Dedicated
| Carly Rae Jepsen
Dedicated
Dedicated is the fourth studio album by Canadian singer Carly Rae Jepsen. It was released on May 17, 2019, through 604, School Boyand Interscope Records. The album was preceded by the release of the singles "Party for One", "Now That I Found You", "No Drug Like Me" and "Too Much". To support the album Jepsen embarked on The Dedicated Tour with dates in Europe, North America and Asia. -Wikipedia
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Pitch Fork
On her fourth album, the Canadian pop star is doing what she does best, calibrating lovesick or lovelorn synthpop that’s neither too hot nor too cold—and sometimes, regrettably, only lukewarm.
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Sputnik Music
Dedicated, at its best, demonstrates Carly Rae at her two-full-stops self. Jepsen swings well past the moon on individual songs, and at its many peaks her work here belongs in the company of her previous perfection.
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All Music
Fortunately, Jepsen is just as committed to her music as she is to the ideal of true love, and the way she's grown without sacrificing her uniqueness makes Dedicated a master class in what a 2010s pop album can be.
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The Atlantic
Dedicated shows that working within the confines of an ailing genre does not speak to a lack of ambition.
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NME
After four years away, CRJ is back with another sparkling collection of lively and stylised pop tunes.
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Los Angeles Times
Carly Rae Jepsen remains cult queen of the lovelorn on ‘Dedicated’.
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Paste Music
She’s always been savvy when it comes to pure feelings, making her fourth LP Dedicated another beacon of emotional intelligence, and Jepsen a straight-A student of pop history.
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Variety
Pop's unlikely cult hero continues to carve out her own lane.
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Loud and Quiet
As solid a collection as Dedicated undoubtedly is, it’s missing the magic that made Emotion such a cultural phenomenon.
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Stereogum
Dedicated is still pretty good, it just lacks the transcendence that made E•MO•TION undeniably one of the best pop albums of the decade.
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The Young Folks
Dedicated also features a few songs that one can take or leave; but when every song is performed with such dedication by the artist, none of the tracks are ever a throwaway.
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Music OMH
Dedicated is very much a continuation of what made Emotion so impressive – 15 songs filled with addictive hooks, infectious choruses and an exhilarating energy that keeps you coming back for repeat plays.
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Breathe Heavy
The new album from the Canadian singer is a vibrant reminder that Pop will never die.
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The Line of Best Fit
Dedicated highlights all that makes Carly Rae Jepsen great
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Nzherald
Dedicated isn't quite the home-run that Emotion was (I don't think anything ever could be) but it's still one hell of a swing; a brightly painted, disco-driven pop record packed with emotional highs.
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GQ
Carly Rae Jepsen's Dedicated is masterfully crafted but lacking in gravity
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Atwood Magazine
Dedicated is Carly Rae Jepsen’s answer to her newfound, more mature audience, while simultaneously feeling like a natural evolution to E•MO•TION.
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The Reviews Are In
The album is packed. It’s not often that we get more than a dozen songs on a single album anymore. Carly Rae Jepsen has given us 48 minutes of pop music to enjoy fully and completely.
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Cryptic Rock
Jepsen’s talents should not be overlooked. In fact, they should be celebrated as she continues to put her heart on the table and lay it all on the line with her new album Dedicated, set for release on Friday, May 17th via Interscope Records.
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Riff Magazine
Her dedication earns this album its name.
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Variety
Pop's unlikely cult hero continues to carve out her own lane.
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Refinery29
Dedicated is loaded with tracks worth having a kitchen dance party to.
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Jezebel
To my ear, Dedicated marks a sonic upgrade for Jepsen. This album’s songs are often more sparse and less brickwalled than those on 2015's Emotion, which makes my ears hurt less.
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The Irish Times
Once fans accept that Dedicated isn’t Emotion 2.0, they’ll fall head over heels for the Canadian pop queen as if it’s the first time.
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Slant
Carly Rae Jepsen’s Dedicated Is a Single-Minded Declaration of Love
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Independent
A positively jubilant album, covering the full spectrum of love, lust and break-ups.
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Noripcord
There's a lot to love in Dedicated, but Jepsen tries to cover too ground even if they follow similar song structures, to the point where it may bring some boredom—it's best to stream individual tracks instead of listening to the album's fifty minutes straight through.
