"Run Away with Me" is a song recorded by Canadian singer Carly Rae Jepsen for her third studio album, Emotion. It was written by Jepsen, Mattias Larsson, Robin Lennart Fredriksson, Oscar Holter, Shellback, and Jonnali Parmenius and produced by Mattman & Robin and Shellback. The track premiered on Spanish radio Hits FM on 17 June 2015 and was released as the album's second official single on 17 July 2015. "Run Away with Me" was accompanied by a DIY music video filmed by Jepsen's then-partner David Kalani Larkins in Paris, Tokyo and New York City, which also premiered in July 2015. The song was only a minor success in the charts, but received very positive feedback from music critics.
Composition
"Run Away with Me" is written in the key of F major in time with a tempo of 120 beats per minute. The song follows a chord progression of B–Dm7–Csus–G7sus, and Jepsen's vocals span from F3 to D5. The song features a prominent saxophone riff in the introduction which later became an internet meme.
Critical reception
"Run Away with Me" received universal acclaim from music critics:
Spin magazine referred to "Run Away with Me" as "the best pop song of 2015 yet", "an undeniable hit waiting in the wings for its moment", and a "big, bold, beautiful masterpiece".
Paper magazine hailed the song as "just as much the pop perfection that is 'I Really Like You'" and "the perfect anthemic summer jam".
USA Today welcomed "Run Away with Me" as "a marked improvement over ".
Time magazine wrote of the track, "'Run Away With Me' marries euphoric Swedish dance-pop with a pressing nostalgia for your teenage years, a time when the littlest crushes felt like time bombs and a time Jepsen is really, really, really skilled at evoking. In that sense, it’s 'Teenage Dream 2.0', right down to a bridge so catchy she has to repeat it twice".
Rolling Stone ranked "Run Away with Me" at number 49 on their year-end list of the 50 best songs of 2015.
Village Voice named "Run Away with Me" the 11th-best single released in 2015 on their annual year-end critics' poll, Pazz & Jop.
Pitchfork ranked it at number 36 on their 200 best songs of the decade list, saying that "fueled by a yearning saxophone riff and colossal drums, Jepsen gleefully repeats her heartfelt invitation until the rest of the world melts away. “Over the weekend, we could turn the world to gold,” she murmurs with a quiet devotion, letting the image of two gilded lovers linger in the air."
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Commercial performance
"Run Away with Me" did not repeat the major commercial success of the previous single and only made a minor impact on the charts. It reached the top 30 in Czech Republic, Slovakia and Scotland, and briefly charted within the top 100 in the UK, Ireland, Canada and Australia.
Music video
The "Run Away with Me" music video was released on 17 July 2015 on Jepsen's YouTube and Vevo channels. It was directed by her then-partner David Kalani Larkins and consists of guerrilla -style footage filmed on three different continents. Larkins accompanied Jepsen on tour, casually filming a personal footage of her, which later developed into creating a music video. The clip pictures the singer in the Place de la République, Place Charles de Gaulle and on the Eiffel Tower in Paris, in Shibuya Crossing and a karaoke bar in Tokyo, and in New York City where she is seen running along the fountain in Columbus Circle and pointing at the Statue of Liberty from a boat in New York Bay. The clip also sees Jepsen in hotel rooms, airports and on public city transport.
This song was used in the tenth episode of the fourth season of Mr. Robot entitled '410 Gone'. Jepsen also re-recorded the song in the fictional Simlish language for.
