August 15, 201212 yr I really like the cover. Lol at her calling it her 'debut' though, as if the 1.5 albums you've already done never happened... So excited to hear the new material :)
August 16, 201212 yr Author Here is what is apparently the cover for the standard version: http://i50.tinypic.com/wlqhe.png
August 24, 201212 yr Author Here is the tracklisting! Only Call Me Maybe and Curiosity from the EP have made it to the album, and it is rumoured that it is a reworked version of Curiosity as it is 7 seconds longer than the original version! Standard 1. Tiny Little Bows 2. This Kiss 3. Call Me Maybe 4. Curiosity 5. Good Time (feat. Owl City) 6. More Than a Memory 7. Turn Me Up 8. Hurt So Good 9. Beautiful (feat. Justin Bieber) 10. Tonight I'm Getting Over You 11. Guitar String / Wedding Ring 12. Your Heart is a Muscle Deluxe 13. Drive 14. Wrong Feels So Right 15. Sweetie 16. I Know You Have a Girlfriend
August 24, 201212 yr That Justin duet is going to be amazing, I can sense it. ;) So glad Curiosity made it on, and a reworked version of it sounds exciting. I really can't wait for this album!
August 24, 201212 yr Some of those titles..eh (I'm looking at you "I Know You Have a Girlfriend"). Looking forward to 'Beautiful' though. I prefer the standard version cover too, it seems to work better overall with the blue background.
August 24, 201212 yr Curiousity is almost as good as Call Me Maybe for me, glad to see it made it on :wub: Some of the titles sound awful but excited for this, should be a perfect fun pure pop album!
August 24, 201212 yr So glad it's pretty much new songs, even though the EP was really good, this means we get even more new material :)
August 31, 201212 yr Author Popjustice has reviewed 5 of the songs from 'Kiss' and you can see what he says below: Hey, we’ve listened to some songs from the Carly Rae Jepsen album, and this is a précis FACT 1: ‘Call Me Maybe’ is a stone cold certified 100% 24-carat no-messing-around banger and if you don’t get that you might as well be EARLESS (or struggling with your second album). FACT 2: The above-mentioned ode to tentative telecommunication is one of those singles that comes along every year or so and takes on a bizarre life of its own. It’s a ‘Moves Like Jagger’, a ‘Bad Romance’, a ‘Rockstar’, a ‘Wannabe’. A song that is not only bigger than the act singing it, but somehow bigger than pop itself, its appeal resonating beyond any initial target audience. You know what we mean – it’s the sort of song you see members of the armed forces singing in YouTube videos, the sort of song Homer Simpson will briefly refer to in eight years’ time, the sort of song the newsreaders will do on Children In Need. It is a very big song indeed. Like most similar releases ‘Call Me Maybe’ also has the vague hint of a novelty hit; the scent of the potential one-hit wonder. “WHAT,” wails the planet, “WILL JEPPO COME UP WITH NEXT AND NO WE DON’T MEAN THE OWL CITY SONG OR THAT WEIRD EP RELEASE SHE PUT OUT IN CANADA, WE MEAN PROPER SOLO STUFF ON AN ACTUAL ALBUM?” FACT 3: We’ve had a listen to eight songs from the actual album. Three of them (‘Call Me Maybe’, ‘Curiosity’ and ‘Good Time’) are knocking around already so really we’re really dealing with five new songs here. But that’s good enough to get an idea of what’s happening. In brief: with ‘Kiss’, pop’s premier pretend teenager could have a pretty good album on her hands. Of the songs we’ve heard, ‘This Kiss’ is the best of the lot, opening with the deliciously carefree line “I went out last night, I’m going out tonight again” and going on to detail Jeppo’s quest to get off with someone even though both he and she are attached: “She’s a real sweet girl, and you know I’ve got a guy – details we both forgot to mention.” There’s a brilliant “I couldn’t I couldn’t lie” / “I shouldn’t I shouldn’t lie” bit in the middle eight and a chorus that goes “this kiss is something I can’t resist, your lips are unreliable”. The way CRJ sings the word ‘unreliable’ will do something special and naughty to your pop brain. ‘This Kiss’ reminds us that when we first wrote about ‘Call Me Maybe’ at the end of last year we noted that it was the sort of pop song they don’t really make in the UK these days. It’s not very cool, and it’s not trying to be. Though you could argue that dubstep gloomwobble breakdowns ceased to be cool about 18 months ago, in an era when even Taylor Swift is threatening one such moment on her new album, it’s refreshing to come across take-it-or-leave-it pop tunes like these Jeppo ones. Another song ‘Turn Me Up’ is an equally straightforward Jepsen anthem, which feels like a Dr Luke-style take on Kylie in ‘Love At First Sight’ mode and concerns Carly splitting up with someone on the phone then going out ‘on the