whole life to meet all of you.”
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Post by Admin on Aug 27, 2015 20:45:32 GMT
Carly Rae Jepsen’s newest album, Emotion, is officially out – and it’s just as vibrant, catchy, and colorful as you’d hoped. While many thought she’d be a “one hit wonder” after “Call Me Maybe” exploded in 2012, Emotion proves she’s here for the long haul. Many are even comparing the upbeat album to Taylor Swift’s record-breaking 1989 – several headlines boast the question: “Carly Rae Jepsen’s ‘Emotion’ Better Than Taylor Swift’s ‘1989’?” But in a candid new interview, the 29-year-old tells ET she isn’t trying to compete. “I don’t really feel the need to compare,” she explains. “I think that Taylor's fantastic and I think she made a really fantastic record, but they're different types of music and I think there's room for it all.” But still, Carly felt the pressure to deliver a solid record after the success she received in 2012. “I mean, that was a bit of a monster of a song - it was an incredible gift but definitely a challenge and I think that’s part of the reason probably that it was so vital to me to take my time with this album and make sure that every song really had a home and a reason for being there,” she says. “I think that I learned a little bit about taking more of a lead role in my own project - not that I wasn’t very vocal with Kiss,” she adds, “but I think if you’re not willing to direct and steer the ship a bit it kind of gets steered for you.” “I don’t know! You tell me,” she jokes. “The place where I feel the most comfortable is probably in the studio writing… I mean, obviously when you get on stage and you kind of have that moment of connection with your fans that’s always really fantastic and hearing you say you like songs - that means everything to me - but I don’t know if I’ve really thought too much about where that puts me and my place.” “With this album I knew I wanted to kind of stretch the lines of what pop music needed to be,” she continues. “And I think some of those experiments led to some of my favorite songs: “Warm Blood,” “All That,” and “When I Needed You.” “If I were to predict the future… I would probably go a little bit more in that direction of just experimenting and coloring more outside the lines.”
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