Sure, there is an element of fun to these loaded pop songs, especially if you were once the type to sift through Taylor Swift's liner notes for strategically capitalized clues. The songs on Selena Gomez's Revival answered Bieber's catchy question - "Is it too late now to say sorry?" - before that single even came out, with her pointed lyrics about being "so sick of that same old love." Justin Bieber's album, Purpose, is not an album so much as the soundtrack to an apology tour that has lasted almost as long as the obnoxious behavior that preceded it. The star, not the hook, is what's stuck in your head.Įven if you go straight to the songs, the personal lives of these famouses intrude. If so, you might want negative-nothing to do with their music, at least for a little while. Maybe you're annoyed by Ariana Grande's doughnut-licking antics or weary of Beyoncé's art-directed Instagrams or bored of Miley bragging about how much weed she smokes. Their personas are familiar and, by extension, polarizing. It feels like they're everywhere because they are: documenting their every good hair day on social media, giving interviews with enough juicy quotes to flood your newsfeed for days, swinging by the Met Gala even when their long overdue new album isn't even out yet ( ahem, Rihanna and Lorde). The usual heavy-hitters - Justin Bieber, Demi Lovato, Miley Cyrus - are household names. She is a rare, remarkable thing: a pop star we know almost nothing about. Think: Who is Carly Rae Jepsen dating? Who broke her heart? Who's in her squad? Who does she hate? Do you know? Do you care? Nope and nope. Do you know what I mean?" Even when Carly's dark, she's cute as hell: In the opening lyrics of the title track, "Be tormented by me, babe," she sings "tormented" like she's blowing a kiss. There are no Alessia Cara outsider anthems to be found here, no Adele power ballads you'll cry to in your car (and hear everywhere you turn).īut what really makes Emotion refreshing isn't what it includes - it's what it leaves out. She's forward, flirty, and fun: "I didn't just come here to dance, if you know what I mean. It was the best pop album of the year.Įmotion has sass and a sense of humor from the very start: The sax that kicks off the first track, "Run Away With Me," is reminiscent of the sax from the Saved by the Bell outros, and Carly never loses that wink. (Keep in mind the album she rushed out to capitalize on "Call Me Maybe," Kiss, wasn't good either.) But then Emotion arrived, and what we got was a smart, sexy, synth-y, '80s wonderland. The first single off Carly Rae Jepsen's Emotion, "I Really Like You," was underwhelming, a possible early warning sign that her infectious debut "Call Me Maybe," the unimpeachable song of summer in 2012, was in fact the tune of a one-hit wonder.
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