New Carly Rae Jepsen album ‘Emotion’ sounds like Grammy victor

But together with her new album, “Emotion“, which got here out Friday, Jepsen is making an attempt cleverly to: It’s a sensible set of hipster-artisanal pop songs filled with gently grown-up lyrics and the retro ’80s textures in vogue proper now amongst acts as numerous as Haim, Disclosure and the Weeknd. Although other singles This Kiss and Tonight I’m Getting Over You failed to gain traction, the album’s middling returns didn’t faze her at the time.

“Carly Rae Jepsen’s Sophomore-Style Comeback” is categorized as “entertainment”.

Teaming with an army of innovative collaborators including Sia, Dev Hynes, Shellback (Britney Spears, Adam Lambert) and Ariel Rechtshaid (Madonna, Sky Ferreira), Jepsen hasn’t so much reinvented her sound as she has gone deeper into it.

But unlike Swift, Jepsen lacks the songwriting chops to pull off clever hooks and narratives – a fact she’s completely aware of, which is precisely why she decided to make up for it with the star-studded production.

“There was something about (Lauper’s) songs that felt really timeless to me, and I found myself loving the stories inside them”, Jepsen says.

Carly Rae Jepsen’s third studio album was whittled down from over 200 songs that she has written in the past three years. Just looking at the line-up of helpers, it’s clear Jepsen means business this time around. Its success proved that in an age when music listeners have millions of songs at their fingertips, it was still possible for a pop single to facilitate a shared cultural experience. I can relate to everything that they’re saying, but I wanted [E·MO·TION] to be an album that people could also feel like was theirs, not just mine. “And when it comes to selling your story as a product, all those artists are eating the dust of Taylor Swift, whose preplanned “candid” paparazzi shoots and carefully leaked gossip tidbits keep her personal saga in business even between album cycles”. “Maybe just don’t look at me”. It’s an album that believes deeply in sharing all that you’re feeling in the moment, in giving voice to the momentary infatuation which so often goes unexpressed but is no less real.