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[crjupdates]

Carly Rae Jepsen Dances Her Way Through Heartbreak on 'The Loneliest Time'

The latest album from the Canadian pop goddess delivers high-gloss pop with serious emotional punch

Rolling Stone • Rob Sheffield • October 20, 2022 • Photo: Meredith Jenks

Carly Rae Jepsen is one of the most exquisite joys of being a pop fan over the past decade. The Canadian pop goddess is one of our most underrated treasures—ten years after the world fell in love with this girl in “Call Me Maybe,” she still hasn’t made a single weak record or failed move. The Loneliest Time is her most emotionally adventurous music yet—high-gloss post-bubblegum synth-pop that packs a serious punch even at its fizziest. Carly Rae just keeps dancing her way through the heartbreak, a totally relatable adult romantic with too many feelings but zero illusions.

The Loneliest Time has the shiny electro-perk sheen of her 2015 classic Emotion, but more of the melancholy of 2019’s Dedicated. By now, she’s over every brand of bullshit, with hilariously blasé song titles like “Go Find Yourself or Whatever” and “No Thinking Over the Weekend.” These are the songs of a woman who’s been through some drama, but refuses to give up on the brighter days and hotter nights she deserves.

Jepsen had a miserable time during the pandemic, and she’s not the type of celebrity to lie about that. She lost her beloved grandmother, the woman who first taught her the joys of wearing feather boas; travel restrictions meant she couldn’t travel to grieve with her family. So even the most delightfully frivolous pop kicks here feel powerfully cathartic.

“Beach House” is a deliciously nasty tour of serial monogamy in the era of dating-app addiction. She scrolls from one worthless boy to another: the one whose mom fixed the mood for their date, the one who begs to borrow money, the one who wants to harvest her organs. She trips from Boy Number One to “Boy Number I Can’t Even Count Anymore.” 

She goes looking for romance out west, in the mellow California dreaming of “Joshua Tree” and “Western Wind.” She also hits the clubs, looking for emotional rescue in the dance-floor lust of “Bad Thing Twice.” The peak moment: “Shooting Star,” a Chic-style roller-disco groove where she chirps, “I might sleep with you tonight… Just because I still believe in my New York City!” It climaxes in her vocoder confessions at the end, where she blows all her fears away, bubbling over with excitement as she chants, “Do you wanna? Do you wanna?”

She duets with Rufus Wainwright in “The Loneliest Time,” where she sings about feeling like she’s in a Shakespeare tragedy. She also gets hung up on a fickle lover in “Go Find Yourself or Whatever,” over moody sitar-style guitar from collaborator Rostam Batmanglij. But for all the broken romances on The Loneliest Time, it’s an uplifting experience. Carly Rae Jepsen might have endured a couple too many sad girl summers lately. But she’s determined to throw herself a hell of a hot girl autumn.

#carly rae jepsen #crj #carlyraejepsen #the loneliest time #the rolling stone #rob sheffield #category: review #category: feature #album: the loneliest time #writer: rob sheffield #source: rolling stone #photographer: meredith jenks #10/20/22 #october 2022 #2022 #🍐

[jackleopard]

ROB SHEFFIELD TAYLOR BOOK??!?!!?!?!?!?!

#i love rob sheffield #i mostly read his stuff on the beatles but I know swifties tend to like/feel like he is one of the good writers in relation to taylor so !! #rob sheffield #heartbreak is the national anthem

[waugh-bao]

#this is funnier than it should be #but Rob Sheffield is a great writer #rolling stone magazine #the rolling stones #keith richards #old married band #rob sheffield #meme

[philcollinsenjoyer]

it's sort of the funniest thing in the world when beatles writers try to claim the most random stuff they did as feminist like when rob sheffield wrote his little bit in dreaming the beatles about how it had never been seen before that Paul & john wrote and played music with their wives after the breakup like it was out of any sort of feminist impulse and not because [GUNSHOT]

