carly rae jepsen - emotion POLL

LA Hallucinations

one whole year with this beautiful miracle

voting "Gimme Love" for now cuz it's the song I most want to hear immediately

favourite colour

Let's Get Lost, When I Needed You or Favourite Colour.

Not voting "Let's Get Lost" hurts, but the album is a veritable treasure trove

could vote for nearly anything on here but went with Boy Problems

oh noooooo I can't decide between "Black Heart" and "When I Needed You"

settling for "when i needed you". heart of noise, in dreams at night

one whole year with this beautiful miracle

otm

For quite a while a friend of mine thought she was singing "you come to me in jeans at night". Like maybe this was a criticism: dude should at least swap to chinos in the evening.

all that

lol xp

I went with Your Type. Breaks my heart every time I listen to it. Other songs in close contention were Boy Problems (that second half of the chorus), LA Hallucinations (for black hole in golden cup line), Black Heart, and Favourite Colour. Ultimately, really hard to decide. There's not a dud in the bunch.

man, it was a year ago – the week before July 4 – that I blasted this thing in my car for the first time.

i haven't heard those last 2 tracks they're not on the spotify version. any good?

this is hard but went with When I Needed You

Really enjoyed the Song Exploder ep on that song.

This is a really tough choice. I am debating between RAWM, Gimme Love, Boy Problems, Let's Get Lost, Warm Blood and Favourite Colour.

Kinda surprised to see so much LA Hallucinations love. It's a decent little song, but it has always stuck out like a sore thumb to me. It just doesn't feel like the same woman singing the other songs lyrically to me. It sounds like a song that was written with Ke$ha in mind, or at least somebody more famous and whose schtick is more in line with debauchery.

wanted to go with Your Type or Boy Problems or Let's Get Lost, but damn if Run Away still doesn't get me the most jazzed.

title track

"Run Away With Me," which I'll almost certainly be counting among the 5 or so finest singles of the decade in a few years.

black heart all the way, love that song deeply

This is very tough. Probably going with the title track but could also be "Boy Problems" (among 4+ others)

Feels pretty lame but "Run Away With Me" really is my favorite. Probably "Let's Get Lost" and "Favorite Colour" after that.

Run Away With Me gets my vote but every song here is essential.

Let's Get Lost was my route into this, but Boy Problems has usurped it in recent months. Not that keen on the first few songs on this, but by that point it's straight sailing.

Gone with Let's Get Lost cos I don't think it'll do very well.

baby let's take the long. way. home

It's the 'oooh-oooh-oooh-oohh' refrain that makes that song.

it's a lot of things but yes!

voted your type

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

warm blood

'your type' is 2 real to my sad rejected ladyness but had to go 'la hallucinations' for the real spooky beeps and borps

W4RM 8L00D

ba-dum pa-dum pa-dum dum-dum-dum PSCHT

in other words, When I Needed You

voting the one that most sounds like Lisa Frank powdered sugar sifted through the grill of a ceiling speaker in a mall food court

in other words, When I Needed You

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

yeah i never make it to the end either

i thnk i had bailed on the bsides when i hit w/e that awful one was (store?) but jesus christ cry

Oh yeah, what a tune.

Anybody else going to the show at Roy Thomson Hall tomorrow? (I'm on a plane to YYZ right now.)

holy crap that was GREAT

no side b or "cut to the feeling" but man

jealous. It looked like a great time.

Anyway

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o97_jDomyqc

GREAT song, but the video is pretty annoying. The combing is excessive (we get it, it's supposed to be a handicap), and then all the weird product placement. Do they really need Mini, Freixenet and Lavazza to underwrite the cost of this?

"handicam"

I assumed this revive was for...other reasons but this is much nicer

I'm often handicapped with my combing.

I assumed this revive was for...other reasons but this is much nicer

― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Friday, September 15, 2017 8:14 AM (twelve minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i prefer ilx as an alternate universe where i could potentially never encounter these "other reasons"

I'm generally not super into her singles but this is p good, if not a million miles removed from the last album sonically

here’s the semi official upload

http://youtu.be/DJ6A3aFR5Is

and here's the music video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0ih3FriG1k

^^^ uh nsfw warning for that

what, really

dildos!

lol not available in canada :(

This song sets its sights on being just okay.

