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Song of the Day #2,422: ‘I Really Like You’ – Carly Rae Jepsen

carly_rae_jepsen_really_like_youMTV stopped showing music videos years ago in favor of reality TV, but thanks to YouTube the art form is very much alive.

In fact, for marketing purposes, music videos are sometimes more important than the songs they feature.

Take Carly Rae Jepsen’s new single, ‘I Really Like You.’ The song is nowhere near as catchy as her smash ‘Call Me Maybe,’ and on its own could have fallen with a thud and relegated her to one-hit wonder status.

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Song of the Day #1,495: ‘Call Me Maybe’ – Carly Rae Jepsen

For the past two years, I’ve spent a couple of weeks presenting each year’s “songs of the summer” — those inescapable, feel-good tracks dominating TV and radio airplay.

Inherent in my singling out those songs in July or August was the chauvinistic assumption that none of those songs would show up on my year-end best songs lists.

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