Please use this thread to discuss Carly's latest single: Motivation.

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Stream Motivation:

• Spotify
• Apple Music
• YouTube Music
• Tidal
• Deezer
• Amazon Music

Watch the music video:

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• Tidal

For posterity…

Transcript:

> this will forever be one of my favorite songs i’ve ever released

Link to the post

Video: Ethel Cain - Misuse Oh - Asheville Yards 08/30/2025 The Willoughby Tucker Forever Tour

I downloaded the 4 videos posted by @carlyraeupdts and stitched them together, that's why there are sudden jumps 😞

EXCLUSIVE: In a significant threat to ad-funded shows, Spotify is testing a new feature in its app that will let users skip the ads in podcasts.

Full article here.

Playlist saved on Spotify.

New Community Moderator

Hi! I've just become a moderator of r/carlyraejepsen. There's a moderation queue so long it goes 2 4 years back so please bear with me as a I go through it. Once I'm done with the mod queue, I'm going to set up subreddit rules, photos, banner, helpful links and all that.

Spam Bots

I've noticed a lot of repost bots, if you come across one of them, please repost the post as Spam → Disruptive use of bots or AI, that way I'll be able to remove the posts and Reddit admins will suspend the account.

Suggestions

If you have any ideas or suggestions for the subreddit, please let me know! Suggestions for banner image or icon are more than welcome as well 🤗

Edit: the moderation queue goes 4 years back actually. The oldest filtered post was submitted in August 2022 🙃

Transcript:

>In 2018, I wrote down a passing thought in my cheap little leather-bound journal I was writing a collection of songs in that would go on to become Preacher’s Daughter. “If I finish this album the way it needs to be finished, it will change my life, and it will leave a hole in my heart for years that I won’t know how to fill.” I’ve always had a knack for eerily accurate self-premonition. Preacher’s Daughter certainly left a hole, and it certainly changed my life, but only on the outside. All the songs I wrote for it were about characters, a girl in a “faraway” place living her “faraway” life, albeit still parallel to mine, but wholly detached from me. Willoughby was doomed to be closer to home. I wrote Nettles and Waco the same week, the first week I spent in the Alabama house where I would finish Preacher’s Daughter after so many years of trying. The difference was I wrote them about me. There were no characters at first; it was just me. In fact, I wrote them in an attempt to hide from Ethel Cain for a moment. She eventually devoured those little ditties too, of course, as she always does. In hindsight, I’m glad I had to share them with her. I couldn’t have carried the full weight of them myself, I know that now. My premonitions were out in full force; over the course of the next few years, I’d script out my own life in the same morbid fashion I always have. Maybe it was a lesson in not training my eye downward as I’ve spent the majority of my life doing.
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>Thank you to everyone in my life who supported me, waited for me, kept me alive. I’ve never been more serious when I say I couldn’t have done this without you. Thank you again to everyone who listened. Ethel Cain and Willoughby Tucker will always be my children, my burnt offerings, what I leave in the storm. Sometimes I wish it didn’t have to be this way, but I also fear it’s the only way. Ethel Cain, Willoughby Tucker, I really will always love you. I feel as though in this moment here, saying goodbye, you and I are closer than ever. I hope you can forgive me.

Link to the post.

I've found this extension for Chrome and other Chromium-based browsers, Reddit to PNG, it lets you download images in PNG in good quality.

For example, I was able to download this cover in a 19.3 MB 3600x3600 PNG file, instead of a 243 KB 1800x1800 WEBP file.

Instructions:

1. Install the extension through the Chrome Web Store.
2. Open the Reddit post that contains the image.
3. Click on the image to expand it, or right-click and open it in a new tab (this makes the HQ file load).
4. Right click on the image and Save image as...
5. Save it to your device.