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Album Review: Carly Rae Jepsen - Emotion

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"There's a sense all this excess exists simply to hide her own vulnerability."

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Canadian singer Carly Rae Jepsen makes music that sounds like the sort Barbie would listen to as she's cruising down coastal highways in her pink convertible. However, there's a sense all this excess exists simply to hide her own vulnerability, as Jepsen has always separated herself from her contemporaries through her appeal to innocence. Beneath the bubblegum pop of I Really Like You and the blinding neon sheen of Run Away With Me is an implicit insecurity that the writers of this album playfully toy with. Thankfully this never becomes overbearing, as the album remains as escapist and carefree it's supposed to be.