Carly Rae Jepsen

Jepsen gives dimension to wrangling with small but powerful feelings where pop culture would, especially with women, rebuke it.

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The singer's music taps into a shared queer history of escape, longing, and disappointment—while reveling in the pleasure of all those emotions.