(It is also the rare pop song to include the word "BuzzFeed.") But the album mostly feels like the conclusion of a team determined to create an unassailable pop product. "LA Hallucinations", her collaboration with members from little-known indie rock bands Zolas and Data Romance, stitches a bubblegum vocal to a no-frills electronic production. The economy of her writing is impressive, especially on songs like the shadowy "Warm Blood" or the booming closer "When I Needed You". TION fails to tell us who Jepsen is or wants to be.
It's unfair to deeply scrutinize lyrics on a pop record-the goal is to write smart, but skew broad-but E This may seem like a surface-level concern, but it's an important one, because E (She told the Guardian she "spent an entire week vaping" to sound "gritty" on the song "Your Type", yet she sounds no different on that track than on any of the others.) Ultimately, you can listen to Carly Rae Jepsen for days and still have no idea who she is.
Jepsen, on the other hand, hasn't captured the Internet's imagination in the same way. We have Drake for performative vulnerability, Taylor for performative generosity. This is why pop icons inspire endless memes: Rihanna for when we give no fucks, Beyoncé for when we're feeling imperial. The best pop stars distill attitudes and emotions into gestures so perfect they can take on a life of their own. TION- for example, *that this palette of '80s synth sounds and Madonna hat-tips will probably endure for eternity-we don't learn much about Jepsen.I can think of a few fans and gearheads who would pay good money to have Rechtshaid break down the sounds on this album, as he's done in the past.īut whatever lessons we learn from *E The synth and drum programming, handled by Ariel Rechtshaid, may be his best, building off the sound he developed for Haim's Days Are Gone. TION include Sia, Devonté Hynes, and Vampire Weekend's Rostam Batmanglij, all of whom contribute excellent work (Hynes, on the twinkling Prince-inspired ballad "All That", and Batmanglij, on the weird, warbling "Warm Blood").The hand-picked collaborators that do appear on E In the end, just 12 made the album, with six more filling out the deluxe edition. More than 200 tracks were workshopped in sessions with some of the pop world's most prestigious hired hands, including hitmakers Max Martin and Jack Antonoff, neither of whom made the final cut. TION is as solid and spotless a pop album as you're likely to hear this year, the result of several years working alongside a storied list of contributors.
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