#the only feminist stuff any of the beatles did was die #beatles

[muzaktomyears]

I know there's a lot of answers out there for this question, but personally like what do you think are the best beatle books to read? Like what's the best for you?

hello anon! I'm hyperfixated so I'll read pretty much anything on them tbh. I do like to read the more anecdotal stuff because I love gossip lol - and some of them can be so revealing (both of the Beatles themselves and the authors). But I'll read and have enjoyed lots of stuff: the big biogs, memoirs, fan accounts, academic studies, that novel by Paul's ex publicist.

anyway, here's the list of Beatles books I've read all the way through and what rating out of 5 I'd give them. The books I've rated highest have generally been the big biographies just because I think they tend to say more and tell a fuller story, since obvs that's their purpose, so they're a more satisfying read. My ratings are based on a random combo of what they can tell us about the Beatles, how interesting I find them historiographically/as Beatles reception, and how much I enjoyed reading them.

★★★★★

One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time (Craig Brown)

The Beatles: The Authorised Biography (Hunter Davies)

Shout!: The True Story of the Beatles (Philip Norman)

Love Me Do!: The Beatles' Progress (Michael Braun)

Can't Buy Me Love: The Beatles, Britain, and America (Jonathan Gould)

The Man Who Gave the Beatles Away: The Amazing True Story of the Beatles' Early Years (Allan Williams & William Marshall)

★★★★☆

The Love you Make: An Insider's Story of the Beatles (Peter Brown & Steven Gaines)

Backbeat: Stuart Sutcliffe - The Lost Beatle (Alan Clayson & Pauline Sutcliffe)

The Gospel According to the Beatles (Steve Turner)

Lennon vs. McCartney: The Beatles, Inter-band Relationships and the Hidden Messages to Each Other in Their Song Lyrics (Adam Thomas)

Beatle! The Pete Best Story (Pete Best & Patrick Doncaster)

Dreaming the Beatles: The Love Story of One Band and the Whole World (Rob Sheffield)

A Cellarful of Noise (Brian Epstein)

Waiting for the Beatles: An Apple Scruff's Story (Carol Bedford)

John (Cynthia Lennon)

John Lennon: In My Life (Pete Shotton & Nicholas Schaffner)

Summer of Love: The Making of Sgt. Pepper (George Martin with William Pearson)

★★★☆☆

John, Paul & Me Before the Beatles: The True Story of the Very Early Days (Len Garry)

The Beatles and Me on Tour (Ivor Davis)

A Twist of Lennon (Cynthia Lennon)

At the Apple's Core: The Beatles from the Inside (Denis O'Dell with Bob Neaverson)

The Guitar's All Right as a Hobby, John (Kathy Burns)

With the Beatles (Alistair Taylor)

The Day John Met Paul: An Hour-By-Hour Account of How the Beatles Began (Jim O'Donnell)

The Beatles: I Was There (Richard Houghton)

All Our Loving: A Beatle Fan's Memoir (Carolyn Lee Mitchell & Michael Munn)

Rock Bottom (Geoff Baker)

Once There Was a Way: What if the Beatles Stayed Together? (Bryce Zabel)

Like Some Forgotten Dream: What if the Beatles Hadn't Split Up? (Daniel Rachel)

Dylan, Lennon, Marx and God (Jon Stewart)

Paul is Undead: The British Zombie Invasion (Alan Goldsher)

★★☆☆☆

Paperback Writer (Mark Shipper)

#asks #books

[zot3-flopped]

🤣 She only received good reviews on Day 1. After that, the backlash started.

And even those Day 1 reviews are being mocked by that Bloomberg reviewer (who is a swiftie, btw) because they came out right away. Bloomberg writer says it felt like they had the draft ready and just hit send when the album dropped. Writer said it felt like they didn't even listen to the songs. And I thought... 🤣😂🤣😂 we have come to this. Payola, payola, payola. Lol

Music critics at the big publications are sent advance review copies a few days before the album is released, so it's not unusual to have the review already written.

