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Post by Admin on May 18, 2019 17:51:43 GMT
What's on top: Candles, reading glasses, and Weleda Renewing Night Cream. I probs wouldn't want my mom to find... If I didn't want my mom to find it, I probably shouldn't write it in a magazine! http://instagram.com/p/BkY69NXlrIg Sleep masks—yay or nay? On the plane, definite yay. For home life, nay. What about snacks? I did find some Cheetos in there the other day. http://instagram.com/p/BxkWO4AleIz Books by the bed: I like to flip through either poetry or old period pieces. Anything that helps me get out of my own head for a second before going to sleep. Leonard Cohen's Book of Longing has probably been there the longest. What I steal from my partner's nightstand: His is pretty empty.
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Post by Admin on May 22, 2019 17:33:47 GMT
Last week Carly Rae Jepsen released Dedicated, her first album in four years. It’s a classic pop record: simple lyrics, pleasingly generic production, and swelling, sugary hooks. It’s the type of music you’ve heard a million times before but, when done well — as it often is on Dedicated — the type you love all the more for its cozy familiarity. Dedicated, though, won’t be a chart topper. As of today, it sits at No. 12 on iTunes, and none of its songs are in Spotify’s Top 200. This should come as no surprise: Jepsen’s last full-length album, 2015’s Emotion, debuted at No. 16, and she hasn’t had a song chart on the Billboard Hot 100 since that album’s lead single, “I Really Like You,” stalled at No. 39. None of this will matter a lick. Since the release of Emotion, now a beloved cult pop classic, Jepsen has emerged at the forefront of micro pop stardom, leading a wave of artists that also includes Charli XCX, Lizzo, Janelle Monae, Kacey Musgraves, Troye Sivan, and Kim Petras. This crew trades largely in classic, “pure” pop music; sometimes it’s got a country twang, as with Musgraves, or trends towards hip-hop, as with Monae and Lizzo. But what sets these artists apart in today’s broader music landscape is their dedication to the kind of inviting, melodic, stick-in-your-cranium earworms that made superstars of everyone from Michael Jackson to Taylor Swift.
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Post by Admin on May 28, 2019 17:48:58 GMT
It won’t be a Party For One when popster Carly Rae Jepsen brings her summer tour touting her first new album in four years to Ottawa’s Bronson Centre Sept. 16. Tickets for the 19+ show are $45 to $169 and go on sale to the general public May 31. The Mission B.C.-born Jepsen, who landed on music charts in 2012 with Call Me Maybe, starts her tour with two shows in Vancouver. She’s at MTELUS in Montreal Sept. 12 and the Sony Centre in Toronto Sept. 14. Dedicated, released this month by Vancouver’s 604 Records, is Jepsen’s first album since 2015’s E*MO*TION, which was declared the pop album of the year by multiple outlets including TIME, Entertainment Weekly, Pitchfork, People, Stereogum, Vulture, Complex, and Noisey.
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Post by Admin on Jun 9, 2019 17:34:34 GMT
Carly Rae Jepsen released Dedicated in May 2019, an album with 15 new songs. Some songs, like “Too Much” and “Want You In My Room” already gained millions of plays on Spotify. This is the first full-length album the artist released since 2015.
This album still features Carly Rae Jepsen’s signature bubblegum pop style, although some songs featuring more adult themes than her previous work. When describing Dedicated, she says part of her inspiration stemmed from a breakup. This album takes fans through the story of her relationship.
“I went through a breakup with a long time, like, best friend, and also a creative collaborator,” Jepsen said in an interview with NPR. “Then I was in singlehood for a while, and for the first time in my adult years, in a place where I was traveling and didn’t have anyone to text after the show, to be like ‘It went great!’ or ‘I tripped!’ It was a strange sort of loneliness, and I wanted the songs to show that, because I felt like I was going to feel less lonely by sharing, in a way.”
One of the opening tracks, “Julien,” is about a boy that the artist had a brief relationship with. One of the most prominent things Jepsen remembers about him was how musical his name was. In an interview with NPR, Carly Rae Jepsen explained that she used his name in songs before, but this is the first song that “scratched the itch” of that feeling.
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Post by Admin on Jul 4, 2019 17:27:47 GMT
Carly Rae Jepsen, pop's reigning master of love songs, is giving us the business, and Dedicated has only been out for a little over a month. In a new interview with SF Weekly, the acclaimed singer/songwriter reveals that she made a full album called Disco Sweat while recording the songs that would ultimately form her just-released fourth studio effort. But don't get too excited. Jepsen says it will "probably never be released, and shouldn't." J'excuse? Disco is the perfect genre for Jepsen to channel, and the perfect visual era to reference. Sorry, but we hard disagree. Jepsen goes on to say that her intentions when recording it were to make a breezy disco album, which frankly couldn't be more on-brand for the nostalgia-leaning pop queen. "I started off with a very strong intention to make an understated disco, living room dance party thing," she said, adding that the album was inspired by "going to Sweden and really digging into some ABBA stuff." And while Jepsen said the album won't likely see the light of day anytime soon, if ever, she says Dedicated has hints of the direction she was headed in with Disco Sweat. She said she wanted to play with multiple styles rather than limiting herself exclusively to '70s disco. "I think there are songs on the new album that achieved kinda what I was envisioning, I think 'Julien' is a good example of that," Jepsen explains, going to to say that Disco Sweat will "be buried in my backyard."
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