After the inexplicable underperformance of lead single ‘I Really Like You,’ Emotion, Carly Rae Jepsen’s third album, debuted outside of the top 10 on the US album chart. After similarly lacklustre debuts in Australia, Japan and Canada, the year’s best pop album is in danger of being buried. I encourage you to buy it now for some great 80s-tinged pop, and so you can feel a vague sense of smugness when it inevitably crops up on decade best-of lists in 2020, that will all uniformly describe its low sales as a “tragedy,” leading to a general lament over the modern pop industry and probably a suggestion that it was oversgadowed by Taylor Swift’s similar but less fantastic 1989. Save pop music, buy Emotion on iTunes.
