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Addictive song #2 from Owl City
Apr 28th
Owl City “The Bird and the Worm.”
Ok. This song could possibly be called “part 2 of Fireflies” (because it just sounds like some producer said “hey can we cut out three and ½ minutes of that 7 minute firefly song you wrote and call it something and release it as a song?”).
But. It is just as addictive as Fireflies.
Now. I may have been tempted to call it something other than “The Bird and the Worm” but what the hell. This kid wrote most of these songs in his basement so he can call them anything he wants.
Anyway. If I was right about Fireflies being addictive (and I was as it worked its way to numero uno at one point) I am gonna be right on this one.
It’s fun. It’s catchy. It’s incredibly easy to listen to. It doesn’t have that same infectious hook that Fireflies has, but it is so frickin’ listenable all the way through its sickening. Happy. Bounces along and kind of makes you feel good about life.
“You and I left all our troubles far behind but I still just had one more question in mind”
It ain’t Mozart. It ain’t even U2. But is sure is addictive and fun to listen to. I can almost guarantee it will become a radio regular in the near future.
Addictive Song of the Month
Dec 9th
“Fireflies” by Owl City
(Although I am not convinced it isn’t just the Postal Service guys under a different name.)
Owl City is one guy and a synthesizer and a basement (geez. Sounds like Postal Service. Or Depeche Mode).
Anyway.
Fireflies is addictive. Addictive in the way Edie Brickell and New Bohemians “What I Am” was. (and the Fireflies video is eerily like the What I Am video).
If I were a betting man I think it’s gonna be on my one-hit wonder list some day. It has all the feel of a one-hit wonder. Now. Don’t get me wrong. I love this song. It is catchy and easy to listen to. Kind of frivolously happy (in an “All I Wanna Do” Sheryl Crow kind of way). The difference to me is the synthesizer songwriting of Owl City versus a Sheryl Crow or Dave Mathews kind of writer. Okay. So Depeche Mode kind of beats this theory but there were a lot of drugs involved there and their music has never been construed as frivolously happy.
I know I haven’t heard anything else from Owl City. My guess is I would find one other song on the cd that was kind of cool. But for now it is one hit and it is FRICKIN ADDICTIVE.
Hey. I hope this guy proves me wrong. Until then I will happy listen to Fireflies.