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Stereogum
Carly Rae Jepsen’s New Album Has The Highest Metacritic User Score Of All Time
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The Skinny
Dedicated, Carly Rae Jepsen's follow-up to E•MO•TION, is a glistening collection of 80s-inspired pop earworms
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Uproxx
Carly Rae Jepsen’s ‘Dedicated’ Is More Ebullient Pop From One Of The Genre’s Best Outsiders
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Chima Style
It’s clear that Carly Rae Jepsen not only has more control over her work, but more confidence, and Dedicated is the culmination of an artist who has found her niche and is running with it .
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TFC
Wanna hear a pretty good synth-pop album? Listen to Dedicated by Carly Rae Jepsen.
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Thomas Bleach
Floating in dreamy nostalgic synths and 80’s inspired hooks, Carly Rae Jepsen’s fourth studio album ‘Dedicated’ is further proof that she is the pop star we need in the world.
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MSN
Keeping the essential 1980s hues of her earlier work while adding a small splash of classic ’70s disco, “Dedicated” mostly picks up where Jepsen left off four years earlier.
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The Student Playlist
While it’s overly long and sometimes commits the cardinal sin for a Carly Rae Jepsen album of being boring, ‘Dedicated’ shows signs of sonic and artistic growth.
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Newsday
Carly Rae Jepsen's stunning album shows she's an artistic daredevil.
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Express
A bop-able rollercoaster of love’s agony and ecstasy.
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Spectrum Pulse
You know, the more listens I've given Dedicated, I feel like Carly Rae Jepsen is in an impossible situation with this project: dealing with a compromised mainstream pop situation without obvious sources of influence.
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Aphoristic Album Reviews
Dedicated has is already the #5 acclaimed record on the 2019 chart on RateYourMusic, rarefied air for such a pure and joyous pop album. It’s deserved – it’s a high quality record from a talented operator.
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Stack
Dedicated is pure hope for the future.
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Exepose
Dedicated is an album of emotional resilience and offers hope to never give up on love – it will always find a way.
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Bust
"Dedicated" By Carly Rae Jepsen Is A Reminder To Why We Love Her
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Trackwave
Lifting our sorrows while addressing her own, Jepsen grants us salvation through pop. Committed? No. Dedicated.
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God is in the TV
Surprisingly Dedicated doesn’t sound laboured over and feels like a natural and understated evolution. It doesn’t have as many of the massive pop rushes of Emotion, but there is just as much to offer on this exquisitely-produced and inviting record.
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Stereoboard
At its best, ‘Dedicated’ is a complete delight.
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The Needle Drop
Dedicated mostly sounds like a second helping of Emotion, which isn't such a bad thing.
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The Straits Times
Pure pop bliss on Carly Rae Jepsen's Dedicated
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Aus Pop
This will keep her going for now, but I can’t help but feel like there’s a lot more to come from her we still haven’t heard yet.
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Living on Guilty Pleasures
Carly Rae Jepsen Reminds Us That Pop Music Should Be Unapologetic on 'Dedicated'
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Exclaim
Throughout Dedicated, Jepsen does what she does best, identifying isolated moments in love, freezing them, and blowing them up, widescreen, into a feeling.
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Treble
Dedicated proves her hot streak continues, a perfect inversion of EMOTION, something at once more mature and more developed.
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In the Loop
Carly Rae successfully pulls off something that has eluded many artists like her — a dark turn — precisely because of her abject refusal to compromise her artistic integrity; this is who she is, take it or leave it. As for me, I’ll take it without reservation.
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Clash
’Dedicated’ is a joyride of anthemic melodies and fist-pumping bangers that see Jepsen at the top of her game.
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Crash Course in Face Pollution
It’s an album that solidifies Jepsen’s strengths as a songwriter and expands upon her artistic vision, even if it plays a little too heavily on atmosphere and production tricks. If Emotion was the soundtrack to the best night ever, Dedicated is the taxi ride home, nestling into your seat while a light rain begins to patter against the window.
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The Tape Deck
Dedication is clear proof that Carly Rae Jepsen is still one of the most tasteful pop artists playing today, dedicated still to that inimitable sugar rush.
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