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Like “Gangnam Style,” the way everybody was hyping this song, quoting it and parodying it for a couple of months made it seem a little oppressive. (Cookie Monster’s “Share It Maybe” on Sesame Street might have been the last straw.) The arrangement is incredible, though, with synthesized orchestral strings playing a tense pizzicato loop through the verses and stabbing around Carly Rae Jepsen’s voice like fireworks on the chorus. Jepsen is a subtly fantastic vocalist too: check out the way she spins every phoneme in the line “And all the other boys/ Try to chase me.”