In 2015, Carly Rae Jepsen pardoned the music world with Emotion , which was without exaggeration, the best pop album of the year.
Carly Rae Jepsen or the pop artist of the decade that we forget too quickly
Ignored by the most prestigious awards ceremonies (Grammy Awards especially), the album Emotion had rightly been ranked at the top of many year-end rankings of the most renowned magazines…Armed with the semi-hit "I Really Like You", Emotion is one of his coherent albums, skillfully produced and almost too good to be crowned with the expected success.
At the end of summer 2016, the most underrated Canadian of the decade had decided to release Emotion: Side B, as a thank you to the more than positive feedback from her inevitable fans, and quality pop lovers.
It is often a bad sign when an artist decides to surf on a success, here critical.
When the emotion is palpable!
However, this side B is almost perfect when compared to its "progenitor". In 8 titles, Carly Rae Jepsen manages to revive the same atmosphere to her audience.
Between pure pop titles calibrated for radio, non-pompous 80s influences on quite futile themes but cleverly sung, Carly Rae Jepsen confides to us her setbacks and sentimental disappointments. From "Store" to "Body Language", we do not stop and we push the replay button as if to pretend that the album contains 16 tracks.
If the cake struggles to sell and to talk, it is a regret as the passion is there, the critical feedback being as laudatory as for Emotion (the original).
We can only hope that Carly Rae Jepsen continues her momentum.
We do not wish him success as dazzling as Call Me Maybe, it would almost lose the essence of his art so addictive, for the most snooping of us, and too bad for the general public!
