Carly Rae Jepsen

Mr. XCX graciously curated a 2022 Pop Music Essentials Starter Pack for you. It contains five songs from the past year, hemmed by people at the “forefront of the pop music scene,” as Michael puts it. — By Dom If you don’t know Michael Limentato (AKA MikeyXCX), you should! Alongside Andrew Ambrose Lee and Sean Wilkinson, he co-hosts I’ve Been Meaning to Listen to That, a podcast featuring an assortment of guests and wholesome conversations about various albums. It’s the perfect podcast to listen to if you…

Please Don’t Stop The Music: A Review Of The Records That Sparked My October. Written by Victoria Chelsea Half of 2022 has passed, and yet again I’m back here writing again after a brief pause. Let’s say it’s great to be back! Although, pretty ironic considering I missed one of…

Carly Rae strikes again with a mix of disco, indie pop, and even some folk/country inspirations. — Many could have easily called out Carly as a one hit wonder with her 2012 hit “Call Me Maybe”, but Jepsen has consistently shown she’s got a prowess for making perfectly crafted pop albums since her meteoric 80s pop inspired Emotions. The Loneliest Time is yet another upbeat stellar number…

Every few years, a momentous occasion brings hipsters, shameless romantics, the gays, and a few other oddballs together to celebrate. That big event? The release of a new Carly Rae Jepsen album. If you have no idea what I’m talking about, that’s because most of this revelry happens online for…

The sun sets a few hours before usual, there is an extra layer of clothing on me, and I am slowly switching from an iced cup of coffee to a hot one. Summer was a bitter-sweet dream, but now it’s time for the cool autumn winds. With the fall of…

ONCE UPON a time, I was a teenager blasting “AM” and “The 1975” around the same time that Call Me Maybe and Speak Now were dominating the airwaves. History has a funny way of repeating itself. Seven years later, all four musicians have found new places in my playlists, returning…

Carly Rae Jepsen’s career post ‘Call Me Maybe’ has been a fascinating one to follow as a long-time fan of her work. The impossibly catchy break-out single catapulted her to stratospheric heights. Laden with more hooks than most artists can feature in their entire careers, the hit 2011 single holds…