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Aug 13, 2015Due to the era the album fetishes, the music sounds inescapably chintzy.... Jepsen’s improbably young voice helps distract from that.
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Aug 19, 2015For all its unexpected sounds and catchy choruses, Emotion falters in its lyrical blandness.
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Aug 18, 2015E·MO·TION is still a very pleasing album if not just a shade overambitious, clearly trying too hard to make the same genius pop moments that Kiss churned them out with effortless flair.
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Apr 24, 2017She doesn’t do anything to stamp her identity on the songs: good as they are, you’re struck by the sense you could be listening to anyone. It’s one problem that all the expensive names in the credits can’t solve, a single glaring imperfection in an album of otherwise perfect pop.
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Aug 19, 2015Emotion is full of pure cotton candy--delicious, distractingly sweet and filling, with a mildly suspicious aftertaste.... [The album is] full of excellent songs that seem to give up about two-thirds of the way through.
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Sep 8, 2015Carly Rae Jepsen and her production team try overly hard to be clever. In the end, what's left is a record that takes itself too seriously to be taken seriously by anyone else.
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User score distribution:
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Positive: 746 out of 813
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Mixed: 14 out of 813
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Negative: 53 out of 813
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