My love for the Jep is deep and profound – this song proves she loves me back (and herself).
If you’re not already a Carly Rae Jepsen fan (or you think her career began and ended with Call Me Maybe), I won’t waste words and time here trying to convince you. I suspect you’ve missed the boat, and the rest of us on the boat are having too much fun to worry about it.
Jep is back this fall season with one of the least coded and most positive songs I’ve ever in my life heard about masturbation. Party For One is a bop, through and through, and its transparent language about finding a path to loving yourself and getting ‘back on your bate beat,’ is refreshing change from other recent pop releases.
If you haven’t heard it (or like me, hadn’t seen the video until I started composing this post) I highly recommend you take a minute and watch it and listen to what she’s saying:
If you weren’t keeping track, that video featured 1. everybody in their underwear, 2. a glass butt plug, 3. a two-ended dildo, 4. a pair of edible candy panties, and a Murder, She Wrote Bath* gone very arwy. (*Murder, She Wrote baths are long tubtime adventures where you watch M,SW and eat pizza. I’ve never gotten my food into the tub with me, though).
We all get there by different paths. I like jacking off in the tub with pizza, maybe you like something else.
In celebration of CRJ’s celebration of making love to yourself, here’s a collection of GIFs to help you learn the words. Hit play on the video again, and scroll through the lyrics while you watch:
Party For One
by Carly Rae Jepsen
If you didn’t know that you were right for me
Then there’s nothing I can say
Tried to call you out to spend some time to see
But somebody’s in your way
Tried to let it go and say I’m over you
I’m not over you
But I’m trying
Party for one
If you don’t care about me
I’ll just dance for myself
Back on my beat
I’ll be the one
If you don’t care about me
Making love to myself
Back on my beat
You don’t want my love
If you don’t care about me
I’ll just dance for myself
Back on my beat
Party for one
If you don’t care about me
Making love to myself
Back on my beat
Ahh, ahh, ahh
Once upon a time, I thought you wanted me
Was there no one else to kiss? (No one else to kiss)
Was it all a dream I let myself believe?
I’m not over this (I’m not over this)
But I’m trying
CHORUS 2X
Ahh
Back on my beat
Back on my beat (ahh)
Party for one (ahh)
(Back on my beat)
Back on my beat
Back on my beat (ahh)
Party for one
Ahh
All gifs are gently borrowed from The Masturbator’s Scanctum. If I’ve used your image and you’d like it linked/credited/removed, give a shout.
Party For One, indeed. Sploosh.
-t