Three humanities postgraduate students in India have parodied Carly Rae Jepsen’s all-time popular song “Call Me Maybe,” reworking the lyrics to mock the double standards and sexism engraved in Indian matrimonial ads, and ultimately, in marriages.
In today’s Tweet Beat, Carly Rae Jepsen keeps things literal, I hope Amber Riley doesn’t live in LA and I wonder what The Weeknd is looking for.
Carly Rae Jepsen’s “Boy Problems,” a song that is ostensibly about annoying your girlfriends with too much boy talk but is actually (according to me) a beautiful treatise on the frisson of gay self-discovery, almost didn’t make it onto CRJ’s album but immediately declared itself as a crowd favorite upon Emotion’s…
Let’s not beat around the bush here. Carly Rae Jepson recorded the theme song to Fuller House (which premieres Friday on Netflix), it’s an extended cover of the original, “Everywhere You Look,” and it’s the best fucking song of the year.
The momentous occasion that was Grease: Live! has come and gone, but for those of you who didn’t get to experience it Live!, there’s still the magic of YouTube, which was most certainly not available in the 1950s.
We’re getting closer and closer to the release of Fuller House, the reboot of the beloved ‘80s and ‘90s sitcom, Full House. With it comes another remake — “Everywhere You Look,” the show’s catchy theme song, is getting a makeover, and it will be sung by none other than Carly Rae Jepsen.
Despite what some people might say about it, I have a soft spot for Wham!’s “Last Christmas” and all covers that have followed it. It’s such a terrible Christmas song, mostly because it doesn’t make a ton of sense—the singer is upset because he/she was broken up with the day after Christmas, and this year they’d like…
The “live-musical-as-a-television-event” thing continues to happen, and now that American families have gobbled up The Sound of Music, Peter Pan, and The Wiz, FOX is bringing another classic to the small screen: Grease. And Carly Rae Jepsen’s just been cast as Frenchy.
In 2015, it is so hot to be Carly. Carly Fiorina is a Republican presidential candidate who actually knows how to talk; Carly Rae Jepsen is a human Bratz doll who kind of knows how to sing. Finally, a Tumblr has combined two powerful Carlys into one über-Carly, a Carly to rule them all.
In the starry-eyed, regressive wonderland that is Carly Rae Jepsen’s new album E • MO • TION, “Boy Problems”—which almost got tossed off the tracklist!—stands out for a couple of reasons. Written by Sia and Greg Kurstin and filtered through Carly Rae’s enthusiastically spellbound pastel vox, the track has a hustle, a…
After Carly Rae Jepsen’s enormous 2012 hit “Call Me Maybe,” it seemed like the Canadian pop star would be relegated to one-hit wonder territory. The album it spurred, Kiss, never produced a single as big, plus the ubiquity of “Maybe” is difficult to top and lightning that cheesy doesn’t strike twice. But what Jepsen…
Weekly-ish, a pre-approved, snap-judged music guide based on our very scientific, non-subjective Yes/No rating system. There’s really no debating this, come on stop.
Since you’re not doing anything productive right now, come let’s sing our hearts out to this new Carly Rae Jepsen song from her upcoming album E•MO•TION. It’s a chirpy jam about rushing to “hi-jack” someone in their moment of need and has a thump of a beat that feels its own urgency.
Carly Rae Jepsen’s “Run Away With Me” isn’t going to be this year’s song of the summer, but it’s reasonably enjoyable and fairly catchy (if, like me, you have listened to it several times in a row). The video for the song, however, is a different story. Shot with a shaky cam and featuring enough “is that a ghost?”…
Weekly-ish, a pre-approved, snap-judged music guide based on our very scientific, non-subjective Yes/No rating system. There’s really no debating this, come on stop.
At the time of this writing, Fetty Wap’s “Trap Queen” is holding strong as the second most popular song in the country, having been on the Billboard Hot 100 for the past 17 weeks straight. There is little doubt that once summer hits in full force and more radio stations add it to rotation, it will supplant Wiz…
When you think Carly Rae Jepsen, you think annoyingly catchy melodies and sugary lyrics that rely heavily on their face value. What you don’t think, or at least I didn’t, is “man, Carly Rae’s new song will sound so hard mashed up with Nine Inch Nails’ ‘Head Like a Hole.’” But you know what? I really, really like it!
Press play! What do you know, you're in an empty roller rink on disco night, and the whole thing's filling with dry-ice smoke that flashes pastel under the lights, and you're slow-dancing with yourself and it's incredibly important. Am I wrong? Do I care? Carly Rae, take me away.
And the world explodereded. Watch Bey and Rihanna now before they’re taken down. Cuz they’ll be taken down. Cuz they’re exclusively on Tidal. Now thinking “This is the new America” line from Rihanna’s new song “American Oxygen” very much about listening to music in the age of Tidal. Same with “I live so I can die…
I really, really, really, really, really wish this was the radio edit! Recycle Culture is Erik Moline's DIY project, whose aesthetic is summed up nicely in the title of a 2013 single: "Blank Babe Blissed Out in the House of Surreality." As it were, that phrase also sums up Carly Rae Jepsen's musical sweet spot (as…
