<p>…I just heard it on the radio for the first time today :P</p>
<p>I enjoy owl city a lot. Hello Seattle and Vanilla Twilight…it is just so day dreamy it makes me relax a lot.</p>
<p>This song is on twice an hour every hour on the radio here in Minnesota. He’s being touted as the second-coming of Bob Dylan and Prince :rolleyes:</p>
<p>dont really like them</p>
<p>Not everyone who likes them likes them because they are “popular.” I like, don’t LOVE them or anything, but it has nothing to do with what anyone else thinks, just my personal preference. I hate when people just hate things if they’re popular. Popularity does not necessarily mean something is good OR bad. Just judge for yourself.</p>
<p>The first time I heard Owl City, I thought, wow, this sounds a lot like Relient K. Then I realized Matt Theisen was both of their lead singers… Good voice.</p>
<p>^Yeaa, I thought that too, referring to the Relient K connection. I like this song. It’s just so sweet. It makes me feel happy in the inside :)</p>
<p>“I hate when people just hate things if they’re popular.”
ugh, SAME. why do some people have the need to feel superior or some ***** just because they listen to ‘alternative’ music. i swear, half the time, those people are only doing it JUST so they can declare their alternative-ness.
abshdj, one of my pet peeves :P</p>
<p>I’m so out of the loop on things. I had no idea Owl City was popular. I try to avoid knowing anything about every artist I listen to. I don’t want to be prejudiced by other’s thoughts.</p>
<p>I have been listening to Owl City’s old stuff, and I liked it, but I never get around to ordering new music so I had no idea they had a new CD out. And by they I mean he. Anyway, I heard “Fireflies” on the radio the other day and thought it sounded quite familiar. I was told it was Owl City and I was surprised that he made it on the radio. I felt the same way when they started playing Matt Nathanson on the radio, but it was even weirder because they played “Come on Get Higher” like it was a new song even though it had been out for at least a year and a half. I don’t think Owl City is a Postal Service rip off, just because pretty much everything in that genre sounds the same - not a lot of variety to be had, especially to someone who doesn’t listen closely (for example, to me all hard rock and metal sound identical, but to the person who actually enjoys it…).</p>
<p>You guys know that there’s no such thing as good music, right? I mean, there’s no quantifiable difference between, say, Mylie Cyrus and Radiohead, Britney Spears and the Beatles, etc. It’s all in how music makes you feel.</p>
<p>If Owl City makes you feels as good as Miles Davis makes me feel, we both win. No further discussion or, God forbid, reevaluation of musical taste required. Anything further is elitist and boring.</p>
<p>^Well, that’s stupid.</p>
<p>Sure, listen to what makes you happy.</p>
<p>But people certainly have better voices and better instrumental skills and better production skills. If we say that, we can say that for any field–literature, movies. That would be so dumb. Certain things ARE better. </p>
<p>I’m not being “elitist.” I think you should still listen to what you want, but I wouldn’t EVER say “there’s no such thing as good music.”</p>
<p>Stop calling it a Postal Service rip-off; the guy said he barely heard them before. It’s getting old.</p>
<p>agreed with hellojan. it IS all relative. my dad would argue that the beetles or pink floyd is the best band in history…except for the fact that i don’t personally like either of them & nothing anyone says could <em>prove</em> that they’re the best.</p>
<p>That still doesn’t mean there there isn’t “good music.”</p>
<p>Sure, it’s subjective. But you can be objectively better in just pure vocal talent and instrumental skills, I think.</p>
<p>Lets agree that there is definitely a category of “Bad Music”. For there to be bad music, there must be something that it is bad compared to, i.e. good music.</p>
<p>I hope I’m not the only one surprised by how this guy is blowing up. I really like this band. It isn’t the best, but it’s a nice listen.</p>
<p>The only thing that I don’t like about Adam Young is that all his songs talk about the same topic. It’s always about nature and travelling, with some odd hints of love. The lyrics makes it seem like he tries too hard to make a song. It looks like a creative writing essay where every line is filled with imagery and metaphors. Yeah, a lot of songs may look like this, but maybe the auto-tune makes him sound more like a drone. </p>
<p>The Postal Service > Owl City any day though. Gibbard’s vocals are far superior. His sarcastic tone and understatements made in “We Will Become Silhouettes” just blow away any cheap and easy metaphor that Adam can come up with. </p>
<p>Compare:
“I wanted to walk through the empty streets
And feel something constant under my feet,
But all the news reports recommended that
I stay indoors
Because the air outside will make our cells
Divide at an alarming rate until our shells
Simply cannot hold all our insides in,
And that’s when we’ll explode
(and it won’t be a pretty sight)”</p>
<p>to</p>
<p>I wish I could cross my arms and cross your mind
Cause I believe you’d unfold your paper heart and wear it on your sleeve
All my life I wish I broke mirrors instead of promises
Cause all I see is a shattered conscience staring right back at me
I wish I had covered all my tracks completely
Cause I’m so afraid, is that the light at the far end of the tunnel or just the train
Lift your arms, only heaven knows where the danger grows
And it’s safe to say there’s a bright light up ahead and help is on the way</p>
<p>c’mon! Postal Service all the way! and Death Cab makes the candy even sweeter.</p>
<p>I will club over 9,000 baby seas because of this thread.</p>
<p>I first heard fireflies about a month ago and thought it was the weirdest song ever, but now the quirkiness of it has grown on me. Oddly enough the beat reminds me of pacman…</p>
<p>Music isn’t as subjective as you guys seem to think it is. Music is just a method of artistic expression, and there’s a reason why the comics that I doodle in my spare time, although enjoyed by my friends, are no A Starry Night.</p>
<p>Furthermore, I don’t dislike this because it’s popular, I dislike it because it’s bad. And I don’t go out of my way to avoid mainstream material, considering I have 3 Beatles albums, 3 by Daft Punk, 3 by Michael Jackson, 3 by Eminem, 4 by Kanye West, and 4 by Jay-Z.
I suppose you’d like some reasons why I dislike Owl City, and I will duly oblige:</p>
<p>Uncreative/Unoriginal/Generic
All of their songs sound exactly the same
Terrible songwriting (Yes, I understand the song, but that doesn’t make it any less nonsensical)
His voice is wholly computer generated
He caters to the “Myspace” generation, if you will, ripping off superior artists such as the Postal Service, and dumbing down their work enough to appeal to the masses</p>
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<p>I fail to understand why you can’t understand that, that is YOUR opinion. Thanks for sharing. Stop trying to indulge your opinions onto others jeez.</p>