New Music Alert: "Run Away With Me", Carly Rae Jepson

We haven't heard much from Carly Rae Jepson since "Call Me Maybe". The song spent nine consecutive weeks on the Billboard Hot 100, and sold 15 million copies, the most ever by a female artist in the digital era. The song earned Jepson two Grammy nominations (Song of the Year and Best Pop Solo Performance). However, the album that followed (entitled "Kiss") underperformed, as did the singles that followed "Call Me Maybe".

Jepson is clearly a talented pop artist; "Kiss" had some good material, but as an album, it didn't live up to the promise set by its lead single. In the years since, she's been working on her follow up, entitled "Emotion" (stylized as "E•MO•TION") which seems to deliver the goods.

Lead single "I Really Like You" follows a similar formula to "Call Me Maybe", but proves to be just as infectious, and the Dev Hynes "All That" pushes Jepson forward in the same way "Everything Is Embarrassing" pushed Sky Ferreira forward.

The newest offering from the project, which will be released worldwide on August 21, is Jepson's best song yet. "Run Away With Me" is "Teenage Dream" 2.0; better and catchier. It's clear that with this album, Jepson was heavily influenced by pop music of the 80's, to great success. Taylor Swift's "1989", though a highly listenable and accomplished record, resembles the 80's much less after one listen of "Run Away With Me". The song is a euphoric, sugar rush of dance-pop. One listen is absolutely impossible, this is a song that demands 3 or 5 more listens right after you're finished with the first. Not to mention, it's relatable; Jepson is great at making you nostalgic for the days of middle school crushes.

Don't believe me? See for yourself, the music video is equally as great.