The Loveliest Time is the seventh studio album by Canadian singer Carly Rae Jepsen, released on July 28, 2023, by 604, Schoolboy and Interscope Records.

In February 2020, while embarking on The Dedicated Tour, Jepsen began collecting ideas for her sixth studio album.

Her creativity was stimulated by the COVID-19 pandemic, prompting her to transform an old office space in her Los Angeles residence into a home studio.

Jepsen said that the album was "sort of the completion to The Loneliest Time", adding that the songs were inspired by "fantasies" about being able to "travel again and fall madly in love and live life like it's an adventure.

[19] Steve Erickson of Slant Magazine said the "more joyful, vibrant songs" act as a "sonic and thematic counterpoint" to The Loneliest Time,[18] but claimed that the album is "less consistent" than Jepsen's 2020 release Dedicated Side B. Pitchfork's Harry Tafoya wrote that "where The Loneliest Time was steeped in personal loss and pandemic malaise, The Loveliest is strutting and extroverted, drunk off new love and bracingly direct about desire", calling it "a solid counterpart to its sister album".