Carly Rae Jepsen

Carly Rae Jepsen's newest album, The Loneliest Time, was written during the early days of the pandemic, when some things felt uncertain.

And to also take focus away from a song and the beauty and artwork of an album." "I wanted this album to feel like it had variety to it because I have variety in myself. "I felt like I was struck by lightning," she said of Call Me Maybe's success. She didn't turn down any opportunities, and didn't say "no" to anything. "I talked to other friends who had been on these apps; like everyone had a horror story. The singer, who was born and raised in Mission, B.C., was stuck in her Los Angeles home and, like many others, she picked up some self-professed "weird hobbies," like making ugly scarves.

Carly Rae Jepsen is no stranger to the ins and outs of dating, relationships, and love. As Canada's reigning pop princess, she's carved out a body of work ...

The song’s been a highlight of the singles released prior to the album, and remains a gem on the record as a whole. The bliss of listening to a CRJ record comes right in this sweet spot, as she opens up the space for cathartic ruminations on heartbreak and hope. The Loneliest Time ends up toggling between this effervescent disco-inspired pop and Laurel Canyon folk sensibilities, with neither shedding light on a new facet of the other. [Dedicated](https://www.avclub.com/5-new-releases-we-love-resilient-disco-pop-experiment-1834842749) and the subsequent Side B leaned into the rhythm of disco, whereas The Loneliest Time takes it and kicks it into campy pop overdrive, with all the grooving bass lines and dramatic, dance-spurring synth work the genre has to offer. The Loneliest Time does more than embrace the bounty of nature and space the state has to offer, but allows it to build the framework of the record, with songs like “Joshua Tree” and the lead single “ [Western Wind](https://www.avclub.com/carly-rae-jepsen-western-wind-single-1848890483),” both of which turn to the whimsy of Cali’s environment for inspired, breezy lyrics about blooming love and desire. In spite of The Loneliest Time’s tinge of cynicism when it comes to relationships, the title track (which serves as the album’s finale), ends everything on a high note as Jepsen runs to the arms of a former lover, looking to give things another try. It’s akin to some of her other syrupy pop songs, such as “ Ultimately, it’s what made her successful—this ability to put these twee thoughts to paper, allowing us to eventually indulge in the same sappy little feelings. The record explores what happens after the bubble of love has burst and you find yourself alone, yet still looking forward to the next fling on the iridescent horizon. Like feelings of amour and infatuation, everybody feels the pangs of loneliness at times, and Jepsen leans into this universality. Carly Rae Jepsen is no stranger to the ins and outs of dating, relationships, and love. Buried at the end of her most recent full-length project,

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It can be lonely at times, but as she articulates on the opener, her past experiences haven’t stopped her from opening her heart: “I wanna be brave enough for everything.” “Go Find Yourself or Whatever” is endearing in its empathy, opening with an acoustic guitar and building to include an electric guitar, mandolin and sitar. After describing a myriad of bad dating experiences and pleading with men to not view dating as hunting season, male vocals join in with tongue-in-cheek promises that get more preposterous as they go, from “I’m probably gonna never call you” to “I’m probably gonna harvest your organs.” It’s a sure-to-be camp classic from the Canadian pop icon.

Earlier this week, Carly Rae Jepsen joined presenter Zane Lowe live in-studio on Apple Music 1 to discuss her new album The Loneliest Time, which is out now ...

[“Beach House”](https://www.udiscovermusic.com/news/carly-rae-jepsen-beach-house-video%e2%80%a8/) and then “Go Find Yourself or Whatever” on the same album with the idea that it’s an old idea that a pop artist has to be one thing, the cute pop star. I mean, I love the chaos of the thing. Why can’t this album allow that exploration a little bit?” [Buy or stream The Loneliest Time](https://carlyraejepsen.lnk.to/TheLoneliestTime). I think that rebellion led me to fit songs like Am I allowed to do songs like that?’ And, I think that challenging that question and answering with an absolute “yeah, there are no rules” is really what this album’s about. During the interview.

Jepsen reflects on the emptiness of modern dating and existential woes on her latest album.

And if the person on the other side of the speakers isn’t in quite that same place, the melodies on many tracks beckon them to the dance floor. It’s also the most disco-adjacent bop on the album, with string parts and synths evocative of the most cinematic Bee Gees hits. “Shooting Star” tapes into the equally viral nature of horoscope culture, integrating Jepsen’s bold embrace of life as a Scorpio (IYKYK) and electro laser synths that also pop up in the equally danceable “So Nice.” And if you don’t get 1984 MTV vibes from the album’s lead track, “Surrender My Heart,” then you’ve got to break your new wave records out for a refresher. Instead, Jepsen comes as close as she’ll get to a sense of mourning with “Joshua Tree,” “Far Away,” and “Bends,” which sound like remembrances of people and places that are rendered not unpleasant and a little nostalgic thanks to the ’80s-inspired soundscapes she incorporates into most of the album. She started with the heartbreak-inspired [Dedication](https://uproxx.com/pop/carly-rae-jepsen-dedicated-b-sides-review/), and with her new album, The Loneliest Time, she dives into more existential loneliness inspired partly by the pandemic and partly by the emptiness of modern dating. So the title and its hints of loneliness are a reference to all she had to endure during the pandemic — the death of two family members, including her grandmother, and the general sense of isolation and solitariness that everyone experienced — come out more as a mood board around an idea than, say, the depths of despair.

