Owl City

Overview

I was first acquainted with Owl City when I listened to one of Triple J's best programs, the A-Z of Shit Music, and oh how I laughed. It appears that you don't have to listen to Owl City's records to form an immediate opinion, you just have to hear the lyrics. Why don't I treat you to some now? 'Cause I'd get a thousand hugs, from 10, 000 lightning bugs, as they tried to teach me how to dance.' Wait, hold on? What? What's a lightning bug, Owl City man, aka Adam Young? From what I can gather from YouTube videos, he sits behind a MacBook and speaks through a magical microphone with 500 voice filters built in. If that's not got you buying tickets for you and all your friends, he also has over 25 million hits on his MySpace, an amazing achievement... in 2007. Maybe Owl City is all about going back in time and making things cool again, like racing back to 2003 to steal The Postal Service's sound?

As Max Lavergne put it, “it's excruciatingly emo and not easy to listen to, but the truth rarely is”. And there you have it - I double dare you to attend the gig of the year, it will reignite your closet emo side, and most likely your hatred for them and the music they “create”.