Carly Rae Jepsen & Owl City have a "Good Time"

If making a song that sounds like it's perfectly crafted for summer wasn't enough, Carly Rae Jepsen and Owl City just released a video for their collaboration, "Good Time" that looks tailor-made for the season. The summer pop jam serves as the lead single to Owl City's new LP, "The Midsummer Station," due out Aug. 21, and will also appear on Jepsen's much-anticipated sophomore album, out some time in September.
It only makes sense that Owl City's Adam Young is joined by Jepsen on a track that could become a radio staple for the rest of the summer. Sonically and thematically, "Good Time" goes down easier than a frozen margarita at a beachfront tiki bar. The summer anthem is a synthy and uplifting, out and out pop duet which will most definitely ensure that neither artist has to settle for a 'one hit wonder' tag. It would sound equally right blaring from a sandy iPod radio or out of monster speakers in a thumping dance club.
The video was shot in upstate New York earlier this month, and the shoot actually marked the first time Jepsen and Young had met in person. The "Call Me Maybe" songstress and "Fireflies" star recorded the track separately before it hit digital retailers on June 26, and netted each artist their second Top 20 hit on the Hot 100. The clip isn't exactly high concept, but for a tune as mindless and fun as "Good Time," it works. The 26-year-olds split slurpees and prove they can have a good time anywhere in this laid-back clip.
Taking place over the course of a sunny day and bonfire-lit night, the clip follows the twenty-somethings gather their good friends leave the haze of the city, and head out on the road for a camping adventure, hike through the forest with ambiance and smoke, replete with tents, and dance fireside. Night soon falls, but the fun doesn't stop when the sun goes down, as the song plays out in all its sing-along glory. The clip is as predictably squeaky clean as fans have come to expect.