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It can be lonely at times, but as she articulates on the opener, her past experiences haven’t stopped her from opening her heart: “I wanna be brave enough for everything.” “Go Find Yourself or Whatever” is endearing in its empathy, opening with an acoustic guitar and building to include an electric guitar, mandolin and sitar. After describing a myriad of bad dating experiences and pleading with men to not view dating as hunting season, male vocals join in with tongue-in-cheek promises that get more preposterous as they go, from “I’m probably gonna never call you” to “I’m probably gonna harvest your organs.” It’s a sure-to-be camp classic from the Canadian pop icon.

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“And I think it can be the most intimate feeling in a really special way.” And what better time to release a project centered around those emotions than in the peak of fall, as people prepare to cocoon for the winter? The Loneliest Time acts as a fitting extended metaphor for the isolation of the last two years, and the often-depressing feelings that come with solitude.

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It can be lonely at times, but as she articulates on the opener, her past experiences haven’t stopped her from opening her heart: “I wanna be brave enough for everything.” “Go Find Yourself or Whatever” is endearing in its empathy, opening with an acoustic guitar and building to include an electric guitar, mandolin and sitar. After describing a myriad of bad dating experiences and pleading with men to not view dating as hunting season, male vocals join in with tongue-in-cheek promises that get more preposterous as they go, from “I’m probably gonna never call you” to “I’m probably gonna harvest your organs.” It’s a sure-to-be camp classic from the Canadian pop icon.

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Jepsen oscillates between denial (“I used to be in love with you”) and confession (“But I still love you, I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I love you”) in a state of contradiction within a situation that seems destined to be her own eternal secret. Included in the animated film “Leap!” and not on any full-length release save the Japanese reissue of “Emotion: Side B,” “Cut to the Feeling” arguably epitomizes the entirety of the singer’s oeuvre. Sia, who co-wrote “Boy Problems,” makes a convincingly apathetic turn as the aforementioned best friend in the track’s intro, and the song unwinds into a zany, idiosyncratic dance-pop number that indicates Jepsen might be more upset with the idea of her relationships failing than the failure of the relationships themselves. If a special alchemy made it possible to bottle up the opening sax call of “Run Away With Me,” it would be the kind of drink best knocked back while riding shotgun down Pacific Coast Highway with the windows down. “Wonder, wonder how I do.” Unlike other revenge songs, “Emotion” contains no slashing of tires or “Carly Rae Jepsen can’t come to the phone”; it’s simply a wish, framed by persistent usage of the imperative, for her ex-lover to be so haunted by the idea of her that she grows “ten feet, ten feet tall” in their head. “Now That I Found You” is about the rush. Carly Rae Jepsen loves love, but her songs, which usually have a BPM that places them squarely in “disco” territory, are rarely as mellow as 2015’s “Favourite Colour,” which gives intimacy a Technicolor dreamcoat. Faces give way to façades (“Take my makeup off/ Show you my best disguise”), coming to a head at a bridge that ebbs and flows with a declaration of acute self-realization (“I’m the keeper of the beat/ And the fire under your feet”). There isn’t much about “Call Me Maybe” that hasn’t already been written, said or parodied, but the fact that it’s graduated from mid-2010s hit to karaoke staple attests to its staying power as a song that exists simply to do what pop songs do best: be fun. Ethan Farmer’s blistering bassline bolsters the song’s backbone, while Jepsen’s soprano arches upward into a falsetto and back down again in a chorus punctuated by her ad-libs (take a shot every time you hear “Hey!”). “This Love Isn’t Crazy,” among other tracks like “Higher” and “Fever” from 2016’s “Emotion Side B,” remain proof that Jepsen’s B-sides deserve as much as attention as those on her full-length albums. Canadian singer-songwriter Carly Rae Jepsen shot to fame with 2012’s “Call Me Maybe,” the impossible-to-avoid lead single from her second studio album, “Kiss.” The pop hit spent nine weeks at No.

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The views expressed here are that of the respective authors/ entities and do not represent the views of Economic Times (ET). And then she realised that, looking back on the song as she performed it live now, there are components of it that speak to her as a traveller as well. She said that she had previously been in love with the traveller. She enjoyed the turmoil of the situation. She was pleased with the writing. She said that a good hook had an inherent allure for her.

Carly Rae Jepsen, “The Loneliest Time” (Interscope Records) Dating in the 21st century might be a lonely time, but Carly Rae Jepsen has found a way to make ...

It can be lonely at times, but as she articulates on the opener, her past experiences haven’t stopped her from opening her heart: “I wanna be brave enough for everything.” “Go Find Yourself or Whatever” is endearing in its empathy, opening with an acoustic guitar and building to include an electric guitar, mandolin and sitar. After describing a myriad of bad dating experiences and pleading with men to not view dating as hunting season, male vocals join in with tongue-in-cheek promises that get more preposterous as they go, from “I’m probably gonna never call you” to “I’m probably gonna harvest your organs.” It’s a sure-to-be camp classic from the Canadian pop icon.