{"id":13562,"date":"2025-08-21T09:35:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T09:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/13562\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T09:35:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T09:35:10","slug":"carly-rae-jepsens-10th-anniversary-emotion-show-9-best-moments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/13562\/","title":{"rendered":"Carly Rae Jepsen’s 10th anniversary ‘Emotion’ show: 9 best moments"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Almost 10 years to the day after a show at the Troubadour<\/a> that marked the release of her album \u201cEmotion,\u201d Carly Rae Jepsen brought the 2015 LP back to the same West Hollywood club on Tuesday night for a sold-out one-off gig in which she played \u201cEmotion\u201d from beginning to end. The follow-up to Jepsen\u2019s un-follow-uppable 2012 smash \u201cCall Me Maybe,\u201d \u201cEmotion\u201d wasn\u2019t exactly the hit the singer and her team were hoping for. Yet over time, the album \u2014 which Jepsen made with a host of hip producers and songwriters including Rostam<\/a>, Ariel Rechtshaid and Blood Orange\u2019s Dev Hynes \u2014 became a cult favorite beloved for its squirmy \u201980s R&B grooves and its tone of unabashed yearning. \u201cWe are blown away,\u201d Jepsen, 39, said as the crowd loudly welcomed her and her band to the stage. Here are nine highlights from the show:<\/p>\n

1.<\/b> You knew the audience was in Jepsen\u2019s pocket when, even before she came out, fans cheered the sight of a stagehand gripping a saxophone \u2014 the instrument whose silky wail opens \u201cEmotion\u201d like a siren call for unrequited lovers.<\/p>\n

2.<\/b> One of Jepsen\u2019s most effective tricks as a pop sort-of-star is the modesty of her presentation, which lends a crucial believability to her many songs about feeling overwhelmed. Here, for instance, she used an electric fan \u2014 but a very small one \u2014 to blow her hair around just a little during \u201cI Really Like You.\u201d<\/p>\n

3.<\/b> After \u201cMaking the Most of the Night\u201d \u2014 which, according to the internet, she hadn\u2019t played live since 2018 \u2014 Jepsen talked about moving to Los Angeles from her native Canada when she was 26. \u201cI had brought a little suitcase, and I kept calling my parents and saying, \u2018Send more clothes!\u2019\u201d she said. \u201cFive years later, I was like, I think I live here now. I\u2019m very happy to say L.A. has become my home.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Carly <\/p>\n

Carly Rae Jepsen sang her 2015 album \u201cEmotion\u201d from beginning to end.<\/p>\n

(Jasmine Safaeian)<\/p>\n

4.<\/b> In 2015, Jepsen\u2019s celebrity guests at the Troubadour included Lorde and Tom Hanks, the latter of whom starred for some reason in the video for \u201cI Really Like You.\u201d This time, her mom and dad sat proudly in the balcony, shooting videos on their phones.<\/p>\n

5.<\/b> Can we give the bass player some love? Bobby Wooten III might have been Jepsen\u2019s secret weapon on Tuesday, not least in the stretch from \u201cGimmie Love\u201d to \u201cAll That\u201d to \u201cBoy Problems,\u201d where his chewy pop-funk licks gave the music real bite.<\/p>\n

6.<\/b> \u201cWhen I Needed You\u201d climaxed with a moving a cappella singalong that had virtually the entire crowd belting Jepsen\u2019s lines about discovering how far is too far to go to accommodate a selfish partner. (Say this for Jepsen\u2019s faithful: They\u2019ve got impeccable pitch.) The moment had big Robyn-fans-in-the-subway<\/a> energy.<\/p>\n

7.<\/b> Jepsen famously said at the time of \u201cEmotion\u2019s\u201d release that she\u2019d written something like 200 songs for the album. \u201cI wasn\u2019t sure what I wanted to do, so for me the only solution was to keep writing, and hopefully that would lead to something,\u201d she told me that year<\/a>. \u201cIt was a purpose, a hunger.\u201d In 2016, she dropped eight of her outtakes on an EP called \u201cEmotion: Side B,\u201d and here she revealed that she\u2019ll release half a dozen more \u2014 \u201cC-sides,\u201d she called them \u2014 on a 10th anniversary reissue of \u201cEmotion\u201d due in October. It\u2019s hard to think of another artist who\u2019s made such a deep vault of a single LP.<\/p>\n

8.<\/b> The strangest song Jepsen has ever written, according to Jepsen: \u201cStore,\u201d the improbably exuberant bop about grocery shopping that she sang at the Troubadour while two-stepping down an imaginary frozen foods aisle.<\/p>\n

9.<\/b> Tuesday\u2019s show ended with Jepsen\u2019s traditional closer, \u201cCut to the Feeling,\u201d yet another \u201cEmotion\u201d outtake that\u2019s taken on a second life as the subject of a durable internet joke about swords. (Say this for Jepsen\u2019s faithful: They have memes.) Before that, though, she inevitably reached back for \u201cCall Me Maybe,\u201d delivering the song while pulling daffy faces that made her look like the star of some forgotten \u201930s screwball comedy. \u201cBefore you came into my life, I missed you so bad,\u201d she sang \u2014 still an all-timer of a pop lyric.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Almost 10 years to the day after a show at the Troubadour that marked the release of her…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13563,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[264],"tags":[12709,12707,12708,18,12705,117,12713,12706,19,17,12704,2971,12711,337,12712,12368,1093,12710,10689,3257],"class_list":{"0":"post-13562","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-10th-anniversary","9":"tag-album","10":"tag-carly-rae-jepsen","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-emotion","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-faithful","15":"tag-good-moment","16":"tag-ie","17":"tag-ireland","18":"tag-jepsen","19":"tag-love","20":"tag-many-song","21":"tag-music","22":"tag-release","23":"tag-show","24":"tag-time","25":"tag-troubadour","26":"tag-tuesday","27":"tag-year"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13562","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=13562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}