Rob Sheffield (who gave the only 5* review) wouldn't have been able to write in so much detail about the songs if he hadn't heard them. Taylor has given Rolling Stone a big interview before and they probably live in hope of another one, which won't happen if the magazine criticises her.

I have friends who work in journalism, and I don't agree that the UK/US critics are regularly accepting financial bribes. There are very strict rules against that and if you're found out you get struck off and can never work in a professional capacity again.

#anti taylor swift #taylor swift

[rodeoromeo]

Did you read Rob Sheffield's piece for Living in the Material World's 50th anniversary? I didn't like it, lol. I think it's a mistake for Beatles writers who don't get George to write about him.

I HAVE NOT read it yet!!! But I’m going to check it out immediately. I so agree- so many people who are “Beatle experts” really don’t know what they’re talking about with George and especially his solo career….

I’ll come back with my thoughts!

#george harrison #the beatles #op #b talks

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[seasurfacefullofclouds1]

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Coming from a larrie well not much anymore.. i’d loved all those moments that are listed in that ask when i was still thinking that H was madly in love with louis.. but now after seeing his pattern, they were just his or his team’s PR strategy.. he has always used larry as main base for promotion for the first 2 albums but now that he’s gotten big enough that he can survive without larries he did not cater much for larrie in his third album.. larries hate taylor swift and think that she uses her 3month relationship with Harry still for promo, but they brush it off when harry uses taylor swift for his promo.. from being asked about her in his every damn album interview atleast once, making people believe two ghosts is about her, tweeting ‘i don’t know about you, but am feeling 22’ from her song, using style song for promoting pleasing product and deleting immediately to make it look like a mistake or whatever.. for him everything is for his promo.. i would like to wish atleast there are handful of times when harry actually thought well about louis because i think that they were atleast together at some point in time.. him singing hopelessly devoted to you felt like a mockery.. he could’ve chosen any damn song but no.. he won’t let louis have anything, everything for his promo for whatever it is he wanna promote, be it nailpolish, shirt, song, album..

I think Harry Styles in 2024 has more positive feelings toward James Corden and Rob Stringer and his family than toward Louis or any of the 1D guys.

Not to read too much into it, but remember the Rob Sheffield anecdote about Fleetwood Mac at the end of this article?

Fleetwood Mac was a band that Irving Azoff managed through ups and downs for years. The final break came right after the MusiCares performance in 2018, the one for which they dragged Harry Styles on stage.

Lindsey Buckingham, Stevie Nicks’ ex and the writer of many classic FM tunes, was fired and basically ostracized from a band he had been in for 40+ years. Irving Azoff and Stevie Nicks basically treated him as though he were dead to them. Later, Lindsey had a heart attack, and during surgery, his vocal cord was paralyzed. Eventually he sued Fleetwood Mac and Irving Azoff, and the case was settled out of court.

So it’s pretty interesting for Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone journalist, big time Harrie, and a member of the Harry Styles inner circle, to be telling a Fleetwood Mac story for an article about Harry and One Direction.

Moral of the story is that the Azoffs taught young Harry Styles there is no friendship so dear that it is above a business dispute, because your career and your star power always come first.

People come and go— cut them off like a gangrenous limb if they get in your way, 40 years or no 40 years!

[the1975attheirverybest]

Started out as a Taylor fan/ fan of her music (agree with your take on her as a public person) and only really discovered the band in May — and I feel really grossed out and disappointed by the way she/ her team handled the whole situation — incl. the collab that was seemingly scrapped and the launch of her new relationship. It almost seems like her publicist fucked everything up on purpose and is now endorsing this weird (PR??) spectacle/ pettiness because of some personal agenda… I was really upset when I saw that statement about Taylor enjoying this new relationship because it’s been "so easy" (when it was her own fans who made things so hard for her and Matty!!) I also agree that he/ his camp/ the band handled everything beyond gracefully— which makes me like and respect them even more.

