Carly Rae Jepsen - The Loveliest Time / The Loneliest Time

[KYLE]

It's the worst out of an incredible bunch! Mainly it just doesn't fit with the album.

 

[Music Is Life & Death]

I love that they all sound different because I love albums like that ddd.
The video is fun too.


All That is one of her best songs.

 

[xOJakeXo]

It's the worst out of an incredible bunch! Mainly it just doesn't fit with the album.

All That absolutely fits! It's the 80s prom song, slow dance to break up the onslaught of pop from the previous tracks.

I'm not concerned about the album sounding all over the place. Carly is the throughline and all of these songs have shades of her past work. To my ears it's no different than the eclectic tracklist of Dedicated Side B at this point. I'm also hearing these next to Surrender Your Heart, which offers yet another shade of her/this album. It has the romantic desperation of something like Fever or Gimme Love.

 

[HippoSteaks]

Ok yea Talking To Yourself is a certified Carly smash and all I needed was one listen. Now she’s really back. That guitar solo was incredible and straight out of Michael Jackson’s bad album.

 

[believeagain]

Everyone calling this an Emotion Side B track is so right.

And it’s heavenly.

 

[wodny]

It's so been there, done that for her but as long as she gives us songs this good I am not gonna complain.

 

[Rose-Coloured Boy]

Oh this is massive.

 

[colouroffensive]

Oh I love this! It’s the type of stone cold bop Carly can release in her sleep, but I love it regardless!

 

[Joe Z]

 

[The Art Installation]

Oh yes! This is very good.

 

[chrisconfessed]

I detect an ear worm.

 

[2014]

This is impeccable! Reminds me of The One.

 

[Mikal]

I need more time with it. I like the production but it also feels a bit flat / lacking richness and those vocodery backing vocals on the verses are giving 2016.

I think I'm a touch concerned for this album.

 

[Ferk]

She just does this kind of slinky pop song so damn well. I’m already playing the shit out this.

 

[Jonathan27]

It's good! I don't typically expect the third pre-release to forge new ground but rather just build anticipation with the fanbase and this definitely accomplishes that: the melody on the "talking to yourself" is such a sweet spot. It does feel like it could slot on Emotion Side B easily but the ramped up guitars push it that little bit further.

 

[Andrew]

Talking To Yourself is lovely

 

[eatyourself]

This is really catchy and effective. I think it's so silly to be disappointed that she's releasing something she excels at - "reinventing" one's sound just for the sake of it usually leads to sub-par albums in my experience. I'd rather her churn out infectious melodies and hooks instead of cosplaying Solar Power, sorry!

 

[Mushroom]

‘Western Wind’ is her best track this side of EMOTION but the other two releases have lowered my expectations for the album pretty dramatically.

 

[huntypoo]

I love that her label was like "Okay Carlz, we'll release the album but only if you give us one cut to the feeling."

 

[colouroffensive]

Fuck this song just gets better with every listen. It does feel like something off of Dedicated B Side (which was great and perfection - only real ones know that) and I can't get enough of it.