I Don’t Know Why But I Hate ‘Owl City’ So Goddamn Much
UGH!! Fucking HATE that ‘Fireflies’ song. And all the rest of that crap.
Maybe it’s the cheesiness. Yeah, it’s definitely the cheesiness. And how the cheesiness pulls you into a suffocatingly heavy blanket of cheap, fuzzy feelings - like drowning in your own spewy mix of stomach acids and aerosol Velveeta after way too many episodes of All My Children. Owl City makes me want to eviscerate myself. Twice. God.
On a more technical front, I feel like the melodies, albeit catchy, fall way too easily into the established note progressions category. Way too major key, way too 1-3-5 chord progression with very slight modifications… though don’t quote me on that since I’m hella not a music theorist. Just… it’s too easy, and not innovative enough. It’s like a children’s song that’s so basic and easy to follow that no matter how hard you try you just can’t keep it from sticking to the walls of your skull. Like that Lamb Chops ‘Song That Doesn’t End’.
On an established artistic movement front, Owl City already got completely ripped as a badly done Postal Service rip-off. A should be has-been rehash by any right, but then again, new is old and old is new in the refurbished movements of Consumerist culture. Like, we’ll totally be digging on boy bands again in less than ten years, I swear. Just gotta let it pass through the public psyche until the new target cohort becomes of ripe age….
In conclusion: Owl City = music for gushy preteens
