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NYLON: Carly Rae Jepsen is saving pop music
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Last summer, we argued Carly Rae Jepsen will save pop music. At the time, her new album, E•MO•TION, had just come out and everyone was talking about it. The LP—her third—triumphed over the single that made her famous (a little song called “Call Me Maybe”). It showed her naysayers what she was really made of, and that she is a brilliant talent with a brilliant knack for brilliant pop music. E•MO•TION is a bop, from the saxophone opening on “Run Away With Me” to the very end. And now, after a brief hiatus with Grease: Live, she’s touring it.
Jepsen brings the Gimmie Love tour to New York this coming Friday, March 25. From the Instagrams and tweets we’ve seen, it’s a bubblegum, ’80s tinged spectacle that’s more of a celebration than a show. E•MO•TION is an album worth celebrating and there’s no better way to do that than with the crowds of fans who know what quality pop music actually is. Jepsen knows this to be true. Read on for more.
How much do you actually write on the road?
It’s actually one of the places that I find is always a really prolific time for me. You don’t have the mundane house chores and obligations that you have if you’re just in one place, or distractions I think you would have if you’re in studio mode at home. It really does allow for this sort of freedom of creativity, because there’s not much else to focus on other than the song. I feel like that’s a really good place to be at if you’re going to try and make something creative.
Have you already started thinking about the next album?
Yes, I have. I mean, part of me is just really excited about this tour because I don’t think I’ve been able to properly celebrate E•MO•TION. We worked really long and hard on making it, and we did a couple baby tours, but because I made the decision to do Grease: Live, I took a hiatus for a couple months. This Gimmie Love tour feels like it’s been a long time coming and I love embracing the last three years of hard work and enjoying it. That doesn’t mean I’m not still thinking about future projects and what I want to write next. I’m constantly writing for that and curious about where I’ll be taken with that exploration.
How did you and Cardiknox meet?
They did a remix for me and we became friends through that. Since then, we’ve been fans of each other’s music. I feel like when you put on a tour, the best thing you can do is share other music that you love with your fan base. It’s really fun to get to share it with the people who come to the show.
What about their sound and their music excites you?
I think it’s a refreshing type of pop music. I think that because that’s always what I’m looking for: What is it that I love about pop music? When I’m doing my own pop music, I try to ask myself that question all the time. It’s hard to figure out what it is exactly that attracts me to a song, but I think their songs are really, really strong and I think that the way that they produce them is cool, different, and a little bit indie. I think it’s a combination that’s really cool right now.
What’s the most exciting thing that a fan has done for you?
When we were in Japan, somebody made a Twitter account or some sort of Facebook account—I don’t know what you’d call it—where they reached out to everyone coming to the show and said, “How about during ‘Gimme Love,’ we all raised these little flowers that I’ll make, and we’ll all raise them and do the pose that she did for the ‘I Really Like You’ on the cover?” They did it as a surprise to us, so as soon as we sang the chorus of “Gimme Love,” everyone in the audience—it was a ginormous, stadium size of people—held up these flowers to their faces and it blew my mind. I couldn’t believe how well organized it was and what a surprise it was to us. I was in tears over it. Happy ones, of course.
Source & Full Interview: NYLON |
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carly IS saving pop music. legend .icon. indie legend. pop titan. madonna's successor etc.
bring it on Queen
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