{"id":803925,"date":"2020-02-06T23:15:27","date_gmt":"2020-02-07T06:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=948707"},"modified":"2020-02-06T23:15:27","modified_gmt":"2020-02-07T06:15:27","slug":"carly-rae-jepsen-returns-with-sassy-brush-off-song-lets-be-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/carly-rae-jepsen-returns-with-sassy-brush-off-song-lets-be-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"Carly Rae Jepsen Returns With Sassy Brush-Off Song \u2018Let\u2019s Be Friends\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Carly.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>Just in time for Valentine\u2019s Day, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/carly-rae-jepsen\/\" id=\"auto-tag_carly-rae-jepsen\" data-tag=\"carly-rae-jepsen\">Carly Rae Jepsen<\/a> has kicked off 2020 with break-up post-mortem \u201cLet\u2019s Be Friends.\u201d She released her fourth album, <em>Dedicated<\/em>, in May.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s be friends\/Then never speak again,\u201d she sassily declares with her brush-off lyrics over a strutting guitar melody. \u201cIt\u2019s cool, we can just pretend we\u2019re friends and never speak again\/See you soon, hope we can remain good friends.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clashmusic.com\/features\/ten-minutes-with-a-pop-icon-carly-rae-jepsen-interviewed\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Clash Music<\/a>, Jepsen revealed that she would be interested in releasing a&nbsp;<em>Dedicated Side B<\/em>, similar to&nbsp;<em>Emotion Side B<\/em>, which followed her acclaimed 2015 album&nbsp;<em>Emotion<\/em>. \u201cIt would be a waste not to share more. There\u2019s some songs I love equally as much [that I\u2019m keeping] in my back pocket here. I\u2019m looking for the right time and want to make sure I have them polished but yeah, I really hope to share some more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/carly-rae-jepsen-new-album-dedicated-827482\/\"><em>Rolling Stone<\/em><\/a> last year, she revealed that she had written around 200 songs for&nbsp;<em>Dedicated<\/em>, which featured singles \u201cNow That I Found You\u201d and \u201cToo Much.\u201d \u201cI rarely write a song and am like, \u2018It\u2019s done!,\u2019 \u201d she admits. \u201cIt\u2019s sort of my passion and obsession in a way: late at night being like, \u2018I found the lyric!\u2019 I envy writers that are like, \u2018I just wrote this and put it on the album.\u2019 I\u2019m like, \u2018How do you sleep at night?!\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-contextual-player\">\n<h3> Popular on Rolling Stone <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/carly-rae-jepsen-new-song-lets-be-friends-948707\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just in time for Valentine\u2019s Day, Carly Rae Jepsen has kicked off 2020 with break-up post-mortem \u201cLet\u2019s Be Friends.\u201d She released her fourth album, Dedicated, in May. \u201cLet\u2019s be friends\/Then never speak again,\u201d she sassily declares with her brush-off lyrics over a strutting guitar melody. \u201cIt\u2019s cool, we can just pretend we\u2019re friends and never [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-803925","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-23 11:07:55","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=803925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}