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Post by Admin on Apr 27, 2019 6:57:30 GMT
Carly Rae Jepsen stopped by BBC Radio 1's Live Lounge on Thursday to play a cover of Khalid's Free Spirit single "Talk." Watch it now up above.
The pop sensation is gearing up for the release of her forthcoming studio album Dedicated, due out this May.
Last week, CRJ shared "Julien," the third single off the LP, following "Now That I Found You" and "No Drug Like Me."
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Post by Admin on May 1, 2019 17:22:38 GMT
“You have to promise you won’t think I’m a maniac,” Carly Rae Jepsen says, sitting in the living room of her Spanish-style home on L.A.’s east side. A devilish grin spreads across her face, which these days is framed by a short, blond bob instead of her signature mahogany hair. She sets down her tea, jumps off her plush blue couch and runs to the dining room. When she returns, she’s clutching a few large, sturdy poster boards. On the largest — scrawled in different colors and surrounded by a bouquet of Post-it notes — are the titles of nearly 200 songs Jepsen wrote for Dedicated, her fourth album (due May 17th). Her latest track list is on the smallest board. That one is a mere two dozen or so songs. “When you get to the place where you know somebody, and they’ve seen your absolute embarrassing worst and love you still, there’s a rush and a high,” she explains, grinning at the mere thought. Even the way relationships evolve excite her; she cites her continued close friendship with Larkins since the breakup. “I try to create that with the music that I make: a feeling of a moment being so intense that you’re present in it and you’re nowhere else.”
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Post by Admin on May 11, 2019 18:25:21 GMT
Carly Rae Jepsen released the fifth single from her upcoming album Dedicated. The song, “Too Much,” is a steamy dance track over a single electronic beat, and deals with a classic CRJ theme: being utterly overcome with emotion. “When I party, then I party too much/When I feel it, then I feel it too much/When I’m thinking, then I’m thinking too much/When I’m drinking, then I’m drinking too much/I’ll do anything to get to the rush,” Jepsen confesses during the chorus. There are even a couple of lyrical throwbacks to prior CRJ songs (“‘Cause when I get so low, it takes me higher”).
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Post by Admin on May 12, 2019 17:44:56 GMT
Jepsen is one of pop’s more intriguing characters. When Call Me Maybe entered the Hot 100 in her home country, Canada, seven years ago she thought she’d made it. Then Justin Bieber heard the impossibly catchy track, filmed himself and Selena Gomez lip-syncing to it, tweeted the video, and it was viewed 76 million times. The song mutated into countless cover versions: even Colin Powell sang a creaky version on live TV. In the video for Jepsen’s follow-up hit, I Really Like You, Tom Hanks lip-syncs to her words and they dance together, a preposterous and happy pairing like Beauty and the Beast. There followed a mashup version of that track, made from Nick Clegg speeches. Jepsen quickly became one of the most-memed popstars in the history of social media. There was the tumblr campaign to give her a sword, and make her look like Joan of Arc (“I like her and I think she should have one” the poster deadpanned). There was a tweet about why she was better than Mozart (“Carly: writes her own lyrics / Mozart: no words in songs”). Less glossy and styled than other stars of the LA song machine, she is endearingly more Cyndi Lauper than Katy Perry. Love and music became intertwined. “When I’d listen to songs, I’d end up feeling for the artists to such an extent that it would bring me to tears if I imagined too much about them,” she says. Her parents, who remain friendly, still shared a love of James Taylor – so she’d listen to him. Her mother would sit her down with a little wine glass full of juice and ask her what she thought Leonard Cohen’s song Famous Blue Raincoat was about. “We had all these conspiracies: Jane was definitely in love with this guy, not that guy.” They still play the lyrics game when she goes home.
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Post by Admin on May 17, 2019 17:37:53 GMT
Two years ago, Carly Rae Jepsen took a break from her pop star life and boarded a plane to Italy. The goal was to take a holiday by herself, away from the hustle of LA, free from managers and entourages and the constant ping of emails. "I'm so used to travelling with a whole army of helpers and people around me that I forgot my credit cards," the Canadian singer says, giggling self-consciously. "And then I couldn't find the dude from the Airbnb I was staying at. His name was supposed to be Giorgio, and I went around looking for him. Some old man came up to me, who I thought was Giorgio, and he pinched my cheeks and said, 'Ciao, bella' and took off! "I was like, 'This is not a good start.' But it turned itself around pretty quickly."
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