{"id":616818,"date":"2026-09-15T13:24:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T13:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/616818\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T13:24:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T13:24:18","slug":"carly-rae-jepsen-day-and-night-review-a-disquisition-on-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/616818\/","title":{"rendered":"Carly Rae Jepsen ‘Day and Night’ Review: A Disquisition on Love"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tIn certain corners of the internet, Carly Rae Jepsen<\/a> is not just the woman behind the immortal 2011 hit \u201cCall Me Maybe,\u201d but a bard of pop excellence. Her fans will say she has penned at least five of the century\u2019s best pop songs (though no one can agree on which). She is considered the Canadian equivalent to the Down Under disco queen Kylie Minogue by some, and recalls a young Taylor Swift for her unabashed earnestness. Across her vast discography, she writes, almost exclusively, about this crazy little thing called love, delivering endearing declarations of running away together<\/a> and bold breakup anthems<\/a> in her syrupy-sweet voice.<\/p>\n

\n\tJepsen\u2019s instinct to follow her heart, whether it\u2019s toward new love or to experiment with an untouched genre, has always been her greatest asset. Her latest record Day and Night<\/a> isn\u2019t just a double album; it\u2019s also a travelogue \u2014 musically and lyrically \u2014 of love, some of which is inspired by her romance with producer Cole M.G.N., whom she married last year. From cotton-candy afternoons flecked with Balearic influence to two-stepping sunset soirees and blissed-out bossa-nova confessionals under a twilight sky, it\u2019s Jepsen\u2019s most experimental and exhilarating work, and she makes falling in love feel brand-new all over again.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Day side of the album draws from silky genres like dream pop and folk pop, where she sounds like she\u2019s on cloud nine. The nu-disco \u201cHabits of Creatures\u201d establishes Jepsen\u2019s desire for stability (\u201cGimme some more of the same,\u201d she sighs as the synths, which mimic a familiar Todd Terje track<\/a>, pirouette toward the heavens), and on \u201cSoft,\u201d she lets her guard down and twirls into her lover\u2019s arms. Night jets off to clubs across the globe, where she gets more direct with her desires. There\u2019s the deep house \u201cNear or Far,\u201d the sexy, sample-heavy \u201cNever Let a Good Thing Die,\u201d and a whole lot of disco (this is a Carly Rae Jepsen album, after all). \u201cDon\u2019t Leave Me on the Dance Floor<\/a>\u201d is a sing-so-hard-you-cry proclamation, where each repeat of the song\u2019s title, from sky-high shouts to cellophane-thin coos, feels like the difference between life and death. \u201cDon\u2019t leave me in the dark to face another song alone,\u201d she beckons to her lover on the metallic chorus, concurrently recalling French touch and ABBA.<\/p>\n

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\n\tDay and Night is a never-ending honeymoon as she saunters through a variety of serene tableaus, like the beach sway of \u201cBlue Skies\u201d or the opulent bacchanal that is \u201cVersailles.\u201d The latter track takes overt inspiration from Sofia Coppola\u2019s 2006 film Marie Antoinette, as Jepsen beckons her love to engage in life\u2019s vices with her, like marring bedsheets with fruit stains and dashing nude through the garden. The record was chiefly produced by Jepsen mainstay Kyle Shearer, who provides Day and Night\u2018s most danceable tracks, while Bullion, CJ Baran, Magnus Lideh\u00e4ll, and more, make appearances too. Most notably, M.G.N. co-wrote and produced several songs, including the bubbly ode to family \u201cMotivation\u201d and \u201cJust a Little Walk on the Moon,\u201d which dabbles in bossa nova and acts as a fairytale closer to Day and Night\u2019s first side.<\/p>\n

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\n\tWith Jepsen, it\u2019s all about love, all the time, from the dazzling highs to the devastating lows. To her, there\u2019s no shame in airing out your baggage and confessing your feelings in a single song. Night closer \u201cSuper Sage\u201d starts with Jepsen nervously pacing, worried she\u2019s driving her lover to the brink as synths pile and pan like spiraling anxieties. Then suddenly, \u00ad\u201cSuper Sage\u201d rockets to the psychedelic-pop cosmos. The tempo picks up, synths undulate like a sine wave, and it all mimics that rush of heat one feels when they\u2019re about to confess everything. Despite the Edenic imagery painted throughout Day and Night, Jepsen\u2019s repeated gasps of \u201cI love you\u201d make for the album\u2019s most romantic and vulnerable moment, full of stark intensity. Seven years ago, on Dedicated\u2018s \u201cReal Love,\u201d Jepsen screamed to the clouds about wanting genuine connection. On Day and Night, it sounds like she\u2019s found it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In certain corners of the internet, Carly Rae Jepsen is not just the woman behind the immortal 2011…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":616819,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[119076,146,85,46,409],"class_list":["post-616818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-carly-rae-jepsen","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=616818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/616819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}