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Post by Admin on Jul 19, 2019 17:46:57 GMT
Carly Rae Jepsen - No Drug Like Me (Mansionair Remix)
In a new interview with Allure, Carly Rae Jepsen explained why she just can’t quit the mullet, and why she suddenly decided to dye her hair platinum blond.
Carly Rae Jepsen - Now That I Found You. An exclusive live performance for Vevo.
You can’t go wrong,” the “Party For One” singer, 33, said of the controversial cut.
“If it’s short enough, you’ll wake up, throw some gel on the front and the rest looks like you made a decision, and that for me is really fun. And maybe it’s such a historically unattractive hairstyle to some that there’s a boldness in it that I quite love, because then you just dial it up with makeup and you feel — I don’t know, I just always felt really empowered when I had it. I don’t know if I want to be Goldilocks. I want my edge.”
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Post by Admin on Jul 20, 2019 1:20:42 GMT
Carly Rae Jepsen is a candy-coated pinball bouncing off the walls at a ballistic pace in a Chinatown beauty store, making 1,000 observations a minute. The store is the size of a college dorm room, stocked mostly with colorful bottles imported from Japan and Korea: Every inch of space that is not occupied by a human body is teeming with product, including men’s “rubber” hair pastes, J-pop idol eyelashes, and a set of night girdles that promises to reduce cellulite. “I feel like we’re in Tokyo,” Jepsen says. Her eyes, manga-sized, scan a row of sheet masks printed with animal faces. Will you be a dog, the packaging asks, or will you be a cat? Jepsen considers her options for half a millisecond before moving on to her next quest: “the goopy stuff.” “Do you think they have the goopy stuff?” she asks. “Mama loves that.” (It is unclear what the goopy stuff is, or if we ever find it.) As a singer and songwriter, Jepsen is huge in Japan. (Not dimensions-wise: At five feet and two inches tall, she isn’t huge anywhere.) The country embraced her early on, thanks to the winning harmony of her viral brand of carbonated bubblegum pop music and the cultural appeal of her adorable presentation. It was two prom-night bops — “Call Me Maybe” and “I Really Like You” — that brought Jepsen into the houses and ears of every person in America. The latter single appeared on her 2015 album, Emotion. This year, she followed it up with Dedicated, an exuberant 15-track manifesto on the art of the pop music form. Critics agree: It bangs. Emotion was the kind of album that turns a Canadian Idol second runner-up into a critically acclaimed indie-pop darling — and somewhere between then and now, Jepsen traded in her brunette shag for a platinum bob, effectively announcing her entrance into the pop music canon. Along the way, she has learned many things. Among them: “Dark brown eyeliner. I learned that black isn’t always the answer.” Why go blonde? “You know what, Cyndi Lauper, girls just wanna have fun,” she says with a laugh. “But I think I got a little hooked on the feeling of chameleon-ing yourself and what that does for your confidence, even your sense of identity. It allows you the ability to kind of play and not have this expectation of what you’re supposed to be like. I was very much the girl next door — brown hair, kept the safety bangs, didn’t ever change a thing. The first time that I dabbled [in hair color], I felt like a new person.” Jepsen occupies a rare celebrity niche. She has enough fans to regularly sell out shows but has yet to ascend to the level of recognizability that would destroy her chance to shop for snail mucus on a Tuesday afternoon in lower Manhattan. The only places she cannot safely enter belong to her most rabid fan base: gay men. Once, when she and her boyfriend were out shopping, she saw a fashion show happening in a drag store and went in to investigate. “He, like, slowly, just took me out of there. ‘You’re going to get eaten.’ ” Her face melts into a giggle. “I was like, ‘But I want this wig!’ ”
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