Emotion

I’m the one who put this on this list, so of course I think it’s a 5 star. And to be clear, I’m not trolling. I love this album with the utmost earnestness, as much as a 24 year old straight guy can give. It’s always helpful to contextualize an album when criticizing it, so I’ll say that you have to put yourself back in the shoes of someone in 2015. The album charts are dominated by the likes of Taylor swifts 1989 and Adele’s 25 and Kendrick Lamar’s TPAB. Not downer albums, but certainly not the most uplifting. Donald Trump wins his first presidential election. Things were not exactly looking amazing. Enter this little album from someone that was cast aside as a Canadian one hit wonder. A synth pop album that throws it back to the 80s right before it became popular to do so. It didn’t smash the charts, but it certainly redefined, at least to me at the age of 16/17 when I found the album, what a pop album could be and gave us a little life with the impeccable memes that came out of it, especially on the since deceased vine. This is not the perfect record by any means, it’s a touch long at 56 minutes and the wrong single was chosen as the lead (I really like you over the vastly superior run away with me). But I’ll be damned if it’s not near and dear to my heart. This record is absolutely amazing and I’ll always stand by that. If you like this, her next couple records after have all have the same consistent quality that I love.

Sometimes I think you guys are just trolling...

I love it when pop music hits just right! I don't love the slows (as usual), but the songs with a beat are totally fab!

I'm 50 years of age. I shouldn't be listening to this sort of shite and enjoying it!

Easy listening album with retro 1980s pop. Reminds me of early Cindy Lauper and Madonna music.

Rating: 10/10

I was really enjoying this until I got to when I needed you. Once that song ended, I stopped listening to the album and put the song on loop for about 2 days straight. Carly really deserved so much more than what she got. Call me maybe is still great but all of her music is just so good.

A Carly Rae Jepsen album without “Call Me Maybe”? Is that allowed? Turns out Carly knows her way around a lot more pop songs. At first I was thinking it was nice to have a sweet confection thrown in this list. But as the album progressed I was fully pulled into pop perfection! Really fantastic songs that gave me a real boost. Terrific addition to the list!

One of the best pop albums of the 21st century. Every song has hooks for days, the production has that 80s throwback charm while still sounding modern and fresh, it has THAT SAX RIFF Run Away With Me seems to have usurped I Really Like You as the big song now which is well deserved, though for me the highlight is the run from Making the Most of the Night to Let’s Get Lost - two incredibly catchy songs bookending Your Type, which has Jepsen’s most e.mo.tional performance on the whole album. It’s remarkably consistent all the way through though, even including all the deluxe and expanded editions - It’s just got everything you could possibly look for in a pop record. And the companion EP E.MO.TION Side B slaps as well

If you can listen to Run Away Without Me or I Really Like You without bursting into a big grin, you need therapy to get your joy back. Just brilliant pop.felt unfair I had to return to reality afterwards.

Very bland. Most of the songs sound the same. Nothing special about this one besides getting a lot of plays.

I totally forgot she had a career. Run Away With Me is a solid song. Why was I Really Like You a hit? Her stance as a narrator keeps shifting track to track. Like are you vulnerable, heartbroken, in love, over it? It makes it hard to connect with emotionally when there are so many different perspectives that don't have any kind of discernable regularity. its a necessary maturation album.

There's something about this music that feels so overproduced and hollow. As pop music from the last decade goes, it's not bad. It's probably on a higher end of the spectrum in that regard. But they've polished away every bit of emotion or humanity that would have made it interesting. It's not even particularly danceable. I guess what I'm trying to say is, I really really really really really really can't get into this. Fave Song: Emotion

Fantastic pop

When I submitted Chappell Roan's album, I was complaining that the list was overlooking pop albums. Pop music is important and popular for a reason and you should listen to it. Again, it's wild to me that someone like Lady Gaga isn't on the list while some shitty Britpop band from the 90s that no one has heard of did. Pop music is popular for a reason and something you should listen to before you die. We don't need every single pop star ever, but to really glance over the genre that is massive is stupid and short-sighted. As for this album, I wouldn't be rushing to Carly Rae Jepsen as a first choice, but I like it. It's album of this type I'd love to see / hear more of. I agree with the submitter that it is a tad long, but it's full of great songs. I'd say the second half is better than the first half. It's great pop music and shows that Carly Rae Jepsen is more than her one hit. My personal rating: 4/5 My rating relative to the list: 5/5 Should this have been included on the original list? Slight yes.

