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Post by Admin on Mar 16, 2019 17:47:55 GMT
Carly Rae Jepsen - Now That I Found You [Official Music Video] Carly Rae Jepsen has released the video for “Now That I Found You.” The single was previously teased in the trailer for the next season of Queer Eye and officially released last month. The video, directed by Carlos Lopez Estrada and Nelson de Castro, is a loving tribute to both the 1961 classic Breakfast at Tiffany’s and cat ladies.
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Post by Admin on Apr 4, 2019 17:22:28 GMT
April has already been the best month of this year, and we’re only on day two. Yesterday, Ariana released a new single and video which I wrote about earlier AND Carly Rae Jepsen announced that her new album Dedicated is dropping May 17th and that she’s touring starting at the end of June. Carly has already released three songs on the album: “Party for One”, “Now That I Found You”, and "No Drug Like Me”. This album announcement doesn’t come as too much of a surprise because Carly mentioned that it was coming, but the timing is a lot sooner than I was expecting. Plus, we’re getting a proper tour out of it as well (although regrettably one that’s not stopping anywhere near the Pacific Northwest). This album is a big deal. When Dedicated comes out, it will almost be four years since Emotion was released, and we will undoubtedly compare the two albums. Emotion was critically acclaimed, a masterpiece collection of songs. She reportedly worked on over 200 tracks and chose just 12 of those to put on the album. That’s Carly’s process – rapid creation and then careful curation. So what I’m worried about is how this album will hold up next to the one before it. Carly is dedicated to her work, she wouldn’t put out something unless it matched her standard.
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Post by Admin on Apr 9, 2019 17:32:55 GMT
But Emotion has set the bar really high and after four years of waiting, Carly fans are and eager for new music. In Pitchfork’s review of Emotion, they praise the album for its quality, but criticize it for its lack of personality – it’s missing Carly herself. I wonder if this is how Dedicated will differentiate itself. Out of the three singles we’ve seen so far, two of them celebrate Carly by herself. “Party for One” is about loving yourself and loving being by yourself and loving pleasuring yourself. “No Drug Like Me” is about how intoxicating she can be to her partner, because they haven’t met anyone like her. When we first heard about this album last November, Carly said it was about “romantic love but self-love too.” Dedicated seems like a title that fits both. You can be dedicated to others and you can be dedicated to yourself. We heard a lot about that first part from Emotion, but Emotion was also an attempt to show the world that Carly wasn’t just a one-hit-wonder with "Call Me Maybe".
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Post by Admin on Apr 11, 2019 17:39:31 GMT
Jepsen lights up a hookah in the video for “Now That I Found You”, the most recent release from Dedicated, her fifth studio album. What follows is what acid trips must sound like to the child of an optimist: kaleidoscopic visions of her ginger tabby and jars of milk swirl around her as she falls, delighted, into an electric blue galaxy. She wears a bodycon onesie covered in kittens, arms outstretched triumphantly. From her fingertips, she showers the interstellar tableau with glowing nebulas. Suddenly, Jepsen is jolted upright from under her sleep mask. Face pallid with a childlike shock, she remembers: her cat has run away. Under the gloss of tight art direction with a sheen of magical realism, Jepsen is a serviceable actor, especially when embodying the urgency of teen spirit. This is, in part, because that’s her brand. As Josephine Livingstone wrote for The New Republic, “The signature Carly Rae Jepsen flavor is uncertain, shy desire: wanting to make contact with the crush, wanting to confess that you really like him, wanting to run away.” However, this wasn’t always the case: while her current success bloomed when she leaned into the earnest feelings of a teen, her earliest work suggests a young artist performing adulthood in hopes of being taken seriously. Over the last decade, we’ve seen the pop star grow into herself by refusing to grow up. “Now That I Found You” is the latest stage in the Benjamin Buttoning of Carly Rae Jepsen.
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Post by Admin on Apr 13, 2019 17:31:41 GMT
Carly Rae Jepsen has recreated the iconic “This Is Your Brain On Drugs” public service announcement, more specifically the Rachel Leigh Cook version of it from the ’90s. She made it to promote her recent single “No Drug Like Me.” She, of course, says, “This is what happens to your brain when you listen to ‘No Drug Like Me.'” Why?, you might ask. Great question. Why not? Check it out below if you ever wanted to watch CRJ swing a frying pan around.
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