Beware’s back with another oddball pick for Gotty™ and his offspring to joyfully drive around bumping together. Found by a friend cruising late night on the FM, “Fireflies” is a quirky little dreamscape of oscillating optimism by Minneapolis’ own one-man-band Owl City and if it’s blossoming forest of synthetic sound and pure innocence can’t put a smile on your face upon first listen you’re musical tastes have probably become too gully for your own good.
Like it or not, I have a feeling you’ll end up hearing it regardless.
Download — Owl City – “Fireflies”
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I liked this shit better when Postal Service made it.
My roommate and his girl have played this song roughly 3,352 times in the past three days. Still trying to warm up to it.
But actually, the dude’s not from Minneapolis. He’s from Owatonna, Minnesota, which is what Owl City refers to. Course, most non-Minnesotans have never enjoyed all that Owatonna, the pride of Highway 14, has to offer.
for some reason the site has always been slow with me, ive been through different computers, browsers, everything. its always a hassle to post which is why i rarely do it.. but i went through this today so i could respond with this.
fuck outta here.
GAY!
with that being said the production’s not bad…now about that subject matter….
Lame.
i heard this track for the first time yesterday i think its pretty dope
This shit is corny as fuck. I listen to other genres besides rap regularly so I always like these type of posts but man, this shit right here is bad
I’ll give it a listen..
I heard this a few weeks back via a dear friend, liked it very much.
Lol, that man tombout “I went thru all this trouble” just so he could say some negative shit?
Get the duck sick & save your clicks next time, crumb.
Didn’t get to listen to this yet but I will. Looked it up earlier & it’s charting so there must be some appeal to it.
If not, I can always go back to Empire of The Sun lol.
I heard this track a couple weeks ago on the radio, and I was like wtf?? Are they actually playing a NEW postal service song on the radio?? It was either that, or some major swagger jacking was going on…I figured the latter, and it seems I was right…smh
I can’t figure out which one was better…
A) “for some reason the site has always been slow with me, ive been through different computers, browsers, everything. its always a hassle to post which is why i rarely do it.. but i went through this today so i could respond with this.
fuck outta here.”
or
B) “GAY!”
I’ll go with A. Good stuff.
ALSO, i just want to add that all these people yelling corny, like they ain’t ever heard pop music before, are probably the ones who bang half these corny ass fucking rappers who do the same EXACT thing through a different perspective.
it’s called making a catchy song.
eat it up, get over your self-depreciation and enjoy the music.
Not quite my cup of coffee. But I can see the appeal. I wouldn’t be surprised to hear this all over the pop stations.
I liked this shit better when Postal Service made it.
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basically
@jesse h
thats because there is nothing to offer in owatonna, mn
I guess I’m just that gully.
Gully forever!
Yoo… I stumbled upon this site while looking for links for the new season of Curb Your Enthusiasm. It’s got every single tv show you can think of available for download:
http://mostlyseries.blogspot.com/
not my site, but it’s verrry dope. And the quality is amazing.
ps anyone have links for the i-tunes bonus for Attention Deficit?
snap, crackle, POP! I can dig it.
my jumpoff digs it
#1 song in radio right now. (it’s more than charting)
I liked this shit better when Postal Service made it.
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basically
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and this^
This is kinda gay.
Also Gotty, I have a similar slow-loading problem a lot with this particular layout of the site. There’s always a ‘transferring data’ message in the bottom status bar, whether I view with Firefox or IE.
gotty be actin funnystyle lately…if you dont agree with his opinion/taste go fuck yourself basically…
but then again this is the house that gotty built and we are just mere visitors.
gotty be actin funnystyle lately…if you dont agree with his opinion/taste go fuck yourself basically…
but then again this is the house that gotty built and we are just mere visitors.
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Because there’s a selection of folks who bitch, moan and complain no matter what we put up. Not directed @ you sir, but fuck all that. Everybody busts their collective asses to keep this joint moving fwd, trying to change the pace up, share shit, etc. But we post item A. and group B. ain’t happy. Post shit from C. and group D. ain’t happy.
So i decided…
1. Talk shit? I’ll talk it right back.
2. Fuck’em. I didn’t start out thinking “what will they like?” and I’m not going to take it into consideration now lol.
and yeah this song fucking sucks.
Pitchfork gave this song a 1
Postal Service already did it
I love this place i lurked for a long time before i joined the collective fold and often i do come off as one of the ass hole-ish posters but its all in the name of getting a good balanced debate 90 percent of the time…the other ten percent im just hatin too lol.
it s just sometimes it comes off real cocky or arrogant would be a better word when you be constantly tellin cats to kick rocks when they’re opinion of whats hot dont coincide with yours, I aint trying to get baby paw status so Im gonna STFU but sometimes that shit urks me a little bit…but still I wouldnt have it any other way this blog has the most articulate and well seasoned posters of any site I fucks with(including my own)I just wanted to explain why i came off so condescending in my last post.
Again, I’m directing @ you or anyone in particular b/c I can’t say that any one person “attacks” a post. Paw’s an ass 40% of the time lol.
it s just sometimes it comes off real cocky or arrogant would be a better word when you be constantly tellin cats to kick rocks when they’re opinion of whats hot dont coincide with yours
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You do realize it’s my opinion (nothing more) that I’m writing about. And their most articulate response is “that sucks!” And I should respond to that how lol?
You all are so used to me/us not saying anything in response, I woke up & figured “fuck that” lol. We’ll just get wreckless up in here, run some people off and be back to a core 1k/day, which wouldn’t really be a “bad” idea.
You do realize it’s my opinion (nothing more) that I’m writing about. And their most articulate response is “that sucks!” And I should respond to that how lol?
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lol, gotty you called homeboy a crumb then dismissed him you totally demasculated dude…but i hear you though his post while funny was rather nonconstructive…Ive never seen someone narrate his own post like that.
enh, he’ll be okay lol.
Sticks and stones…..
it’s some haters in this house
it’s some haters in this house
if you see ‘em, point ‘em out
if you see ‘em, point ‘em out
lol
why do folk go out of their way to post up some bullshit response? if it was people who posted all the time maybe it would have been better received. but to just say, ‘yo, i don’t really post but, uh, this shit sucks!’ sheeeeeit, i’ll tell dudes to eat seven thousand we-we’s and die [(c) pimp c] too.
These MTV vids don’t cater for international audiences.
So derivitive. This is a textbook example of just writing shit to rhyme. And if you are going to auto-tune yourself so I think you can sing then why not change up the whole tone a bit so you don’t sound exactly like the Postal Service(unless that was the plan).
I love the melodies and the ‘softness’ of FireFlies. I arranged it for orchestra – and it translated well. This song is awesome.
The song blows. Find meaning in the lyrics if you want, the dudes voice makes him sound ridiculously homosexual and the music to the song is no better than a pile of trash. Over all Owl City is a dumpy ass band. :)
CAN I GET AN AMEN?!
even if you dont like his music you dont have to swear at him poor guy im only ten and my brother (4) has now learnt how to swear thanks!