Carly Rae Jepsen Is Getting Weirder—And It’s Brilliant
The singer gets campier and more creative on her fourth album.
by Spencer Kornhaber
May 17, 2019
3 minutes
Update your glossary: Pop music no longer means “music that’s popular.” Clubby thump, breathy wails, mathematically engineered hooks, rhyming fire and desire and higher—the bundle may be going the way of big-band or nu metal, from central to niche. The latest sign of the shift is that Taylor Swift’s animatronic new single failed to dethrone a country-rap novelty from No. 1. Before that, The New York the end of a “one-size-fits-all” solution for hits, and a pan with, “Pop is dead; here is its corpse; here is Diplo attempting to make the corpse dance.”
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