Hey, y'all, DJ Louis here, just dropping a preview of our latest Patreon episode about

Carly Ray Jepson's The Loveliest Time. This record, of course, came out last week. It is a

B-side slash companion piece to her 22 album, The Lonliest Time. And I wanted to use the opportunity

to get into talking about where Carly Ray Jepson has been in her career. We obviously did an

episode about her very early in the

podcast run in 2021, but this has been a low impact period for Carly Ray Jepson. The loneliest time was not

particularly huge. I think there was a feeling that maybe she had run out of steam, run out of

ideas, or new stuff she was trying wasn't totally connecting in the same way that her old stuff was.

And this record, I think, is one of the most interesting things she's done in a while and provide some interesting paths forward for Carly.

So I invited Brennan Carly from Service 95, who was, of course, our guest on our Fifth Harmony episode on the Patreon show to just pick apart Carly and the loveliest time and just all the songs and where we think this all might be heading for her.

So I have a snippet of it for you here. If you like this and you want to hear the rest of this episode, plus at least three bonus episodes of the show per month and access to our Discord, et cetera, et cetera. You can subscribe at patreon.com slash pop pantheon and I will also put the link in the show notes of this episode. So without further ado, here's a snippet of my conversation with Brendan Carly about the loveliest time. All right. So can you talk about a little bit like you were saying that this isn't technically like being framed as a B side in the same way that emotion B side B side and our motion side B and dedicated side B were? How is this being framed. How is the loveliest time being framed? So she has talked about this in

interviews already and she has basically... and dedicated side be were. How is this being framed? How is the loveliest time being framed?

So she has talked about this in interviews already.

And she has basically said that she always envisioned this not to be a B-side record of

songs that were cast-offs or rejects or things that almost made the first album,

but things that she was much more considerate about saving for a companion album. So she sees this album, I think,

as the second side. I know that sounds like a B-side, but as something that goes hand in hand

with the first record that she put out. Like a folklore evermore. Exactly correct. Yes.

Which I think is the, at this point in her career, I think that's a better way of framing it. I think she's been there, done that with the B sides, and she easily could have gotten away with doing it. But look at all the attention she's getting by reframing that narrative this time around. It feels like more of an event. It feels like more of a new album. It feels like there's more momentum behind it, like there's a narrative to it.

And that narrative that she's been talking about is the album she put up last year, the loneliest time, was a bit more these COVID sessions for songwriting.

She's so used to getting in the room with people. She's so used to the collaboration process.

She's so used to one way of doing things.

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