In the same pattern as Emotion: Side B, Dedicated Side-B was released a year after Jepsen’s fourth studio album Dedicated and contain songs cut from the 2019 album. Jepsen also pushed merchandising on her website to support this 80s summer-loving and cohesive album.
Carly said this about the album on her website:
I’m releasing the b-sides to my album Dedicated – I had always hoped that I would be able to share more songs because I had written some 200 for this project. I wouldn’t say this b-sides album feels any less important to me than the original album. When quarantine happened, there was still some polishing to do – it was a little tricky to finish an album in quarantine, but I think we’re all adapting to it.
– Via The Guardian (2020)