THANK YOU, CARLY RAE JEPSEN
THANK YOU, CARLY RAE JEPSEN Alberto E. Rodriguez / Getty

I've never really understood why the indie music sphere considers Carly Rae Jepsen an underrated pop icon. "Call Me Maybe" on an endless loop is my version of hell, and none of the other songs on 2012's Kiss were quite hot enough to thaw my frigid heart, either. 2015's E•MO•TION has grown on me since its release, but it's still not my favorite pop music (blowing kisses to you, Demi).

BUT TODAY, EVERYTHING CHANGED. This morning Jepsen dropped "Cut to the Feeling," one of reportedly 250 (!) tracks that didn't make the final cut for E•MO•TION. It's three minutes and 28 seconds of perfect, victorious pop—the kind that will make you punch your fist into the air in the dairy aisle of Fred Meyer. Listening to this song feels like doing dance aerobics in a bounce house. Or like experiencing the season finale of your own life. Or like it's Lisa Frank's world and we're just living in it. Or like Jepsen made an offering to the great goddesses of the '80s—Belinda Carlisle and Cyndi Lauper, duh—and we're all being raptured from this hellscape we call Earth by the blessed power of music.

The Mercury already made a summertime playlist ("Suns Out, Buns Out), but I'm calling it. "Cut to the Feeling" is the song of the summer. Everybody else can go home.