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Carly Rae Jepsen: music not the bling
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“Even I was sick of hearing myself on the radio. It was just too big at that point,” Jepsen tells Radio.com. “So, I said, ‘Let’s just go out and be Cinderella for awhile.’”
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Because of the unexpected success of “Call Me Maybe,” Jepsen only had two months to write and record Kiss. This time around she gave herself two years. “I just kind of took some time to take some time with it,” she says. “I’d rather come back with quality not quantity. I didn’t want to push new songs out just to push them out.”
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To make things a little easier, Jepsen headed into the making of this album, which is set to drop later this year, with a vision of becoming Cyndi Lauper.
Jepsen had opened for Lauper at Japan’s annual Supersonic Festival in 2013 and remembers a brutally hot day in Osaka where people in the audience were fainting, but Lauper powered through.
“She had an oxygen tank and someone holding an umbrella and putting 70 cold cloths on her and she was a rock star,” Jepsen explains. “These melodies, her voice, the way it cut through all of the pop of today in my head, I was like, ‘I need to latch onto this, there’s something here that needs to come back in a big way.’ Just seeing how these songs stood the test of time….I would release ‘Girls Just Want To Have Fun’ today! I don’t even think I’d change the production.”
In that moment Jepsen knew she wanted to “make an ’80s record,” which in the scheme of things isn’t that remarkable since everyone at this point has made or is making their ’80s album. But, Jepsen says her album isn’t very specific to that decade, it’s specific to her.
“I want to make, music that does stand the test of time,” she says. “I’m not making a purely ‘80s album, I’m making something new with it.”
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Full: http://radio.com/2015/04/03/carly-ra...per-new-album/ 
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