#song: the loneliest time

[crjupdates]

carlyraejepsen: Tonight is the night!! The Loneliest Time rises with the moon at 12am, wherever you are 🌝🌚 Reviews are coming in and I’m feeling a litttttle (a lot?!) overwhelmed so all I can say right now is… thank you for giving my album the warmest possible welcome @/rollingstone @/thecut @/consequence @/theatlantic!! I can’t wait for you to hear it!

[lyricallymnded]

lyricallymnded’s end of year celebration! | tahlia’s favorite songs released in 2022

the loneliest time // carly rae jepsen feat. rufus wainwright

[high-quality-tiktoks]

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I dint know if this made any sense

[cryptidjeepers]

But you know what? I’m coming back for you, baby. I’m coming back for you

[spookberry]

random opinion of mine, but literally every song that has a main female artist that is either then covered by a man or heavily features a man tends to be bad. Or even sometimes a song by a man with a woman featured. Like you listen to it and go "wish there was a version without that guy in it"

on the Flip side every time a woman covers a song that was originally by a man it becomes my new favorite thing ever.

[fabdante]

2, 5, 28 for the music asks! also MCR in a car is dangerous cause their songs go SO HARD that me and my friend almost crashed listening to Mama once. I promise shes a good driver lol

oH NO!!! i'm glad you guys were good asdfghjkl i can relate though its just hard to not get distracted in the car when a good MCR song comes on I also could not be held responsible for what I might do when Mama starts playing

Thank you for the ask!!! (ask meme here!)

2.) A Song you Like with a Number in the Title

1957 by Milo Greene ! (This song makes me inconsolable about Sasha and August Borderlands)

5.) A Song That Needs to be Played LOUD

I will not list a Nirvana song I will not list a Nirvana song I will not list a Nirvana son-asdfghjk

Earth Death by Baths

I have been obsessed with this song lately and every time it comes on while I illegally am using my headphones at work I turn it up because I just like I gotta. I gotta.

28.) A Song by an Artist with a Voice that you Love

Predictable answer but: If You Must by Nirvana

But like to justify my very predictable pick, If You Must I think captures everything I love in particular about Kurt Cobains vocals and it's just a very underrated Nirvana song likely because I mean, it was never finished it's one of the numerous random tracks from With the Lights Out but like it just captures every random vocal thing he does that I love. Like the odd choices he makes the screaming the loud then soft the rawness to the droning the random moaning and shit like it like this songs almost hypnotic to me asdfghjk how much it captures the halmarks of what made Kurts voice in particular

Because I feel bad picking a very obvious answer for me asdfghjk my second pick is: Twin Sized Mattress by the Front Bottoms

I was on 8Tracks a lot in my youth ✨

[silly-breakfast]

Moving the furniture to make a dancefloor

Lorde - The Man with the Axe // Taylor Swift - Out of the Woods // Carly Rae Jepsen - Western Wind

[poptastrophe]

joshua tree ;; carly rae jepsen

[sojutrait]

another year another slay

[applejuiz]

So I’ve spent the past 21 hours listening to ‘Talking to Yourself’ by Carly Rae Jepsen and little else, and I just realize how much it parallels ‘I Bet You Think About Me’ by Taylor Swift, and imo is an infinitely better take on the concept for all the reasons CRJ is a superior artist. ‘I Bet You Think About Me’ is a song I dislike because of its pettiness and it’s presumption. Like it’s the kind of Taylor Swift song that makes people not like Taylor Swift because it’s so self-indulgent and superior. ‘I bet you’re thinking about me all the time. I bet everything reminds you of me.’ There’s even a line about how ‘I bet you know the last time things felt meaningful was when you were with me’ or something like that idk I’ve only listened to the song twice bc I have such a distaste for it. It is intentionally like that, it’s meant to be vindictive and self-aggrandizing, but ultimately for me, that attitude in a song always just belays a deeper insecurity. ‘I bet you think about me’ is an attitude of false superiority, a perspective of someone who is obviously still thinking about the other person, still betting about the other person, and needing to still feel like they’re handing the breakup better, constructing a certainty that the other person is doing worse, missing them more than she does. But Taylor swift doesn’t have the nuance to really tackle that complexity, especially not in the Red era where some of her songs are still very much about winning breakups and being the Right One in the end.

Meanwhile, Queen Carly takes the same idea, but simultaneously captures both the self-indulgence of vindictiveness and the insecurity, simply by reframing the idea as a question. ‘Are you thinking of me when you’re with somebody else?’ ‘Do you talk to me when you’re talking to yourself?’ She doesn’t know. She’s asking, and it’s a damning question for both parties. You might be thinking of her still, but she also wants to know. And then in the bridge there’s a double whammy of ‘are you thinking of me?’ ‘Does it kill you that you’re thinking of me?’ There’s a slight desperation in the first question, and then that pettiness in the second. Hell in the pre-chorus she says, ‘I’ll never let you be’, a phrase that captures both you not able to stop thinking about her, but also putting herself in the subject, as in I also can’t let go. She even described it as not a revenge song bc Carly songs are always deeper than one emotion and always have an element of insecurity and deep emotional self-honesty to them. The simplest answer is never enough, there’s always so much more complexity that ‘I’m winning this breakup’.

And it’s a fucking banger.

[spaceytingz]

are you thinking of me....

DOES IT KILL YOU THAT YOU’RE THINKING OF ME?

[crjupdates]

carlyraejepsen: I was kinda dream walking through this shoot day. King @/rufuswainwright to the left and Queen @/fenabarbitall to the right. A full disco on the moon. To explain the making of this video takes diagrams that point to stars aligning cause all the right people came together in just the right moment. @/brantleyg - I am in awe of you. You came through on your promise and made us fly! Thank you to my team for your talents and efforts and enthusiasm. The combination is breathtaking every time. Xoxox

[blossoms-and-possums]

james “you’re still the oxygen i breathe, i see your face when i close my eyes, it’s torturous” potter

[astronomeys]

Carly Rae Jepsen, So Nice Tour. Chicago, Aragon Ballroom, 5 Nov. 22. Go Find Yourself or Whatever - The Loneliest Time.

[jeanmoreaux]

Thank you so much for tagging me @alinastarkovz 💖

Rules: shuffle your ‘on repeat’ playlist and post the first 10 tracks, then list 10 songs you really like, each by a different artist. then tag 10 people to do the same thing

First 10 tracks on my ‘on repeat’ playlist, shuffled

western wind; carly rae jepsen talking to yourself; carly rae jepsen a world alone; lorde surrender my heart; carly rae jepsen willow; taylor swift shooting star; carly rae jepsen bejeweled; taylor swift dinner & diatribes; hozier you’ll miss me when i’m not around; grimes heaven in hiding; halsey

10 songs i really like, each by a different artist

joshua tree; carly rae jepsen love him i don’t; maisie peters glory and gore; lorde would that i; hozier maroon; taylor swift difficult; gracie abrams cosmic love; florence + the machine hallucinogenics; matt maeson the night we met; lord huron feat. phoebe bridgers sex; eden

Tagging: @brimay, @rosesau, @malinaa, @tolerateit, @ohwarnette & @buffonia + anyone else who wants to join in!

[michaelwitha]

i so desperately need spotify to add the option to create sections in playlists similar to adding a section on Pinterest boards.