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Release Date
21 October 2022
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Length
16 tracks
The Loneliest Time is the sixth studio album by Canadian singer Carly Rae Jepsen. It was released on October 21, 2022, through 604 Records in Canada, and School Boy and Interscope Records in the United States.
The album was preceded by the release of its lead single, "Western Wind", which was followed by "Beach House", "Talking to Yourself" and its title track. In support of the album, Jepsen embarked on The So Nice Tour, which began in September 2022.
In May 2020, Jepsen revealed that she's recorded an "entire quarantine album" during the lockdown. Jepsen spoke to The Guardian that she was writing songs over Zoom alongside longtime collaborator Tavish Crowe.
While discussing the album in an interview with Crack, Jepsen stated she wanted to be less conscious of the decades she's been moving. Instead, she was inspired by various styles, including 80s pop, 70s folk, funk, and disco. Jepsen also explained she wanted to become more self-reflective and analytical of her own behaviours.
"I had the playground of all the eras to jump from, and this was more just writing from the heart, in whatever direction the songs wanted to go, … It excited me to have those moments of flirtation on the (new) album, but also broaden the spectrum of what the subject of a pop song was allowed to be,"
In an interview with The Ringer, Jepsen teased the possibility of releasing a Loneliest Time B-Sides, like she did with her previous albums Emotion (2015) and Dedicated (2019), stating that "there's 65 (B-sides) that I've listened to that I could make something of…"
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