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Jeremiah Johnson's avatar

I am deadly serious in my efforts to convert The Argument readers to Carly Rae Jepsen stans. E*MO*TION is unmatched brilliance.

Nick's avatar

It’s an incredible album wall-to-wall, and there are songs that I still can’t believe didn’t make it big as re-released singles or something. She’s insanely talented

Alex Eastman's avatar

I gifted my teenage cousin Emotion on vinyl for Christmas a couple years back, and when I saw her parents at a recent family gathering, they told me she’s been hyping it up to her friends and said Jepsen is an “underrated” artist. An album so good, even too-cool-for-school teens can’t deny it!

Ben's avatar
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It's a little charming to learn that people 200 years ago were sophisticated enough to understand that extraordinary weather patterns weren't supernatural in origin, but then rationally concluded that the cause must be enough soldiers firing muskets in Europe to blot out the sun.

Kenny Easwaran's avatar

They actually got pretty close! They figured out that the explanation for low temperature and weird pollution in the snow must be lots of smoke in the upper atmosphere, so they tried to figure out what event in the past year could have caused it. I guess they didn’t know about the volcano so they guessed the big thing they did know about.

Andrew's avatar

Please proofread your article. When there are stupid typos it makes you wonder about the quality of the commentary. Maybe this is one legitimate use of AI.

The infamous “year without a Summer” was 1816. Not 2016. You are 2 centuries out.

Eli Richman's avatar

Thanks for the correction! We have updated the article to take the typo out.

Mike Cobb Writer's avatar

BTW - I believe the photo caption has a typo:

“Two Men by the Sea” by Caspar David Friedrich, 1817, depicted the dark skies that followed Mount Tambora’s 1815 eruption. The aftermath of that explosion resulted in the infamous “year without a summer” in 2016.

2016? Don't you mean 1816?

Eli Richman's avatar

We did! Thanks for the correction. We have updated the post