Listen Up: Call Carly Rae Jepsen radio ready

Tiny Little Bows, the opening track on Canadian singer Carly Rae Jepsen's second album, starts by quoting Sam Cooke's Cupid -- a nod, perhaps, to the undying strain of sweet romanticism in pop music.

Jepsen's coquettish voice doesn't have Cooke's supple soul, but the tentative vulnerability she conveys in her confectionary hit, Call Me Maybe, more than makes up for it.

Jepsen, who works with Max Martin, Toby Gad and Matthew Koma on Kiss (* * * out of four), doesn't always lay herself open the way she does in Call Me Maybe. Much of her album is prefab dance-pop.

But when she does -- say, on More Than a Memory, when she sings "You know that night I almost said I loved you? You almost said it back" -- the results are exquisite.

There's not another hit like Call Me Maybe. But there's enough substance to ensure she's more than a one-hit wonder.