“Dedicated highlights all that makes Carly Rae Jepsen great”
“Carly Rae Jepsen’s third album ‘Emotion’ was the perfect pop transformation. After years of being written off as a one-hit wonder due to the effervescent ‘Call Me Maybe’ being played, well, everywhere in 2012, the stellar collection of 80s-influenced hits which filled the Canadian’s 2015 record finally established her as a pop force to be reckoned with. Combining new wave and synth-pop influences ”
“She’ll forever be synonymous with Call Me Maybe. But Carly Rae Jepsen’s real trademark contrasts innocence – always gasping in awe at romance’s potential – with a wolfish emotional intensity that suggests her lovers are mere conduits for sensation: “Take me! To the! Feeling!” as she once sang. On her cult 2015 album Emotion, Jepsen wielded lusty saxophone solos to convey that decadence, bombast t”
“Since we’re living in a post-Emotion world, it’s hard to remember a time when Carly Rae Jepsen wasn’t regarded as a pop icon. But before the sexual torment of “Emotion,” the sweet rush of “Gimme Love” and all those “Run Away With Me” saxophone memes, Carly Rae Jepsen was, to most, “Call Me Maybe” and nothing more. 2015 became her moment, and Emotion the pop album to save them all. Now in her thir”
“On her fourth album, the Canadian pop star is doing what she does best, calibrating lovesick or lovelorn synthpop that’s neither too hot nor too cold—and sometimes, regrettably, only lukewarm.”
“Dedicated mostly sounds like a second helping of Emotion, which isn't such a bad thing.”
