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Emotion: Side B
Emotion: Side B (stylized as E•MO•TION: Side B) is the third extended play (EP) by Canadian singer Carly Rae Jepsen. It was released on August 26, 2016, by 604, Schoolboy and Interscope Records. Jepsen developed Side B as a companion piece to her third studio album, Emotion (2015), in response to fan demand. Side B features unreleased songs that were cut from the original effort.
Like its parent album, Side B takes heavy influence from 1980s pop music, with lyrical narratives that revolve around love and heartbreak. Several writers and producers on Emotion reprised their roles on Side B, including Greg Kurstin, Dev Hynes, and Rami Yacoub. The EP received favourable reviews upon its release and was placed on several critics' lists for best of the year. The Japan-exclusive edition of the EP was supplemented with the song "Cut to the Feeling", a Jepsen single for the Canadian-French film Ballerina (2016). Emotion: Side B has sold 17,000 copies worldwide as of 2021.
Jepsen worked on her third studio album, Emotion (2015), for nearly three years and wrote over 250 songs in the process. From its inception in Los Angeles, Jepsen began to stray away from "mass-produced" writing sessions where she was unable to contribute in a significant way. After completing the title track "Emotion", the songs Jepsen developed thereafter became "essentials" that could anchor the album as opposed to being throwaway material. When the time came to sequence Emotion, Jepsen's label gave her a hard limit of 17 tracks to work with. Jepsen later said:
The metamorphosis of the tracklists I've made for Emotion have probably changed six times. I have a little easel board with it painted on and I'd come home from a session and then I'd write down a song I liked better than having to decide which song to take out. I had to rebuild it and give it a facelift almost every week.
Emotion was released in Japan in June 2015 and worldwide in August 2015. Despite receiving positive reviews from music critics, it was met with underwhelming commercial success. The album developed a cult following and Jepsen grew to become a "critical" or "indie darling". She embarked on the Gimmie Love Tour in support of the album in late 2015. She cited repeated requests from fans during the tour to release an "Emotion 2.0" as an inspiration for Emotion: Side B. Speaking to radio station WMSC in March 2016, Jepsen expressed a desire to release these songs, stating that she'd been contemplating an Emotion 2.0-type release. The remix album, Emotion Remixed + was released exclusively in Japan on March 2, 2016, marking the first appearance of the songs "First Time" and "Fever", which she began performing on the second US leg of her tour.
The EP opens with a distorted cassette-recording of the chorus to "First Time", co-written with the same ensemble behind Jepsen's "Your Type". A synth-funk song, its bubblegum instrumental contrasts with Jepsen's pleas to rekindle a relationship, channeling the "breeziness" of the Jets' "Crush on You". In "Higher", Jepsen sings about a relationship in which she is swept off her feet. Brad Nelson of Pitchfork called it "the most transparent 'love' song" from her Emotion offerings". "Higher" is built upon "fizzy" synths and New Wave drums. Nelson describes its production as invoking "the crisp, fussed architecture of a Scritti Politti song", whereas Esther Zuckerman of The A.V. Club likened it to a Robyn outtake.
"The One" is described as "bouncy synthwave-lite", where Jepsen sings about avoiding commitment. "Fever" is placed in the "weird and unstable space just before a breakup", where Jepsen confesses to stealing her boyfriend's bike and riding it to his empty house. Nelson notes that the song is "vacuumed into the throb of a bass drum", alluding to the absence of Jepsen's romantic interest. Entertainment Weekly's Jessica Goodman highlighted "Fever" as standout track, calling it a "devastating karaoke sing-along". "Body Language" is accentuated with 808 drum kicks and handclaps. "Cry" is a mid-tempo ballad sung about an emotionally unavailable boyfriend, recalling the Italo disco genre. The song utilizes a synth bass that is "just muted enough to invert its usual effect, generating a feeling of weightlessness".
In 2011, Jepsen participated in an anti-smoking campaign for her home province of British Columbia's Healthy Living Alliance coalition known as "Quitters Unite", which featured an unreleased composition that was reworked into "Store". Several critics have noted its "bizarre" nature as a "misleadingly chipper" song about walking out on a relationship, and its carefully sung verses juxtaposed with a "violent waking" of a chorus. Maura Johnston of Rolling Stone described it as a danceable Dear John letter, while New Statesman's Anna Leszkiewicz called it a "satire of deadbeat dad tropes".
