Emotion: Side B
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| EP by Carly Rae Jepsen | ||||
| Released | August 26, 2016 | |||
| Genre | Pop | |||
| Length | 27:38 | |||
| Label | 604 | |||
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Emotion: Side B (stylized as E•MO•TION: Side B) is the second extended play (EP) by Canadian singer Carly Rae Jepsen. It was released on August 26, 2016 by 604 Records in Canada and School Boy Records and Interscope Records in the United States. Emotion: Side B was announced on the one-year anniversary of Jepsen's third studio album, Emotion (2015) and features unreleased songs that did not make the cut for the original album. The EP received critical praise upon its release. It was placed on several critics' lists for best of year.
In June 2015, Jepsen released her third studio album, Emotion, which did not have much commercial success. Despite this, the album developed a strong cult following and Jepsen grew to become a "critical darling".Emotion was included on several year-end lists from publications such as NPR, NME, Complex, and The Village Voice, and the album's promotional cycle was rounded out with a well-received performance at the 2016 Pitchfork Music Festival.
In a March 2016 interview with radio station WMSC, Jepsen expressed a desire to release some leftover material from the album's recording sessions, stating that she had been thinking of an Emotion 2.0-type release. In the process of sequencing Emotion, Jepsen and her team had to work with a hard limit of 17 tracks:
Then I got it to my top 40 and I was teasing my label, being like, "Would it be weird if I released 40 songs, after being away for three years?" [Laughing] They're like, "Yeah, that's just not gonna happen." I'm like, "Are you sure?" They're like, "Yeah, we're sure." So, OK, I had to narrow it down. We had heated debates and passionate emails back like, "Don't kill my babies!" 'cause I originally thought I got to have 21 songs and then I had to go down to 12. [We] somehow brought it up to 17 for the deluxe [edition] and it was a lot of arguing, but pleasant arguing; everyone was really understanding of where I was at. [...] 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.
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