Carly Rae Jepsen Lets Bae Down Easy On ‘Let’s Be Friends’

Oh the venomous lyrics, the cheery disposition, the timing! Carly Rae Jepsen may just be the villain of Valentine's Day with her evil new release, "Let's Be Companions that provides a roadmap for a bumpy breakup. She brings you in close to experience the moment while she ends a situation that's been spiraling out of control for some time. Holding his beating heart in her well-manicured fingers, she crushes it and sticks her tongue out.

Imagine it's Valentine's Day night and immediately following the 324th foolish argument of the year, Jepsen has had it with her partner. So she plays along and sets up a nice dinner and then gets dolled up in a little bit black dress. Once the future exes get to the restaurant, that's where "Let's Be Companions comes into play, finding us along the ride for the relationship-ending situation about to unfold.


The beat kicks in like a groovy celebration of love, only we know that the outcome will be more sinister than an electric kiss. A fuzzy guitar gives way to a upbeat rhythm that puts Jepsen's voice front and center to be the bearer of bad news."Nobody's dying, it's a meal, not a date, yet I'm/ Feeling young and inspired/ That this is over and I'm hoping you'll agree," she whispers between forkfuls of caesar fruit salad, smiling. Her partner's shocked; he never thought this would happen. Maybe she's just trying to scare him. Lose never leave him. Then, she drops the bombshell: "That little phrase, 'It isn't you, baby, it's me.'"


Right now that the hardest part is off to the side, Jepsen's dinner can go smoothly so she breathes a sigh of relief. She offers this guy a proposition to remain cordial with a slight twist. "Let's be companions that never speak again/ It's cool, we can just pretend/ We're companions and never speak again/ See you soon, hope we can remain good companions she carols so sweetly on the chorus.

There are tears in the guy's eyes right now and he's downing some wine that he got sent to the table, nevertheless a bit of waterworks isn't going to prepare Jepsen change her mind. As if. She's also busy concentrating on this appetizing Chilean Sea Bass to care, savoring the warmth that she should have been getting from her partner.


She looks up to be able to see him staring off into the distance, wondering where everything went wrong. "I had a really nice time with you/ I mean, you're categorize kind of a dick some days she says, sipping on her wine, getting something out of her teeth, and then continuing. Although someone out there really is surely gonna love a dick/ Uh, check, please." They leave the restaurant a short time later in two vastly different moods; Carly's heading to jump for joy in her jammies while this bad guy's going to sit on the porch and reevaluate how he treats his partners.


"Let's Be Companions is Jepsen's first new song of 2020. She released her fourth studio album Dedicated last year.


Check out the dastardly break-up song "Let's Be Companions up above.