Popular lore has it that Canadian pop singer Carly Rae Jepsen workshopped two hundred songs before selecting the final tracklist for Emotion, a meticulously constructed album that scored equally big with music critics and thirty-something gay men. Seriously: Emotion ranked third on the Village Voice’s 500-critic strong survey of 2015’s best albums, while Jepsen’s recently tour stops counted for points on The Advocate’s 2016 ranking of the country’s queerest cities. (Providence was #16.) A review of the “Call Me Maybe” singer’s recent show in Pittsburgh referenced “an unusual amount of bearded guys” and a shortage of anyone else.
