She took her time, vowing to come back when she figured out not just what she wanted to say with her songs, but how she wanted to say it. She immersed herself in the sound of 1980s icons like Prince and Madonna as well as contemporary pop artists like Solange and Sky Ferreira. Feeling pressured by her own hit – and a bit frustrated with her lack of creative control on Kiss – Jepsen took some time off, spending a few months on Broadway in the title role of Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella. Three more singles had been released from the album, and “Call Me Maybe” outperformed all of them. Listen to the expanded edition of EMOTION here.ĭespite Kiss’ success, Jepsen seemed to recognize that her time in the limelight might be limited. TION) arrived on August 21, 2015, it not only brought Jepsen critical adoration, but a new, loyal audience.It looked as if Jepsen was on track to secure a place in the pop pantheon alongside Taylor Swift and Adele, but when it took three years for a follow-up to materialize, she was at risk of being labeled a one-hit-wonder.
Four years earlier, her Billboard Hot 100-topper “Call Me Maybe” made her a household name, and the album it appeared on a year later, Kiss, sold over a million copies worldwide. But that wasn’t how things worked for Carly Rae Jepsen, whose 2015 masterpiece EMOTION turned her success inside out. Usually, the cult following comes before the breakout single.
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