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Post by Admin on Jun 19, 2015 21:21:18 GMT
Carly Rae Jepsen had the honor of inducting Cyndi Lauper into the Songwriters Hall of Fame on Thursday night, and as a tribute, she sang Lauper’s hit “Time After Time” backed by a full band. “I still can’t believe I make a living making music,” Lauper said after the performance. “I’m blown away.” Jepsen has spoken at length about how much Lauper influenced her new album, and credits Lauper for her current obsession with ’80s music, so it was fitting that she was able to pay tribute on at the ceremony. Bobby Braddock, Willie Dixon, Robert Hunter & Jerry Garcia, Toby Keith and Linda Perry were also inducted into the hall on Thursday night. Carly was on-hand at the event to help induct Cyndi Lauper into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, and did a special performance of Cyndi’s popular song Time after Time to celebrate the singer’s new achievement. Carly is currently prepping for the release of her new album Emotion, which will be available for pre-sale on iTunes June 23rd!
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Post by Admin on Jun 21, 2015 21:22:00 GMT
Carly Rae Jepsen was at a Starbucks in her early days of fame when she realized she could no longer hide from celebrity. “The (barista was) kind of eyeing me up and when she asked me what my name was on the cup I immediately spat out, ‘Erika!’” she told the Star in a phone interview from Charlotte, N.C., where she was performing. “She wrote ‘Carly’ on it anyway.” Three years after her breakaway hit “Call Me Maybe,” Jepsen’s fame shows no sign of fading. She’s since performed on Broadway, recorded her third album, EMOTION — set for release in Canada in August — and silenced naysayers who wrote her off as a one-hit-wonder. On Sunday, she’ll perform her latest hit single, “I Really Like You,” live at the Much Music Video Awards, along with other performers including Fall Out Boy, Jason Derulo, Walk off the Earth, Shawn Mendes, the Weeknd and co-host Ed Sheeran (9 p.m. on Much). “It’s going to feel really good to be back in Canada,” said Jepsen, calling the MMVAs a Canadian artists’ reunion of sorts. “Any time that we get an opportunity to play in our home country, there’s always a different kind of joy and pride to it.” The 29-year-old sounds relaxed and laidback despite her busy schedule — she’s flying to Japan after the MMVAs — and her pending album release. But the Mission, B.C., native isn’t one to rush. EMOTION comes out three years after her second album, Kiss, and Jepsen admits she felt pressure to crank out “Call Me Maybe 2.0” after the viral hit’s success. But that didn’t appeal to her. Instead, she moved from Los Angeles to New York, landed the title role in Cinderella on Broadway and felt a weight lift off her shoulders. “I think I needed to work off a bunch of that pressure before I could start writing,” she said. “That’s why I think it took me so long to make this bloody album.” Jepsen calls EMOTION a Cyndi Lauper-inspired album that taps into the emotional pop music of the ’80s.
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Post by Admin on Jun 23, 2015 21:19:24 GMT
The MuchMusic Video Awards are like no other. The streets outside the station’s corner headquarters in downtown Toronto are shut down to accommodate thousands of fans. Plus, the whole awards presentation and its performances take place outdoors on a massive stage. Before start time, just like many award shows, are the red carpet arrivals, where several hundred fans try to get selfies and signatures with the artists and assorted presenters. Canadian Carly Rae Jepsen is also happy to be in the T-dot -- the name given to Toronto two decades ago by MC K-4ce. While she is from the West Coast, she spent time here during her run on Canadian Idol, pre-“Call Me Maybe” fame. “The fans are fantastic,” she said of the MMVAs. “It’s always amazing to come back home.” She had retreated from the insanity for a bit in the winter of 2013/14 when she took a 12-week run on Broadway in Cinderella, but returned to the pop life this year with her third album, Emotion. “I love being part of [theatre] because you feel you are one thread in a bigger production. You’re part of a story,” Jepsen told Billboard, “but it’s not your story and that was a humbling nice experience after the chaos of pop. But I really like spontaneity and that's why this career is really fun for me too to plan and change and go with the flow and feed off of my mood.”
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Post by Admin on Jul 4, 2015 21:28:57 GMT
Carly Rae Jepsen appeared at the Songwriters Hall of Fame Induction and Awards Gala on Thursday, and shared some details about the making of her upcoming album E·MO·TION, due out Aug. 21. “Part of the mission was not just going with people that my A&R guy set me up with, but also just reaching out to artists that I loved and producers who I got wind of,” Jepsen told EW. “If they said yes, sometimes some magic happened.” The “Call Me Maybe” singer didn’t specify which artists those were, but E·MO·TION features a stacked roster of collaborators that includes Sia, Ariel Rechtshaid (Haim, Sky Ferreira, Brandon Flowers), Weekend’s Rostam Batmanglij, Blood Orange’s Dev Hynes, and Greg Kurstin (Kelly Clarkson, Foster the People). Jepsen also specified two E·MO·TION songs beyond lead single “I Really Like You” that she’s eager for fans to hear. “I’m really excited about ‘Run Away With Me’ coming out,” she said. “ ‘Black Heart’ is one of my more quirky, weird ones, but I love it.”
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Post by Admin on Jul 17, 2015 21:04:53 GMT
SEARCH OVER, EVERYBODY. Our song of the summer is located, and it's Carly Rae Jepsen's "Run Away With Me." The beat is perfect. The melody has burrowed into our heads eternal. Good job, Carly Rae! You've got us with this one.
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