Carly Rae Jepsen Thread
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The only thing I saw tonight I didn’t see Tuesday was one of her bandmates taking scissors to her dress so she could dance. Oh and she had the most magnificent butterfly platforms on.
Downside was the fans of the 9PM act were disrespectful as hell (talking, shoving, stuff that just doesn’t happen on this level at Riot Fest and as much as I complain about concerts in Milwaukee the benches prevent it at Riot Fest, too). I left annoyed, but Carly was great and I spent a silly amount on snacks for only being there from 5:30-8 or so.
EDIT: apparently this did make it onto Hulu but the mix that was streamed wasn’t great. I wasn’t too far back but not that close either. Don’t look for me.
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So did she play a IHG corporate office? I think they were a stage sponsor.
Must have been something like that. It looks like it’s in one of their hotels (bar on the left).
Kicked off my GTMW with Mikerphone’s Brew Me Maybe. Because of course I did.
The Loveliest Time dropped while I was on vacation so I wasn’t able to get a full good listen to it. I listened to it in full while I mowed my lawn after coming home from vacay. My initial thoughts are that there aren’t enough catchy tunes but the songs seem like they would be great to see her band play them live.
It needs a good few listens to land but that run from Shy Boy to So Right is as good as anything she’s done imo. I haven’t decided yet if it tops Dedicating Side B as my second fave album but it’s vey close. Kamikaze is pure peaking joy.
Damn. 32 song set in LA last night.
www.setlist.fm
Carly Rae Jepsen Setlist at The Bellwether, Los Angeles
Get the Carly Rae Jepsen Setlist of the concert at The Bellwether, Los Angeles, CA, USA on August 13, 2023 from the Anything To Be With You Tour and other Carly Rae Jepsen Setlists for free on setlist.fm!
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Second encore of audience requests is very interesting.Damn. 32 song set in LA last night.
Carly Rae Jepsen Setlist at The Bellwether, Los Angeles
Get the Carly Rae Jepsen Setlist of the concert at The Bellwether, Los Angeles, CA, USA on August 13, 2023 from the Anything To Be With You Tour and other Carly Rae Jepsen Setlists for free on setlist.fm!
Probably paywalled but quite a good article.
www.nytimes.com
Opens with -
‘On certain corners of the internet, “The Loveliest Time,” the Canadian singer Carly Rae Jepsen’s seventh album, could be confused for the biggest album of the year.’
What Happens When a Pop Star Isn’t That Popular? (Published 2023)
Pop’s middle class enjoys loyal online fan bases. For these artists, pop stardom isn’t a commercial category, but a sound, an aesthetic and an attitude.
Opens with -
‘On certain corners of the internet, “The Loveliest Time,” the Canadian singer Carly Rae Jepsen’s seventh album, could be confused for the biggest album of the year.’
So if it's not popular why do we call it pop?Probably paywalled but quite a good article.
What Happens When a Pop Star Isn’t That Popular? (Published 2023)
Pop’s middle class enjoys loyal online fan bases. For these artists, pop stardom isn’t a commercial category, but a sound, an aesthetic and an attitude.
Opens with -
‘On certain corners of the internet, “The Loveliest Time,” the Canadian singer Carly Rae Jepsen’s seventh album, could be confused for the biggest album of the year.’
I love two and like several of the artists in that article but if there were Twitter in 1990 there would've been a "middle class of pop" then too, but back then they were just bands.
Really I'd say the article's assertion that the charts aren't filled with pop is wrong. Both country artists it mentions are pop country. Travis Scott is hip hop I don't love precisely because I don't love his style of pop rap, and Rema is only not pop if you don't consider Nigerian music pop, which is just the New York Times showing its ass. (Rema is awesome btw.)
Anyway I love CRJ (keeping this on track for this thread) but if something's not popular anymore it's not pop. It might just be good fucking music.
I think the point is more that major label pop acts can now maintain a career without hitting significant sales numbers. It wasn’t that long ago that one underperforming record meant being sent to that farm upstate. La Roux being a good example of that. Two big singles and an album that sold well. 2nd album bombed despite being musically great and she got dropped. The article could have done a better job of explaining how the economics of it works now.
Been that way since the big split, hasn’t it?
