A midafternoon BYOB paint-and-sip with CarlyRaeJepsen, a pop star unafraid to work a little harder and wander in a direction you might not expect
Carly Rae Jepsen. Photo: David Williams According to our kindly painting instructor, Sabrina, Carly Rae Jepsen has chosen an unusual piece for us to replicate at our midafternoon BYOB paint-and-sip.
Jepsen at Painting Lounge with her Picasso. Photo: David Williams Jepsen works constantly. She’s writing, “journal-entry style,” on the road, and she likes to accumulate as many ideas as she can before she will edit them down. Or, as her mother — who sits on the other side of me and has gray-blonde bangs and a round face that resembles Jepsen’s and is frankly the best painter of all of us — interjects, “bury the whole album in my backyard and start again.
Her songs address the usual subjects for pop — the joy of falling in love, the pain of a breakup — but aren’t afraid to take it to a thrilling, heartbreaking, Earth-shattering extreme. Which, after all, is how these things actually feel when you’re going through them, especially when you’re a teenager. Dedicated kicks off with “Julien,” about a guy she dated with a name she liked, whom she paradoxically doesn’t have “eternal love feelings for anymore.
In interviews around the release of Dedicated, Jepsen described wanting to write an album that you could clean your apartment to, chilled-down from the exuberance she put out in Emotion. On tour, she has been surprised to discover “it’s a party,” though anything involving Jepsen ends up feeling a bit like a party — if not fully a club rager, then at least the best sleepover you can imagine.
But before she has a chance to finish the painting, she has to go — after all, she has a show that night.
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