When “I Really Like You” was released as Emotion’s first single, cynics were quick to dismiss it as “Call Me Maybe 2.0”. In the hands of anyone else, “Gimme Love” would be cloying and melodramatic, yet with subtly brilliant vocal inflections and a genuinely expressive performance, Carly Rae Jepsen elevates it to perfection. The verses build up with vulnerability and awkwardness, until the chorus explodes with pent-up desire. If “Black Heart” isn’t the best song on Emotion, it’s certainly the most inventive.Ĭarly Rae Jepsen does cinematic longing better than practically anyone else, and “Gimme Love” is a prime example of that talent in action. The instrumental leans closer to industrial than the rest of the album’s standard synth-pop, yet Jepsen turns the song into an impossibly infectious funk jam. “Black Heart” is one of the weirder songs on Emotion. While literally every song on Emotion perfectly encapsulates love, “Let’s Get Lost,” moreso than any other, perfectly encapsulates young love, that overwhelming feeling of wanting to spend every waking minute with someone.
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Were we living in a world with any justice, “Let’s Get Lost” would soundtrack every montage in every teen romance movie ever. Also, it shares a name with my favorite Run The Jewels song. Sticky synths, Aphex Twin-lite percussion, and what sounds like a police siren on the hook? “Love Again” has it all. “Love Again” is way too good to be quarantined on the Japanese edition of the album. Only Carly Rae Jepsen has the power to turn the dancefloor into Braveheart. This song’s secret weapon is the epic ascending war drums on the bridge. This song packs way too many syllables into way too small a space. Speaking of the chorus, those piano keys? Brilliant. I can practically smell the shirtless dudes with construction hats and glowsticks chanting along to its chorus. “Didn’t Just Come Here to Dance” is up there with Lady GaGa’s “Just Dance” in the pantheon of mixing European techno with American pop. Instead, we are left with an impeccably crafted love song with an earworm of a hook. The instrumental is primarily built on a wobbling bass that suggests a darkness that never really materializes. I get the feeling that this song could have been a lot more. However, it’s a pretty standard song on an otherwise extremely distinctive album, and the vocoder effect is a little janky. “Favourite Colour” is pure balladry, complete with a soaring chorus that would make Toto jealous. It’s a testament to Emotion’s brilliance that a song as great as this is the worst track on the album. Each one of its 17 tracks are practically bulletproof, and so in the interest of internet list-nerdery, I have taken upon myself the Sisyphean task of ranking all of them. Emotion is a perfectly constructed mix of synth-pop, funk, and R&B. Emotion was far and away my favorite album of 2015, and arguably the best pop album of the past 10 years. This is the hardest thing I’ve ever had to do.
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