"Beach House"
An overhead photo of a crowd of beachgoers and multicolored umbrellas
Single by Carly Rae Jepsen
from the album The Loneliest Time
ReleasedAugust 5, 2022
GenrePop
Length2:30
Label
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
  • Alex Hope
  • SameSame
Carly Rae Jepsen singles chronology
"Move Me"
(2022)		 "Beach House"
(2022)		 "Talking to Yourself"
(2022)
Music video
"Beach House" on YouTube

"Beach House" is a song by Canadian singer-songwriter Carly Rae Jepsen, released August 5, 2022, by 604, Schoolboy, and Interscope Records as the second single from her sixth studio album The Loneliest Time. The song was written by Jepsen, Alex Hope, and Nate Cyphert, and produced by Hope and SameSame.[1][2]

Style

The New York Times's Lindsay Zoladz says that on the "cheeky earworm" "Beach House", "Jepsen employs her deadpan sense of humor as she lists off the red flags and deal-breakers that marred relationships with 'Boy No. 1' to 'Boy No. I Can't Keep Count Anymore'", "effectively tap[ping] into the romantic frustration of endless, Groundhog Day-esque first dates and long-term singledom."[3] The Fader's David Renshaw notes that the song "takes its title from a date idea by someone Jepsen explains she has matched with on an app" and includes the singer "detail[ing] the notoriously tumultuous landscape of Tinder et al", including "disappointment in a man whose mum made the picnic they ate together and another potential partner who, of course, turns out to be married", all centered on the chorus lyric "I got a beach house in Malibu and I'm probably gonna hurt your feelings".[4] Mxdwn.com's Federico Cardenas notes that the chorus has backing vocals all sung by men.[5]

In an interview with Crack's Ilana Kaplan, the writer described "Beach House" as "the antithesis of the soothing ambience of "Western Wind"", "one of the singer's most playful tracks", and "a campy pop anthem that finds Jepsen and her bandmates larping as boys going on bad dates." The song "features some of [Jepsen's] most absurd lyrics", with the singer saying "It was the shortest straw-pull for who had to sing, 'I've got a lake house in Canada, I'm going to come harvest your organs.'" Kaplan concludes that "while the track veers toward being lighthearted, there are harsh realities within it", with Jepsen saying "I wanted to highlight that feeling when you're disenchanted after [being on] a dating app for a hot minute to be like, 'That guy's just going to... he's going to wreck me.'"[6]

Rankings

Year-end rankings for Beach House
Publication List Rank Ref.
Time Out TimeOut's 22 Best Songs of 2022
11

Personnel

  • Carly Rae Jepsen – lead vocals, songwriter
  • Alex Hope – songwriter, producer, guitar, synthesizer, programming
  • Nate Cyphert – songwriter, backing vocals
  • Mitch McCarthy – recording and mixing engineer
  • Chris Allgood and Emily Lazar – mastering engineers
  • Rob Cohen – programming
  • Ben Romans, Bobby Wooten, Jared Manierka, Joey Hendricks, and Tony Marino – backing vocals

Charts

Chart performance for "Beach House"
Chart (2022) Peak
position
Japan Hot Overseas (Billboard Japan)[8] 11

References

  1. ↑ Rettig, James (August 5, 2022). "Carly Rae Jepsen - "Beach House"". Stereogum. Retrieved August 7, 2022.
  2. ↑ Moreland, Quinn (August 5, 2022). "Carly Rae Jepsen Shares New Song "Beach House"". Pitchfork. Retrieved August 7, 2022.
  3. ↑ Zoladz, Lindsay; Caramanica, Jon (August 5, 2022). "Carly Rae Jepsen's Brand-New Boy Problems, and 7 More New Songs". The New York Times. Retrieved August 7, 2022.
  4. ↑ Renshaw, David (August 5, 2022). "Carly Rae Jepsen finds herself in a disastrous dating loop on "Beach House"". The Fader. Retrieved August 7, 2022.
  5. ↑ Cardenas, Federico (August 5, 2022). "Carly Rae Jepsen Shares Anthemic New Single "Beach House"". Mxdwn.com. Retrieved August 7, 2022.
  6. ↑ Kaplan, Ilana (May 8, 2022). "Cover story: Carly Rae Jepsen: More Than a Feeling". Crack. Retrieved August 5, 2022.
  7. ↑ de Semlyen, Phil (December 6, 2022). "The 22 best songs of 2022". Time Out. Retrieved February 21, 2023.
  8. ↑ "Billboard Japan Hot Overseas – Week of August 31, 2022". Billboard Japan (in Japanese). August 31, 2022. Retrieved August 31, 2022.
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