All of this had made me really dislike Taylor/ re-confirm my opinions of her as a public figure and I don’t want to listen to her music at the moment. It’s a bit sad but it’s what it is now.

On the flip side I found my new favorite artist/ band (for life) and a really nice/ cool new fandom 🖤🖤🖤

(hope my rant was okay/ didn’t go any of your boundaries. I know it’s a sore topic..)

This is 1000000% how I feel. You took the words right out of my mouth.

I think I’ve said this before, but honestly, seeing how Matty handled this summer has only made me love him more. I mean- the media barrage just kept coming. Every time I thought it couldn’t possibly get worse? It kept getting worse, lmao. And knowing his stage persona and how he feel about art and cultural commentary, it could’ve been really easy for him to fuck himself over or get really petty with replying to everything that was being said about him. But he didn’t. Which makes it even clearer (I hope) that when he DOES respond to certain things, it’s a deliberate choice and not something that he takes lightly. Like, at the time, I kept receiving messages from people “demanding” that he apologize, speak out, blah blah. And I was thinking like “give him time. He will say what he needs to say when he feels ready/ he’s not officially on tour right now (cuz the boys were on break for? What? 6 weeks or whatever?) let’s just wait. He will respond in his own way.” But in the back of my mind I was worried. His way of dealing with it just makes me more confident going into the future that he’s infinitely more thoughtful that people think he is.

I think the discussions that we were having at the time about how this debacle would ultimately bring Matty closer to his fans and drive Taylor Swift away from hers is, to an extent, true. (Obviously not for everyone and not in the same way universally cuz different people have different relationships with the art that they consume and with pop culture etc.) I think within the 1975, at least, we have a new level of appreciation for Matty and he does for us. And that’s the best silver lining that we could’ve hoped for in this monumentally shitty situation.

Hey, listen, not to be cheesy or whatever, but as Rob Sheffield (Rolling Stone Mag. Writer) always says, the music that you need will find you when you need it. As long as the 1975 found you, you’re here now and we are thrilled to have you. I think, generally speaking, the 1975 has kinda ruined me for mainstream music by making my taste better and making me expect more out of the art that I like hahaha. It’s a weird feeling but I’m ultimately grateful for it cuz it’s also pushed me to be a better person. So, I get it. And I’m glad you’re in this fandom now!

[renatedagmarmilada]

ten original paintings ripped..

watched by GUS of New York Human Research - Isabee Demski and Elizabeth Jones, ripped ten of Fekete’s paintings, they stole from sealed boxes left for safety at my friend’s home Midwife and goat farmer Deb Moore, of Reed City Michigan--- Isabee has often sold other people’s work as her own and is known for it--sold..She gave my work to her sons and their sex buddies, sold my work as their own.

Elizabeth Jones of Reed City, Michigan, is not yet clear what she has done with the Fekete 35 yrs of art work she robbed - nor did she pay her rent to her landlady Deb Moore.

Joan Mankovitz has let her kids rip up 3 of Fekete’s books filled with her stories from The Ashram Writers /Burngreave Sheffield/ run by Fekete some 15 yrs and Belinda, Turnbull wife, has let her children trash three of them too.. there were some 50 books which the lab st barths paid thieves have robbed from Fekete’s home.

[tieronecrush]

Book recs please? Except cinnamon toothpaste guy hahaha

oooo okay lemme give you some of my faves that are sitting around me in my room right now!

writers & lovers - lily king (a novel about writing a novel, but also about the woman writing the novel within the novel. a post-teen, post-twenties coming of age story)

the idiot - elif batuman (sad, dense in the beginning, but wonderfully funny and witty and delightful at parts)

beach read - emily henry (anything by her is so feel good & gus everett is one of my favorite men written by a woman……however her newest release is cinnamon toothpaste guy. i am giving him a chance still lmao)

love is a mixtape - rob sheffield (i’m normally a fiction girly but this memoir had me literally sobbing alone in my bedroom because of how he wrote about one of the loves of his life)

the invisible life of addie larue - v.e. schwab (I WILL NEVER STOP THINKING ABOUT THIS BOOK. this story has trapped part of my soul in it. a must read if you haven’t yet!!!!)

i could have many more but i will leave it at those for now! always love to give recs

#asks #anons

[waugh-bao]

I read an excerpt from the book where Keith was saying how Charlie was pretty beat up after the shows and actively working hard to keep up in the last couple tours. Knowing that and then knowing that Charlie was ready and willing to go on tour again.He was going to be hurting but he was going to be with his guys. I have no doubt that had he been able to go he still would have done an excellent job. Also in the excerpt was a story of Charlie knocking a guy out. Small, kind, but excellent fighter.

“‘The last couple of tours, he was feeling it,’ says Keith. 'It wasn't just a case of “I don't feel like it anymore.” He was having to really work those shows, and he'd be pretty beaten up after every one.'”

Beyond the fact that he had sciatica and was, at a certain point, so bad at just getting a bare minimum of daily nutrition that Mick was forcing him to come to his room to eat dinner every night, if you look at Charlie’s hands from that era (2018 in this case) you can tell he was putting himself through an incredible amount of pain to do what he was doing.

Rob Sheffield, a writer for Rolling Stone who interviewed the band a multitude of times, mentioned that all the guys (except Charlie, of course) told him that a good night for Charlie on tour was one where he ‘only’ needed to ice down after a show, and that often things were much worse than that.

He stayed with them, though, and almost as remarkably, he kept getting better a drummer, using his limits to draw out an adapted style.

“But, adds Don McAulay, 'I didn't notice any decline in his playing. It was harder to tour, but I saw him get more inventive as a player.’”

It just…it takes a nearly incomprehensible amount of love and loyalty and dedication to put yourself through that amount of physical agony, and homesickness, simply so you can keep doing the job you love with the people you love. And to agree to keep doing it after surgery and cancer and a pandemic even though you know it’s only going to cause you more pain.

But to the other part, it’s so great that it’s always Keith telling these stories. He clearly adores his small, kind, excellent fighter, and he wants everyone to know how courageous, but not cruel, he was.

“Keith does have another memory of Charlie losing control, and 'even that was in a very retiring way…Some loudmouth had said something, we were in a restaurant somewhere, I think in America. I don't know about what, but Charlie copped it. We sat down in this booth together - I think a couple of the other guys were there as well, I'm not sure - and Charlie gave his order, then he stood up and walked around to this guy. He said, "I heard what you said" and bang, this guy was on the fucking floor.’”

#I love that Keith will fully admit he’s actually kind of a terrible physical fighter #and lost constantly when he tried #but always wanted to brag about Charlie’s skills #the rolling stones #charlie watts #keith richards #old married band #paul sexton #ask response #anonymous

[taylortruther]

About Rob Sheffield, I've read two of his books (not his books about the beatles for example, the books about his wife that died) and he's just a very naturally effusive writer, he gets exited about everything and I love that type of writing.. I admit that his review of Adele for example, I didn't love it because I didn't like the album, but he's naturally like that... He's not putting on because of Taylor or anything...

thanks for this information! that's just his style/personality

[kulturado]

The Story: The Unstoppable Noise That Was Steve Albini

The Writer: Rob Sheffield

Plus: The Rolling Stone obit by Daniel Kreps

(Steve Albini photo: Paul Natkin)

#steve albini #music #recording engineers #recording #music industry #chicago #rolling stone #rob sheffield #daniel kreps #paul natkin #dead celebrities #rock #punk rock

[allamericansbitch]

Rolling stone situation is literally because of Rob Sheffield I fear 😭 a taylor can do no wrong swiftie with a staff writer position at what used to be the place u go to for honest music breakdowns

yeah it’s always that guy…. why lol

#anonymous #answered