“Run Away With Me” by Carly Rae Jepsen

Carly Rae Jepsen picked "Run Away with Me" as single number two off E•MO•TION, the third album of her career, in the summer of 2015, and it's a dance-pop and synth-pop rush from the first bar. She wrote it with Oscar Holter, Shellback and the production team Mattman & Robin, among others. The calling card is a saxophone riff, played by Wojtek Goral and pushed through distortion and reverb until it blares like a siren.

Mattman & Robin produced it with Shellback and covered the drums, bass, guitar and percussion themselves, Serban Ghenea mixed, and the stacked backing vocals include Noonie Bao, Holter and Jepsen herself. Her then-partner David Kalani Larkins shot a DIY video in Paris, Tokyo and New York City, and critics have since ranked it among the finest songs of 2015, and of the whole 2010s.

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