"Object Of Sound" Podcast Features Carly Rae Jepsen

 What you may not know about singer-songwriter Carly Rae Jepsen is that she's Canadian. After studying musical theater, Jepsen placed third on the fifth season of Canadian Idol in 2007. 

What music fans know her most for is her breakthrough single in 2012, "Call Me Maybe." The song was the best-selling single of that year, selling 18 million copies and reaching number one in at least 19 countries.

While it's exceedingly difficult to match or top that level of success, Jepsen has been a consistent hitmaker in the last decade. 

With the release of a new episode featuring Carly Rae Jepsen, the Sonos Radio podcast Object of Sound completes its three-part mini-series on The Wonders of Songwriting. 

 

Host Hanif Abdurraqib has explored the ways in which songs become songs. Through his previous two conversations with Ravyn Lenae and Nick Hakim, Abdurraqib has dug into one of his deepest curiosities as a poet, essayist and critic, emerging with a better understanding of where these artists' love of language comes from, how words turn into images and music, and how ideas change as they move from the page to the intangible space of melody and vibration, evolving through each musicians' individual process and many phases. 

"What I love about Carly Rae Jepsen as a songwriter is that she seems so committed to theme, and so committed to seeing an idea or an emotion through to its final conclusion," Abdurraqib explains. 

 

Together host and guest talk at length about the Jepsen's adept and clever songwriting on her brand-new album The Loneliest Time and how she called on friends to help her pick which of her hundreds of songs to include on it, as well as working with Rostam, and dislodging herself from the idea that she had to make sense of something for the listener, and being moved to tears by the music of James Taylor. The episode is also accompanied by Abdurraqib's specially-curated playlist of songs to cry to. 

Following his discussions with Ravyn Lenae about patience, and Nick Hakim about intuition, Hanif Abdurraqib's conversation with Jepsen about trusting the listener wraps up The Wonders of Songwriting with what he says "feels like a really neat bow. Those three themes, I think if we trace them through any creative process, will not only be more generous to our audiences, but ourselves as creators, as writers, as thinkers, and as people who move through the world."

Approaching the midpoint of its fourth season, Object of Sound has welcomed Björk, Danielle Ponder and Madison Cunningham over the past month, and new episodes will continue to drop weekly on Fridays from now through December 16th. 

 

In Los Angeles at a live podcast festival, there will a live taping of Object of Sound with host Hanif Abdurraqib and special guest Hrishikesh Hirway of Song Exploder on November 4.

Object of Sound is one of Sonos Radio's flagship series, in addition to a slate of brand new, artist-focused podcasts such as America's Dead - a journey to understand the Grateful Dead's endless impact on music, culture and consciousness - as well as Margo Price's Runaway Horses, featuring interviews with fellow trailblazers such as Bob Weir, Emmylou Harris, Amythyst Kiah, Swamp Dogg, Bettye LaVette and Lucius.