{"id":129482,"date":"2025-10-18T04:39:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T04:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/129482\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T04:39:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T04:39:07","slug":"carly-rae-jepsen-emotion-10th-anniversary-edition-album-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/129482\/","title":{"rendered":"Carly Rae Jepsen: E\u2022mo\u2022tion (10th Anniversary Edition) Album Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the summer of 2015, Carly Rae Jepsen<\/a> was looking to the future: \u201cMy desire now,\u201d she told an interviewer<\/a>, \u201cis to see how far I can stretch pop.\u201d Her latest moves had evolved from the good-enough charm of Kiss\u2014the album that contained her unexpectedly planet-dominating hit \u201cCall Me Maybe\u201d\u2014into glossier, vintage-inspired territory: gated drums, squealing synths, a couple saxophone solos. \u201980s pop rehashed for the new millennium feels staid in its omnipresence today\u2014but remember when it actually felt like a bold new idea, when embracing that moment, in all its schmaltz and sentiment, could represent a genuinely surprising artistic turn<\/a>?<\/p>\n

The first step in claiming Jepsen\u2019s future was E\u2022mo\u2022tion<\/a>, a record of diamond-sharp songs\u2014now a decade old, re-released as a deluxe 10th anniversary edition. In countless<\/a> interviews<\/a>, she has rejected the notion that pop music\u2014hers or anyone else\u2019s\u2014ought to be considered a \u201cguilty pleasure,\u201d and E\u2022mo\u2022tion is, fittingly, a record of full-on pleasure: unselfconscious, effervescent, no irony to be found. These are songs about big feelings, matched by big-budget production, evincing a shameless devotion to pure pop: uptempo, tightly structured, stuffed with singable hooks and lyrics that don\u2019t exactly hold up perfectly under scrutiny yet nonetheless scan as immediately relatable. \u201cRun Away With Me\u201d is the aural equivalent of a confetti cannon, the sonic translation of the way a crush makes you feel invincible. \u201cBoy Problems\u201d is neon and buoyant with its groovy bassline, chorus of na na nas, and percussion stabs like the kind of text you send with 15 exclamation marks. The exceptions to the bubblegum bangers formula are equally rewarding: The brooding, breathy \u201cWarm Blood\u201d and the poised ballad \u201cAll That\u201d gently widen Jepsen\u2019s sound without becoming a distraction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the summer of 2015, Carly Rae Jepsen was looking to the future: \u201cMy desire now,\u201d she told…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129483,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[264],"tags":[12327,18,117,19,17,337,806],"class_list":{"0":"post-129482","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-albums","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-music","14":"tag-web"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}