razz’. The Max Martin co-written ‘Tonight I’m Getting Over You’ picks up where ‘Turn Me Up’ left off. It starts like a singer-songwritery post-Dawson’s Creek emo ‘effort’ from nine years ago but by the 45-second mark is starting to reveal its true colours, then at the 1:01 a huge LMFAOpop-style electrobanger rave alarm noise kicks the door down. On similarly familiar territory, ‘Guitar String Wedding Ring’ is basically ‘Call Me Maybe’ meets ‘California Girls’, opening with the excellent line “you were here, and then you left, and now there’s nobody, nobody” before Carly bangs on about being ”a bird in the water, a fish on the ground”. The breathtaking-but-not-necessarily-for-the-right-reasons chorus lyric is: “If you cut a piece of guitar string I would wear it like it’s a wedding ring. Wrapped around my finger – you know what I mean.” Sort of Carly. Sort of. ‘Guitar String Wedding Ring’ – as you could probably have guessed from the title – is pretty perfunctory, and the Justin Bieber duet ‘Beautiful’ is notable mainly for the presence of the pop scene’s most notorious fondue apologist. It’s a jaunty, mid-tempo campfire sort of affair with Carly and Justin taking the role of ex lovers, Carly going through all the “trying to forget you” business in the first verse, Justin taking the second verse (“it’s like you’re the other half of me, I feel incomplete”) and a rather familiar chorus lyric of ”what makes you so beautiful is you don’t know how beautiful you are to me”. This is not exactly the modern-day ‘Islands In The Stream’ we were hoping for. Obviously on top of these tunes we’ve got the rather enjoyable ‘Curiosity’ from that Canadian EP release as well as ‘Call Me Maybe’ and ‘Good Time’, which brings us to eight songs in total. We’re still to hear ‘Tiny Little Bows’, ‘More Than A Memory’, ‘Hurt So Good’ and ‘Your Heart Is A Muscle’ (which we’re desperately hoping contains the chorus lyric “and so is your penis, although more strictly speaking it’s organ tissue but the joke still stands”). On top of those songs from the official tracklisting there are another four songs to come from the deluxe edition, so it’s hard to know where the album will go, based on what we’ve heard. If we’ve now heard the eight best songs from ‘Kiss’ then the album may turn out to be something of a disappointment, but if the tunes we were sent had been selected at random or in an attempt to showcase the album’s diversity things could be just fine. SO WHAT ARE WE ACTUALLY SAYING? Well: » If the whole album’s like this: it’s a 6/10. » If the rest of the album contains another two to three corkers: it’s an 8/10. http://www.popjustice.com/briefing/hey-wev...a-precis/99645/ Sounds amazing! :wub:
September 1, 201212 yr Author Carly's posted an handwritten tracklist for 'Kiss' on her Facebook page! http://a4.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/523424_10151027761666048_274662187_n.jpg
September 1, 201212 yr Will 'Good Time' be launching this album or are we getting another single beforehand?! I hope we get another single ... it would work better for her, help create hype and let us get a feel of her as a solo artist a bit more I think. Imo, her career could go either being huge Britney Spears like popstar or just a flash in the pan success.
September 2, 201212 yr I think she could be the new Katy Perry if she gets it right. Everyone thought she would be a one hit wonder initially too.
September 2, 201212 yr Yeah she really has potential to be one of the biggest popstars in the world if she plays it right, which would be amazing, but she could just as easily fall back into obscurity. Everything is going so well right now though so I have faith, the album sounds great from what we've heard about it so far!
September 4, 201212 yr Author The previews for 'Kiss' are now up on US iTunes! You can also listen to them through this Digital Spy article: http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/music/news/a40...iss-listen.html I'm up to 'Good Time' so far and they all sound fantastic!! However, I do much prefer the original version of 'Curiosity' than this new dancier album version. But at least it's like another new song! :D
September 4, 201212 yr Author I've listened to all of the previews, and they sound fantastic! I can tell that this album is going to be the best of the year and one of my all-time favourites and I am so excited! My stand-outs from the previews are probably This Kiss, Tonight I'm Getting Over You and Guitar String / Wedding Ring - but really I could list them all! It's just so good! :wub:
September 4, 201212 yr This sounds like it could be genuinely v.good. I love this bitch for bringing back pure pop back and no dubstep electro shite.
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