It's a nice single, but I'm surprised she's played it so safe. Feel like this would have fit perfectly on Side-B.

as far as first singles go i think this is much better than “i really like you,” it isn’t nearly as weighed down

otm

kinda curious to see if this ends up being a tight focused record or (given how prolific she's said to be in the studio) a huge stat-juking behemoth

way better video at the very least

would be ok if we got a ridiculous double album since all 26 songs we got from the emotion session were good to great

Big fan of “I Really Like You.” );

it's a good song that i enjoy don't get me wrong

Are the 3 or 4 posts upthread on "Cut to the Feeling" the sum total of the discussion that song received here??

this is nice, would order the lead singles as follows:

I Really Like You => Party for One => Cut to the Feeling

Cut To The Feeling was just a standalone single for a film track. i presume you mean call me maybe?

and xp: there's another, longer thread for carly but there wasn't a whole lot of conversation there about Cut To The Feeling either

No, "Cut the Feeling" -- it was huge on Twitter, I guess, haha (and a great song).

I consider it a lead single, that's how it was treated

good song, but a notch under the Emotion singles, imo. i'm hoping they're just getting her back in the public consciousness and the next one is the real banger.

Are the 3 or 4 posts upthread on "Cut to the Feeling" the sum total of the discussion that song received here??

Surely not. It came in #3 in last year's Tracks Poll.

Ah cool

This is the first song in a long time I can recall being improved considerably by being heard in conjunction with its video.

i had an emotionally traumatic experience at an ex's party last night so now "party for one" is the greatest song i've ever heard

i am definitely feeling this song

i feel like it's the perfect salve for emotional trauma involving exes. it's light and soothing.

it also makes me wish i was still djing at a gay club

watching a few faces light up after having their first drink and this song comes on

how the hell is "cut to the feeling" one of the most praised songs of her career

rmde

I don’t really like this song, but thematically it’s a nice variant on her thing where she makes songs about being right at the beginning of some great transcendent experience, full of anticipation. This time it’s not some budding romance but a withering one and she’s excited to reconnect with herself? I mean I know it’s about lol masturbation but that’s my takeaway.

my favorite part of this song is the "i'm not over you"/"i'm not over this" backing vocal

drum solo after "back on my beat" also

I appreciate that she actually says "makin' love to myself" rather than some rote euphemism

Love her music, but Carly's videos are almost always terrible and this one is no exception. Like, even ignoring the egregious product placement, it just seems like it was conceived by a high school drama class.

^this

she’s got some good videos! (“run away with me” and “your type” in particular)

I appreciate that she actually says "makin' love to myself" rather than some rote euphemism

― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Saturday, November 3, 2018 1:14 AM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

but this... is itself a euphemism?

anyway, this song is like 90% of the way to being great and I think I've figured out what the 10% is -- there are some unfortunate things happening with the vocal production on the verses. most apparent on "some-BODy's in your way"

How in god's name did "Cry" not make it onto the album proper?
(also, did we ever poll the B-sides collection of this album?)

Yeah "Cry" is the standout from Side B by far

I don't think I voted in this poll because I got on the CRJ train a little late but "Never Get to Hold You" is what I would vote for now. That song sounds like the warmest hug

...this album is almost ten years old, HOW did that happen, etc.

Anyway, a clutch of Defector writers celebrate:

https://defector.com/defector-music-club-really-really-really-really-really-really-likes-carly-rae-jepsen?giftLink=3e51941b6ff646b737bc9ecdd05b9071

Gosh. Actually in my mind it's older but yeah. Glorious record

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Troubadour Presents:
Carly Rae Jepsen
Emotion 10th Anniversary Celebration
Tuesday, Aug 19, 2025

I love living in Southern Cal

Played this in the car recently, and my kids' ears perked up. They've been listening to it on repeat and sporadically singing/vocalizing the opening sax part from "Run Away With Me".

I had a meeting on the phone and forgot about all of this. Yeah, already sold out, so bummed.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DQNbSKLEu-Vp

https://www.instagram.com/carlyraejepsen/p/DQmpWOfkobE/

She got married a month ago and now there's a Baby Rae Jepsen on the way.

eeeeeeeee!!!

looked up the guy and he used to be married to Nite Jewel. Really loved her last album, which i guess is a breakup record about him. funny. hope she makes more music..

Massive Gob Bluth energy from the groom in those wedding pictures...

Happy for her!