"Almost 10 years to the day after a show at the Troubadour that marked the release of her album "Emotion," Carly Rae Jepsen brought the 2015 LP back to the same West Hollywood club on Tuesday night for a sold-out one-off gig in which she played "Emotion" from beginning to end. The follow-up to Jepsen's un-follow-uppable 2012 smash "Call Me Maybe," "Emotion" wasn't exactly the hit the singer and her team were hoping for. Yet over time, the album - which Jepsen made with a host of hip producers and songwriters including Rostam, Ariel Rechtshaid and Blood Orange's Dev Hynes - became a cult favorite beloved for its squirmy '80s R&B grooves and its tone of unabashed yearning."
"After "Making the Most of the Night" - which, according to the internet, she hadn't played live since 2018 - Jepsen talked about moving to Los Angeles from her native Canada when she was 26. "I had brought a little suitcase, and I kept calling my parents and saying, 'Send more clothes!'" she said. "Five years later, I was like, I think I live here now. I'm very happy to say L.A. has become my home.""
Carly Rae Jepsen returned to the Troubadour nearly ten years after the album Emotion’s release to perform the 2015 LP in full for a sold-out one-off show. The album, produced with collaborators including Rostam, Ariel Rechtshaid and Dev Hynes, evolved into a cult favorite noted for its '80s R&B grooves and unabashed yearning despite not matching the commercial peak of "Call Me Maybe." The concert featured intimate touches — a saxophone intro, modest staging and a small fan during "I Really Like You" — and included moments of personal storytelling about moving to Los Angeles and embracing it as home.
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