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Minnesota multi-instrumentalist and "Fireflies" hit-maker Adam Young composes music like fast-food franchises pump out burgers: Whether you order the bacon deluxe or the triple-decker with cheese, it's always the same ingredients in slightly different configurations, and consuming it yields a strangely empty feeling almost immediately after. Admittedly, Owl City's simplistic, hook-laden electro-pop nails all the market-tested pleasure receptors with perfect accuracy, but anodyne vocals and greeting-card sentiments only underscore the dearth of originality and surprises. "Good Time," his current hit collaboration with Carly Rae Jepsen, makes "Call Me Maybe" seem edgy in comparison. - Kurt B. Reighley

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