Carly Rae Jepsen's 'Emotion Side B' is too good for this world

Sorry, every single other pop star who dropped their album in 2016, but a handful of Carly Rae Jepsen's outtakes just became the year's most fun listen.

Jepsen's new Emotion Side B is eight tracks of "b-sides" from her 2015 album Emotion, an album that didn't propel her to the heights of Call Me Maybe, but won the hearts of fans and critics alike (including Paste BN, which awarded Emotion **** out of four stars).

And if you enjoyed the perfect pop songwriting and unabashed '80s nostalgia of her 2015 release, Side B's tracks are equally strong, making us wonder why they didn't make the cut.

The singer thanked devoted fans for making Side B possible in a letter she shared on Instagram.

"Emotion Side B almost never was," she wrote. "But meeting many of you face to face, getting to share in one of the most joyful touring experiences in my life, all I wanted was to give back more of the feelings you all gave me."

Side B is a modern statement of female sexual empowerment in which Jepsen spends much of the album singing about how she wants to share someone's bed, but not their heart. It supports the argument that Jepsen is the true heir to Madonna's pop throne, arriving during Britney Spears' own release week, no less. And it's an album that smokes the recent works from many of her more-famous pop peers.

Listen here:

And now, our official track-by-track review: