Around three years after stealing the spotlight with her breakout single "Call Me Maybe" and then releasing its parent album "Kiss", Carly Rae Jepsen is coming back with "E.MO.TION". The new LP has been available everywhere in Japan since June, but it is finally arriving in the U.S. on August 21.
"E.MO.TION", marking Jepsen's third studio installment, is led by the single "I Really Like You" which is arguably the most straightforward pop tune on the record. The upbeat and highly-danceable track was released back in March and peaked at No. 39 on Billboard Hot 100.
It failed to match the success of "Call Me Maybe", which reached No. 1 on the chart. However, scoring another high-charting single is never Jepsen's main goal with her upcoming album.
" 'Call Me Maybe' was such a gift, but I don't need that to happen again," she said in a new interview with Billboard. "I wanted to be brave and [record] music that was really me rather than just putting out what I thought would sell. I would've regretted more not doing what I did - making a passion project come to life."
Her manager Scooter Braun agreed. He explained, "We had the biggest-selling single in the entire world last time, and it didn't drive the album as much as it should have. So this [time it's] about the album, and how good it is - that's the most important thing in the world."
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For Carly Rae Jepsen, it was endless lucky little door openings. She was born November 20, 1985 in Mission, British Columbia. She attended Canadian College of Performing Arts in Victoria, BC when one of her teachers encouraged her to audition for Canadian Idol. "On Season 5, I ended up being ushered by my high school drama teacher to go to the audition. It was one of those things that I didn't ever expect to be the thing that worked, but it really was the first level of exposure that I ever had," she said in an interview. » more