Carly Rae Jepsen‘s music is so sugary sweet that it is an overload, a rush of serotonin to the brain. Her performance Monday night at the Fillmore Silver Spring was one of the best shows of the year, as Jepsen is a professional at the top of her game in a crowded house.

The audience, unlike most pop shows, skewed older, as Jepsen makes pop music for adults. While most know the singer from her viral hit “Call Me Maybe,” the album which followed, Kiss, was less of a novelty—a confident pop record mining 80’s sounds, much like Taylor Swift would do on 1989 just two years earlier. This year, Jepsen released her third and best album E-MO-TION, and she played not only the entirety of the album, but three bonus cuts as well.

Jepsen doesn’t trade in sex appeal. Like her “Call Me Maybe” video, Jepsen is more the girl next door. Her stage outfit screamed business casual, and like a great workman, Jepsen earns top marks. She, along with her band (featuring a guitarist, drummer, bassist, keyboardist, and two backup singers), started the night with the sax-blasted “Run Away With Me” and kept the bangers coming. It is very rare to see a show that goes hit for hit without a single misstep or moment to turn away.

Though a pop concert, Jepsen’s stage had no flash, no confetti cannons, and pretty standard lights, focusing all the attention on the songs. Jepsen isn’t much of a dancer, but like the song goes, she “Didn’t Just Come Here To Dance.” Monday night’s show proved why Carly Rae Jepsen is a pop queen and why E-MO-TION is the best album of 2015. Marble mouthed rapper K.Flay opened, and while she didn’t impress, she did keep the sign-language interpreter busy trying to decipher whatever she was saying.