I think pop songs can be the same way.ĭoes listening to music on vinyl sound better to you than it does on other formats? It’s something that hits you on the first listen, and I think jazz songs have that capability - where they’re simple, but they’re potent. There’s a kind of challenge to really try and evoke an emotion in such a simple way. I always think of those classic, standard jazz songs in the same way as what I love about pop music. I found that as I was mixing this album, I listened to stuff from the ’40s as a palette cleanser from making ’80s-style music during the day, which was enough of a vacation from it. As long as you’re finding it - that’s the main thing.” “I can’t decide how other people find music. When I go through it, I’m my grandmother’s daughter, because the majority of stuff is from the 1940s - it’s like, everything Billie Holliday has ever made! (laughs) a couple of years ago - just a mattress and a record player! I only just started my collection over the last two or three years. Well, I bought myself a record player! (laughs) It was one of the first and only purchases I made when I moved my things into my apartment in L.A.
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How do you personally listen to music yourself these days? That was another one of those magical moments - the perfect combination for what your mood was that day, what you were already counting on doing and bringing it all together. And the way that facelift began was just like one of those nights where you wake up in the middle of it, and there’s the verse! And that was (sings), “I’ve got a cavern of secrets / None of them are for you.” I showed that to Rostam at the studio the next day, and it turned out that it really jibed together well with something he was playing. The song that I do with Rostam from Vampire Weekend, Warm Blood - some of the melodies were in a different form from another song I had done earlier that we gave a new facelift to. More like pieces of songs that have come to me that way.
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You need to be invested in the story of a song that also has great hooks in it.” “The songs had to be about the story and the emotion, the longing. “I wanted to make an album that had different layers to it,” she says. It would be easy to merely duplicate the formula of 2011’s ubiquitous Call Me Maybe, but Carly Rae Jepsen isn’t one for repeating herself. “You can never get it better than that first take.