Inside Music with Katie Hasty

Owl City and Carly Rae Jepsen 'Good Time' video is squeaky-cute: Watch

Single will appear on both artists' forthoming albums

By Katie Hasty Tuesday, Jul 24, 2012 12:52 PM

Carly Rae Jepsen and Owl City

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Sonically and thematically, Owl City and Carly Rae Jepsen's "Good Time" occupies the space between Miley Cyrus' "Party in the U.S.A." and Katy Perry's "Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)." And it's accompanying music video is as predictably squeaky clean as fans have come to expect from Owl City mastermind Adam Young.

It's all Slurpees, fishin' poles and daisy chains for Young's band of marauding Hollister models and from "Call Me Maybe" star Jepsen's flower children's children. I need a toothbrush and a rare steak after all that sugar.

"Good Time" is the first single from Owl City's forthcoming "The Midsummer Station," due on Aug. 21... but also on Jepsen's sophomore album, out some time in September. Twice the butterfly kisses and fireside dance parties!

What Prince song do you think Young has stuck in his head? I'm guessing it's not "Soft and Wet," "Dirty Mind" or "Sexy M.F."

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If there is a bigger turd than Owl City, I would like to hear it (or not). The lyrics from the majority of his songs are pretty much jibberish.
July 24, 2012 at 2:11PM EST Reply to Comment
- Platy-person His lyrics are abstract, so you actually have to think about them since the meaning isn't said straight out. The song fireflies talks about his troubles with insomnia. Even though it sounds like jibberish, if you think about it as a similie or a metaphor, you will see that Owl City's songs do have meaning.
  July 24, 2012 at 7:35PM EST