Carly Rae Jepsen Made a Charming Tune About Christmas Unpleasantry
Christmas songs and holiday albums aren't necessarily the most thrilling releases, with a few legendary exceptions - but Carly Rae Jepsen's managed to make an amusing, deeply relatable contribution to the overstuffed genre. The 34-year-old "Run Away With Me" Canadian pop superhero returned on…
mxmtoon & Carly Rae Jepsen Know You'll Be 'ok on your own'
It's not you, it's mxmtoon. And Carly Rae Jepsen. Actually, it's no one's fault. And honestly, either way, you're going to be okay on your own. The 20-year-old ukelele-playing, TikTok-dominating indie singer-songwriter-podcaster and the 34-year-old E•MO•TION-al pop crooner have teamed up for a…
Carly Rae Jepsen Puts the 'Emotion' Bonus Tracks on Streaming, At Last
The Emotion – sorry, E•MO•TION – five year anniversary celebrations are in full swing now, and Carly Rae Jepsen‘s just done something long overdue. As if the record wasn’t incredible enough as it is in its deluxe edition form, there are two equally incredible songs that…
Carly Rae Jepsen Is Celebrating the 5th Anniversary of 'Emotion'
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Carly Rae Jepsen (@carlyraejepsen) on Aug 7, 2020 at 10:01am PDT Emotion – otherwise known as E•MO•TION, but more frequently regarded to as one of the Best Pop Albums of the 2010s (this is not opinion,…
'Lonely Christmas': Now, Now's Sad, Synth-y, Single Anthem for the Holidays
Christmas music isn't my thing, aside from "All I Want for Christmas Is You" - which we are absolutely streaming until we get Mariah Carey her No. 1 this year, darlings - Britney's "My Only Wish (This Year)" obviously and, of course, Hilary Duff's masterful debut, Santa Clause Lane. (Speaking of,…
'OMG': Oh My God, It's Carly Rae Jepsen & Gryffin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EO3nxLD_iAQ Oh my God: Carly Rae Jepsen, born Carly Raemmaculate Jepselegend of the North, has already returned to us with something new, just a few months after the release of her last studio album, Dedicated. "OMG" - which, spoiler alert, is not a cover of the…
'A Kiss Goodbye': Tei Shi Makes a Delicate & Dreamy Departure
The last we heard from Tei Shi - apart from a feature on Blood Orange's Negro Swan last year - was her gorgeous and sensual 2017 debut, Crawl Space. The 28-year-old singer-songwriter, born Valerie Teicher, has since moved from New York to Los Angeles, and as of Thursday (June 6), she's back with "A…
'Now That I Found You' & 'No Drug Like Me': Carly Rae Jepsen Provides Another Pop Fix
The year is 2019, and Carly Rae Jepsen, born Slayly Raemacculate Jepselegend Of The North, has returned to us on Wednesday (February 27) with not one, but two new Carly Rae Jams to inject directly into our veins and carry us through these most trying of times: "Now That I Found You" - sadly not a…
Marina Makes a Welcome Return to the Mess That's America
It's been 84 years, or at least a small handful, since Marina Diamandis - heretofore known as Marina & The Diamonds, henceforward simply Marina - graced a U.S. stage. If memory serves correctly (or, well, Billboard telling me so), the last time she performed stateside was during the final few shows…
Pop Goes The Future: The Many Reasons to Live for 2018
2017 might have been a tough one for many of us, but just as a wise woman once said after filming Evita: nothing takes the past away like the future. And so, as opposed to adding to the noise of the endless lists recapping the best parts of the past twelve months or dwelling on the…
'Pop 2': Charli XCX Auto-Tunes Out the Demons & Proves Herself to Be the Ultimate Curator of Cool (Review)
"Go fuck your prototype / I’m an upgrade of your stereotype." Look: Sophia isn't the only Femmebot poised to take over the world. After leading us into 2017 with her Number 1 Angel mixtape back in March, a collection of thumping, PC Music-produced future-bops that still holds up as one of the…
"Cut to the Feeling": Carly Rae Jepsen Offers a Warm, Familiar Embrace
Good things come to those who wait — for the international release of French-Canadian animated films after nearly a year, to be exact. In the year 2016, Godly Raemmaculate Jepselegend, vers queen and star of stage and screen and studio, lent her LGBTQ agenda-pushing vocals to a '3D…