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Emotion: Side B
Emotion: Side B (stylized as E•MO•TION: Side B) is the third extended play (EP) by Canadian singer Carly Rae Jepsen. It was released on August 26, 2016, by 604, Schoolboy and Interscope Records. Jepsen developed Side B as a companion piece to her third studio album, Emotion (2015), in response to fan demand. Side B features unreleased songs that were cut from the original effort.
Like its parent album, Side B takes heavy influence from 1980s pop music, with lyrical narratives that revolve around love and heartbreak. Several writers and producers on Emotion reprised their roles on Side B, including Greg Kurstin, Dev Hynes, and Rami Yacoub. The EP received favourable reviews upon its release and was placed on several critics' lists for best of the year. The Japan-exclusive edition of the EP was supplemented with the song "Cut to the Feeling", a Jepsen single for the Canadian-French film Ballerina (2016). Emotion: Side B has sold 17,000 copies worldwide as of 2021.
Jepsen worked on her third studio album, Emotion (2015), for nearly three years and wrote over 250 songs in the process. From its inception in Los Angeles, Jepsen began to stray away from "mass-produced" writing sessions where she was unable to contribute in a significant way. After completing the title track "Emotion", the songs Jepsen developed thereafter became "essentials" that could anchor the album as opposed to being throwaway material. When the time came to sequence Emotion, Jepsen's label gave her a hard limit of 17 tracks to work with. Jepsen later said:
The metamorphosis of the tracklists I've made for Emotion have probably changed six times. I have a little easel board with it painted on and I'd come home from a session and then I'd write down a song I liked better than having to decide which song to take out. I had to rebuild it and give it a facelift almost every week.
Emotion was released in Japan in June 2015 and worldwide in August 2015. Despite receiving positive reviews from music critics, it was met with underwhelming commercial success. The album developed a cult following and Jepsen grew to become a "critical" or "indie darling". She embarked on the Gimmie Love Tour in support of the album in late 2015. She cited repeated requests from fans during the tour to release an "Emotion 2.0" as an inspiration for Emotion: Side B. Speaking to radio station WMSC in March 2016, Jepsen expressed a desire to release these songs, stating that she'd been contemplating an Emotion 2.0-type release. The remix album, Emotion Remixed + was released exclusively in Japan on March 2, 2016, marking the first appearance of the songs "First Time" and "Fever", which she began performing on the second US leg of her tour.
The EP opens with a distorted cassette-recording of the chorus to "First Time", co-written with the same ensemble behind Jepsen's "Your Type". A synth-funk song, its bubblegum instrumental contrasts with Jepsen's pleas to rekindle a relationship, channeling the "breeziness" of the Jets' "Crush on You". In "Higher", Jepsen sings about a relationship in which she is swept off her feet. Brad Nelson of Pitchfork called it "the most transparent 'love' song" from her Emotion offerings". "Higher" is built upon "fizzy" synths and New Wave drums. Nelson describes its production as invoking "the crisp, fussed architecture of a Scritti Politti song", whereas Esther Zuckerman of The A.V. Club likened it to a Robyn outtake.
"The One" is described as "bouncy synthwave-lite", where Jepsen sings about avoiding commitment. "Fever" is placed in the "weird and unstable space just before a breakup", where Jepsen confesses to stealing her boyfriend's bike and riding it to his empty house. Nelson notes that the song is "vacuumed into the throb of a bass drum", alluding to the absence of Jepsen's romantic interest. Entertainment Weekly's Jessica Goodman highlighted "Fever" as standout track, calling it a "devastating karaoke sing-along". "Body Language" is accentuated with 808 drum kicks and handclaps. "Cry" is a mid-tempo ballad sung about an emotionally unavailable boyfriend, recalling the Italo disco genre. The song utilizes a synth bass that is "just muted enough to invert its usual effect, generating a feeling of weightlessness".
In 2011, Jepsen participated in an anti-smoking campaign for her home province of British Columbia's Healthy Living Alliance coalition known as "Quitters Unite", which featured an unreleased composition that was reworked into "Store". Several critics have noted its "bizarre" nature as a "misleadingly chipper" song about walking out on a relationship, and its carefully sung verses juxtaposed with a "violent waking" of a chorus. Maura Johnston of Rolling Stone described it as a danceable Dear John letter, while New Statesman's Anna Leszkiewicz called it a "satire of deadbeat dad tropes".