My friend whom I completed this project with submitted this album. He picked a good one.

Fun pop, although if anything should be hacked out of this for the sake of making a better, shorter album, it should be "All That" - yawn city on an album of fun, engaging pop.

Nice 4

It's pretty decent, a bit derivative, but very listenable. Not too sacchariney. Maybe a bit jaded from Call me maybe, but I'd listen to this again.

I love bubblegum pop!!!

It's okay, nothing against it, but not really my thing. A bit too bubblegum for me. 3 stars.

Pop, dance-pop, synth-pop, disco. Pop comercial. Ni fu ni fa.

Better than I expected, having only heard the singles, decent modern pop album.

Pure bright pop. I like it the dumber and more carefree it is, so tracks like "I Really Like You". Whenever it tries to be something "more" it falls a bit flat for me. Overall not bad!

Traditional modern popular music

Sure, it's purest strain mainstream engineered pop, down to the roster of Scandinavian dude names on the lyrics credits and song structure straight out of the KLF manual: it's top product for what it is. I can't deny a perfectly enjoyable listen channeling 14 year-old girl crush energy (though I don't see myself coming back for more), and at least it includes a bunch of actual instruments played by actual people.

“Your Type” has a definite Taylor Swift backing music. Obviously has talent but this album didn’t get under my skin

Shiny pop

Its not that there aren't some good pop songs here... its that it is bubble-gum content skewing to such a young girl focused on relationships while the singer is 30-years old. it just feels off. There are strong pop songs here... a bit dated, but fun. Run Away with Me, Boy Problems, Making the Most of the Night.

Girl

I really shouldn't like this, but it was actually pretty good.

It was fine.

A spun-sugar pop confection. While they sound fun and sweet enough, one recognizes that the basic problem might be that one never kissed anyone on a teenage summer night whilst listening to these precision-engineered songs. When she gets older, maybe she'll come to know that love doesn't require this level of energy or BPM. One would also be interested to hear her do a version of Chet Baker’s “Let’s Get Lost.” No need for this on list proper.

The lyrics are, on the whole, a confused mess. But if you just let it wash over you like sunshine it's an upbeat poppy winner of an album.

The thing I don't like about modern pop is that mostly it sounds too over produced. The same is for this album

Bland

A couple of gay guys I worked with in about 2015 thought this chick was "a total queen". What I mean by that is they didn't actually think she was great or anything; they were just being snarky in that way that gay guys often are, pretending her songs were "jams" because they danced to them when they were high on MDMA, but they were fully aware it was mindless pop music and it was at least 80% irony. Gay shtick, basically. I don't find that sort of shit funny, tbh - at least not after about 5min. This album isn't "fun". It's just annoying pop music, and obviously she's trying to recapture the hit of her one big song the whole time here. Also, the whole album was written by Swedish guys, as per usual for this sort of mindless pop. Congrats to Carly Rae (yeehaw!) on writing most of the lyrics though. I guess it takes real artistry to come up with this crap. Really had to dig out the thesaurus, I bet. 2/5 get the fuck outta here.

Ah cool, the weekly obligatory "overproduced modern pop album". This sure was 12 songs arranged in a particular way, alright. It had music, by god, it even had lyrics. What will they think of next?

Try ing move past the call me maybe fame Jensen had a much more traditional pop album here. It still has some catchy songs but nothing as viral as before. Which may be a good thing. However this album is what modern pop struggles with. Talented singers with an array of over produced melodies that make the album feel like it’s one big show. There’s nothing to make the album feel special. It’s not bad but it just falls flat and isn’t memorable. 4.5/10

I'd only heard Carly's singles and they were okay, so this is the first time I've listened to a whole album. I can't say I loved it, but I can't say it's bad either; she just has a good voice with a modern, decent pop feel. I think she needs more songs like her best singles and not so many per album, because the more similar songs are, the more repetitive they tend to be. She has potential, and I hope she continues to evolve.

who would put that as their best all time album. I guess everyone has their own music taste...

Approached it with an open mind. Just didn’t do it for me.

Target: 80s classic pop. Result: A bit of the time, kind of generic 2010s pop.

She didn't get better than I Just Met You... At first I thought this was going to be a really solid pop album but quickly lost interest as it went on and my attention wandered. Shame as she did have pop potential. I'm sure other people feel differently

one hit wonder tries to be more "serious" by sounding like every other artist of this period with heaps of autotune. Incredibly forgettable. 1.4

Wanted to give this a fair shot after being burnt out on 'Call Me Maybe' when it dropped, but this album is just more of the same in that department. The whole LP feels so lifeless and vapid – outside of some fun bass lines, the instrumentals sound like Ableton preset tracks and have no real character or strong melodic sense. Additionally, Jepsen's vocals come across as perfunctory, and at times feel almost computer-generated for how soulless they sound. Even if the album dared to touch subjects outside of A) love and B) boyfriend, CRJ's delivery makes it seem like she could care less about any of these subjects and is just reading off the script the studio songwriters gave her. It's all more product than performance, an exemplar of how modern pop is more commercial package than actual art – which this album is assuredly not

No thanks.

Bubblegum pop, with no pretence of being anything better. Not even good as far as pop goes, and should not be anywhere near consideration for a list like this. I really really really really really really dislike this

Taylor Swift chronicles, episode 256: Today, as 2015 comes to an end and snow falls from the grey skies looming above her new manor, Taylor checks the overall charts performance of Carly Rae Jepsen's *Emotion*. Commercial failure, at least as far as female pop singers' standards go. Taylor draws a heavy sigh of relief, and takes another sip of her champagne glass as she sits in front of the hearth. Looks like she will remain the top bitch at this game for quite some time. Capitalism is always nicer when you're at the top, isn't it? In truth, and in spite of the few paragraphs I will probably scribble down there, I don't have much to say about this LP that's truly original. But it's because the story behind it isn't original either. A one-hit wonder wants to become more than that an album later and ruins her chances somehow -- because her shtick is so glossy and manufactured that even a large part of her target audience raises an eyebrow listening to it for the first time. Conversely, a minority of fans more interested in surface effects and marketing ploys than in truly compelling music think they are now becoming "niche" and "indie" just because they like that record, which had failed to hit the charts like it was intended to do. And everyone else smirks. Gimme a f*cking break. Because let's face it, most of the chord patterns and vocal melodies in these immature pop songs are so flat, and the identity of Carly Rae Jepsen so indistinct that the writing was on the wall from the get-go. There are almost no hooks or slightly off-kilter elements to go beyond the two-dimensional features plaguing the songcraft, performance and production of this thing. To put it in a nutshell, most of *Emotion* is just instantly forgettable. Three highlights still manage to leave an imprint somehow : opener "Run Away With Me", admittedly catchy, "Making The Most Of The Night", harmonically more interesting than the rest, and "I Really Like You" -- more annoying than endearing for sure, but undoubtedly memorable. Plus a couple of cool funky basslines here and there, within songs that are cloned from one another. We're still leagues under Dua Lipa's *Future Nostalgia* here, mind you. And more importantly, those basslines can't possibly bring the personality this project direly needs on their own. Worse, the sugar rush is often so extreme in *Emotion* that it makes me want to puke right away. And there's not much to give a little bit of caloric substance to said rush either. Taylor Swift looks like a tastier offer next to Jepsen -- not saying she is *that* all the time, just that Jepsen's writing committee come up with even blander results than the ones routinely churning Swift's deep cuts. And Charli XCX and her team look like goddamn Renaissance geniuses compared to Jepsen. Give it to hyperpop : the "hypertext" thing is the thing that prevents pop from becoming too complacent these days. Even the most outrageously commercial one. Now will Sabrina Carpenter follow Carly Rae Jepsen's destiny? Pop music cycles are like capitalism after all. They often repeat the same mistakes, don't they? Guess I'll yawn as well when that same old story happens yet again. In the meantime, can we be a little serious for one second? Please? 1/5 for the purposes of this list of essential albums. 6/10 for more general purposes (5 + 1) Number of albums from the original list I find relevant enough to be mandatory listens: 465 Albums from the original list I *might* include in mine later on: 288 Albums from the original list I won't include in mine: 336 ---- Number of albums from the users list I find relevant enough to be mandatory listens: 14 Albums from the users list I *might* select for mine later on: 26 Albums from the users list I won't select for mine: 46 (including this one) ---- Émile ! J'ai répondu à ton message. Regarde sept reviews au dessus !