

Her biggest challenge may be getting radio to gracefully let go of "Call Me Maybe" after 29 weeks on the chart (it's No. 15 at Radio, while "Good Time" is No. 14) to make room for "This Kiss." I call this the "Duncan Sheik complex," who became a one-hit wonder in 1997, when top 40 radio held onto hit "Barely Breathing" for nearly a year, ultimately suffocating any chance


While I absorb the 15 new tracks on Kiss' "Deluxe Version," Billboard.com's Jason Lipshutz offers an excellent track-by-track review here.
His overall purview: "Is Carly Rae Jepsen an album artist? 'Call Me Maybe' overtook pop radio this summer because the song is an astonishingly catchy piece of sonic cotton candy, but prolonging that phenomenon over a 42-minute span is much trickier. Kiss, Jepsen's second album and first since becoming a superstar, is the sound of an artist relentlessly trying to prove her staying power and transform the 'magic in a bottle' into a delectable cocktail. The result is an album that comes on a bit strong, but has the pop pedigree to avoid any major missteps." *
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