That it was surrounded by sugarcoated pop bliss — the disco strings!
Never mind that by early 2011, technological advances had resulted in texting beginning to supplant calling as the chief getting-to-know-you conversational medium. Carly Rae Jepsen's winsome soprano and all-heart delivery of her bashful pickup line made "here's my number, so call me maybe" one of the decade's defining pop refrains. That it was surrounded by sugarcoated pop bliss — the disco strings! the hope-filled guitar line! Carly herself! — only made it more of a joyful singalong. — M .J.