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Emotion (stylized as E•MO•TION) is the third studio album by Canadian singer and songwriter Carly Rae Jepsen. It was released on June 24, 2015 in Japan and worldwide on August 21, 2015 through 604, School Boy, and Interscope Records. Looking to transition from the bubblegum pop-oriented nature of her second studio album, Kiss (2012), Jepsen found inspiration in 1980s music and alternative styles. She enlisted a team of mainstream and indie collaborators, including Sia, Mattman & Robin, Dev Hynes, Ariel Rechtshaid, Rostam Batmanglij, Greg Kurstin, and Peter Svensson of the Cardigans, culminating in a largely synth-pop-centric effort. Emotion received favorable reviews from contemporary music critics, who praised its pop escapism. The album underperformed worldwide, debuting at number sixteen on the Billboard 200 with 16,153 units. However, in Jepsen's home country, it became her third top ten, peaking at number eight in Canada with 2,600 copies. The album fared better in Japan, debuting at number eight with 12,189 physical copies sold and subsequently being certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of Japan (RIAJ) for shipments exceeding 100,000 copies. The album was preceded by the release of its lead single, "I Really Like You", which reached top five in several territories including the United Kingdom and Japan. It was followed by "Run Away with Me" and "Your Type". Jepsen embarked on the Gimmie Love Tour in support of the album in November 2015, with a second leg commencing in February 2016. In April 2016, she toured Canada in support of the album as the opening act for Hedley on their Hello World Tour. In lieu of commercial success, Emotion reinvigorated Jepsen's career as an "indie darling", garnering her a cult following. The album was shortlisted for the 2016 Polaris Music Prize.
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!
Fantastic pop
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!
Nice 4
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.
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
Girl
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.
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
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
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