b'They say you should never meet your idols, that you\\u2019ll only be disappointed. We had this possibility in mind going into our first interview with Carly Rae Jepsen, the pop star who inspired us to start our podcast Switched on Pop when Nate taught \\u201cCall Me Maybe\\u201d as a case study in music theory. Six years later and hundreds of pleading emails later, the time had come to meet the muse and unpack her latest offering, Dedicated Side B. In the course of composing her last two albums, E\\u2022MO\\u2022TION and Dedicated, Jepsen wrote over 200 songs. Many of her favorite works didn\\u2019t make it on either final album, so she\\u2019s started a tradition of releasing \\u201cSide B\\u201d records on the one-year anniversary of her last release. Her newest collection of unreleased music fluidly crosses decades of musical history and spans a vast emotional range. We spoke with Jepsen over Zoom about how she curated her latest B-Side release from a massive body of work. Would this beatific figure, once described by poet Hanif Abdurraqib and the \\u201cmost honest pop musician working,\\u201d live up to her reputation? Listen to find out.\\n\\nSONGS DISCUSSED\\n\\nCarly Rae Jepsen - Call Me Maybe, Julien, Party For One, Now That I\\u2019ve Found You, No Drug Like Me, Want You In My Room, Cut To The Feeling, Run Away With Me, Window, This Love Isn\\u2019t Crazy, Solo\\n\\nSqueeze - Tempted By The Fruit\\n\\nIrving Berlin - God Bless America performed by Kate Smith\\n\\n\\nVulfpeck - Back Pocket\\n\\n\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices'