album Carly Rae Jepsen - 'The Loveliest Time'

[Supervillain]

1 minute ago, madonnas said:

Catchy song but compared to the rest of the album, it’s reductive.  

I'll never get tired of Carly's basic pop choruses  

[madonnas]

Put it to rest 
Aeroplanes
Weekend love 
Psychedelic switch 
Kollage
Stadium love
Anything to be with you 
Shy boy 
So Right
After Last Night 
Shadow 
Come Over
Kamikaze
 

 

this is how I’d rank it from best to least good 

[SimpleKindofLife]

At this point she needs to drop yearly this sugary pop excellence is fueling my veins. Shy Boy in particular has CRACK in it

[theflying]

Kamikaze’s chorus is a let down — the verses are AMAZING but the chorus needed more surprise, something less “been there, done that”.

[Aimen]

15 hours ago, Rocket said:

We can all agree that Aeroplanes is the only dud on the album, yeah?

 

And weekend love

[Blue Jeans]

Can’t stop listening to Psychedelic switch. Such a perfect summer banger, and that bass line is orgasmic. Reminds me of Kylie 

[Kristen]

IT'S LIKE A PSYCHEDELIC SWITCH

 

 

DON'T WAKE ME 'CAUSE I'M LUCID DREAMING

 

 

ME-DI-TATING ON YOUR LIPS

 

 

'CAUSE BABY I'D BE SA-TIS-FIED FOR-EVER WITH A COUPLE YEARS OF THIS

 

 

[vinicius]

I think I love this better than The Loneliest Time. (Wish Anxious, her best song ever, was here)

 

I'm still processing the songs, but can someone explain what she did in "Aeroplanes"? It sounds like a lot of songs in one? It starts like "Western Wind", then it sounds like "Far Away" and then, in the end (02:30) there's a magical special epic plot twist moment that makes the song one of the best ones from the album? It's really weird, but in a great way?

[mystery]

Debuts with a 75 on Metacritic, three reviews so far are very positive but there is a quite mixed one from sputnikmusic that comes at her hard.

The Loveliest Time on Metacritic: 75

SPUTNIKMUSIC: Barbenheimer II: Carly Raephex Twin (Part Two)

She has announced that this is not a follow-up collection of B-sides, but a fully-fledged companion record. This is curious (read: outright unfortunate) because The Loveliest Time is the most B-sideular ‘album’ experience I’ve found in my paws so far this year: its consistency is gaseous, its stylistic hopscotch is even more erratic than that of its sister album, it is a product of the same sessions, and - most importantly - it contains a large chunk of the weakest Carly Rae Jepsen tracks to date. Oh no.

“Anything To Be With You”’s opening vocal hook is an instant dud that unfolds as a piteously diffuse reggae-pop test of patience, while “Aeroplanes”’ deadweight chorus and off-putting slurry of a muted steel pan-jam never so much as dream of (sorry) getting off the ground. Later, the closing pair rounds the record off with all the conviction of a wet sock: “Stadium Love”’s insufferably bland homage to too-starstruck-for-taste maximalism brings to mind every word that Taylor Swift forced us to swallow way back when she dropped 1989 (now there’s an album with great B-sides!), not least because it does its utmost to regurgitate the same hooks; closer “Weekend Love”’s flimsy arrangement and structural centre of gravity are so weak that its very existence is practically in jeopardy. B-side is too kind a label for these songs. They occupy a solid quarter of the album.

It’s hard (or rather naive) to pick holes in her concertedly wholesome slave-to-romance persona when it’s brought her such success as the pop star of choice for, among others, a broad cohort of very online men otherwise incapable of touching pop with a barge pole. It's testament both to the strength of her bangers and to her vocal charm that she's rendered however many reams' worth of obsequious POV date lyrics so frequently elating, and I am genuinely a huge admirer of how she's turned the veiled toxicity behind her naked lack of self-worth into a compelling source of pathos (sorry nerds, Max Landis was bang on the money here).

What an obnoxious reviewer.

Edited July 31, 2023 by mystery

[kharijthedog]

31 minutes ago, mystery said:

It’s hard (or rather naive) to pick holes in her concertedly wholesome slave-to-romance persona when it’s brought her such success as the pop star of choice for, among others, a broad cohort of very online men otherwise incapable of touching pop with a barge pole.

What a bizarre thing for the reviewer to say

Edited July 31, 2023 by kharijthedog

[Illuminati]

7 hours ago, madonnas said:

No that’s Kamikaze 

7 hours ago, madonnas said:

This album is everything.  It’s not gonna surpass the Kiss / Emotion peak of her career but it can tie with ESB.  Aeroplanes, PITR, and Weekend Love are transcendent 

These takes ma'am...

[madonnas]

4 minutes ago, Illuminati said:

These takes ma'am...

kiss is a pop bible ! If it weren’t for the flop JB collaboration it would be better than emotion 

[mystery]

3 minutes ago, madonnas said:

if it weren’t for the flop JB collaboration it would be better than emotion 

Now what is this...

[PrismaticOwen]

I really can't get into this 

 

the loneliest time wasn't my fav either but this just isn't clicking

 

let me give it one more stream

[HausofNick]

1 hour ago, mystery said:

SPUTNIKMUSIC: Barbenheimer II: Carly Raephex Twin (Part Two)

most importantly - it contains a large chunk of the weakest Carly Rae Jepsen tracks to date. Oh no.

so obnoxious and for literally no reason

[Ewan Chaos]

This album is insanely good, I can't believe it tbh. You can totally see why she considers it to be enough of a standalone to not just call it "The Loneliest Time Side B," but at the same time it does tie in with TLT incredibly well.

 

I need many listens to decide my favorites, but Psychedelic Switch is for sure my #1 favorite. I love that 00s house Kylie-like sound so much and it suits Carly a lot.

[Scandalous]

IT’S LIKE A SSS

IT’S LIKE A SSS

IT’S LIKE A SSS

IT’S LIKE A PSYCHEDELIC SAUSAGE!

Edited July 31, 2023 by Scandalous

[Harrys Hairflip]

Aeroplanes iso so jazzy one of my favs from her

[Draper.]

It’s great that she didn’t make this a Side B because this is way more solid than The Loneliest Time, it really doesn’t match its sound and it wasn’t her more successful album to pull the B Side thing from it.

 

This feels fresh, she found a way to expand her sound in new directions and still sound very Carly.

 

I just wish her visual concepts were stronger. The cover doesn’t match the sound, the warm colors don’t work with the content. It also doesn’t contrast Loneliest at all: doesn’t have text, doesn’t look like a painting, the tones used in both covers clash in an ugly way. I really don’t understand her choices sometimes.  

[HonourableVomit]

75 on metacritic and her lowest in 6 years is insane.   

[danielins]

i can't get over how perfect psychedelic switch is

 

if the world was just this would be the summer smash

[yourfaveisaflop]

Mother did it again 

[Rocket]

Stadium Love is hitting hard today.

 

So you better hurry up
Yeah, come and pick me up
 

[crossbonezolo]

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZGJb5byrN/

 

1.6M views  If Kollage goes viral just because it's just THAT good 

[JoeAg]

it’s a nice warm rainy night so i’m doing a nice nightwalk for my first listen of this