In just over a month we will have ‘Day and Night’, Carly Rae Jepsen’s new album, which will be a double. The first two previews, ‘On Wire’ -with its layers of distorted guitars- and ‘After All’ -with a very Jungle sound-, have been able to convince halfway, but that problem should not be repeated with the third preview, ‘Don’t Leave Me on the Dancefloor’.
‘Don’t Leave Me on the Dance Floor’ is a song from ‘EMOTION’ and ‘Dedicated’, although the nocturnal tone of the production makes it fit into the second part of the album, the one dedicated to the night. It’s the song of the day.
‘Don’t Leave Me on the Dance Floor’ has the magic of those pop songs made to dance and move at the same time. If the production of CJ Baran – among others – mixes marked bass and futuristic synths in the vein of Daft Punk, the melody is pure “pop perfection”, with echoes of ABBA. The result is a rounded pop song, one of those that reminds us why Carly Rae Jepsen knows how to make this type of song like few others.
Carly hits the musical key while turning the dance floor into a metaphor for the fear of being left alone facing the night or something else (the passage of time? existence itself?). “Don’t leave me alone in the dark, I need you on the dance floor,” implores Carly, who in the phrase “remember what it feels like to be the one to take me home” seems to speak of the need to have someone to accompany us and return us to a safe place.
