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.
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.