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Fans react to Carly Rae Jepsen’s “best album yet” The Loveliest Time

By Conor Clark

28th July 2023

Carly Rae Jepsen has released her highly anticipated seventh studio album, The Loveliest Time, and fans couldn’t be happier.

The record is a companion project to The Loneliest Time, which Carly released in October last year.

“At this point you know me so well that I won’t even tease about a b sides,” Carly wrote on Instagram on 6 July. “It’s almost disrespectful because you know that it’s coming. And in fact this is the time to announce that it’s here. It’s done and a month from now The Loveliest Time will be all yours. I can’t really call it a b sides as if these were cast off ideas – it’s the completed set to a body of work that taught me so much about love and loneliness and myself.”

She explained that, in contrast to The Loneliest Time, this release reflects how she felt after the world “opened itself back up again”.

“It’s time for celebration and for all the lessons we have learned to burst into joyful action,” Carly told fans.

“Carly Rae Jepsen gave us nothing but bangers!”

Since the release of The Loveliest Time on 28 July, fans have been taking to social media to share how much they love it.

“IT IS HER BEST ALBUM YET!” one stan wrote on Twitter. “PRODUCTION ON POINT, LYRICS EMOTIONALLY DEVASTATING AND INSANELY HORNY, HER VOCALS STELLAR AND THE SONGS ARE EXPERIMENTAL.”

A second described the record as “a fab wonky and weird album” that Carly probably felt like “a silly goose when she was making” in the best way possible.

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A third fan said: “Completed my first listen of The Loveliest Time and Carly Rae Jepsen gave us nothing but bangers!! I can’t wait to listen to it again as soon as I wake up tomorrow hehe!”

Other listeners shared which songs have them most gagged.

“Kamikaze & Stadium Love are huge. TLT is gonna be both a grower and a shower! I’m floored,” one explained.

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Another added: “Carly saw the gays call Rush the song of the summer and said wait till y’all hear Psychedelic Switch.”

“The funk vibes of So Right by Carly Rae Jepsen is exactly what I need in my life rn feeling blessed,” someone else wrote.

You can stream The Loveliest Time here and see how more fans reacted below.