What's happened to Carly Rae Jepsen?
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I posted a thread about her a couple of months back about her new single flopping. But now it's had a release and time. What has happened to her?!? She had so much hype surrounding her and everyone was saying she was the next big thing! Personally I don't think she is gonna break Call Me Maybe. This year has been the year of 1 Hit Wonders in the UK and I think she might be another one to add to it. What are you thoughts?
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Nobody is really that interested in her.
Double platinum in the US and New Zealand. Quadruple platinum in Australia. #8 US #5 UK
She should be thrilled with her addition to the "one-hit wonder" club though.
Seems as though Gotye will follow her into the one hit wonder club;)
I listened to her album a few times & there was only a few standout tracks, This Kiss (not sure why it flopped) I think it needed more promotion which Call Me Maybe obviously didn't.. & Tonight i'm getting over you.
I don't really remember that. I remember people saying from Day 1 that she would be a one-hit wonder, and then being shocked when her song with Owl City was a hit.
Maybe on this forum people were thinking she'd have a massive career, but this forum is overly optimistic and biased when it comes towards female pop stars, but that's certainly not how the general public felt, most people thought she'd be a one-hit wonder.
It's obvious from the way the song became a hit. It wasn't through normal methods originally, it was a Justin Bieber/Selena Gomez video that kicked things off. I remember immediately after that video (literally), the song was shooting up iTunes all around Europe and US, then a month or so later radio stations started to play it because it was hanging around on iTunes everywhere. She can't have Justin Bieber do a parody video of all her songs to make them hits.
There was a bit of TV airplay but if you don't have Sky then you're only getting two music channels and it was rarely on VIVA.
If she got the airplay that 'Call Me Maybe' got then I'm sure it would have at least went top 40. At least she had 'Good Time' with Owl City to stop her becoming a one-hit wonder.
She won a few awards I believe. Something like MTV's Rising Star or something along them lines. So they must of believed she had a good career ahead of her.
Bieber and Selena got all the credit for it and I've even heard Bieber say in an interview that he heard the song on the radio and Tweeted it to his fans which made it popular. :rolleyes: The sad thing is Carlos posted a YouTube video after his Call Me Maybe video blew up and said he'd love to meet Carly and that he was so happy the video got so popular, and yet he never got any credit for the songs success.
I was shocked when I found out how old she was.:eek:
So what?
Both of her albums (and her EP) are brilliant anyway, so that's all that really matters to me.