Shooting Star (EP)

Shooting Star is the second extended play by American  electronica band  Owl City, released on  iTunes and other media outlets on May 15, 2012, through  Universal Republic. [1]  The extended play consists of four new songs that would also be on Young's subsequent album,  The Midsummer Station. Mark Hoppus, vocalist for  Blink-182 is featured on the song "Dementia".

Background
"I feel that as an artist you should never really look back or repeat yourself,"  Adam Young tells  Billboard during an interview. Young is currently planning for a new album to be released in the summer of 2012 and Shooting Star "is just to help build excitement... for the [new] record coming out." His second extended play "is kind of a preview, and I wanted to make sure the four songs on the EP gave sort of an accurate snapshot or a taste of what the new record is about." [1] ==Writing and development[edit] == <p style="line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;">Though Young stays true to his synthpop roots, the EP illustrates his efforts to create a polished and radio-friendly sound, dabbling heavily with European trance in "Shooting Star" and rock on "Dementia".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Billboard_interview_1-2" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[1]