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General => The Arts => Topic started by: Daddy on November 22, 2009, 02:39:32 PM

Title: hai guys i noo owl city before it was popular
Post by: Daddy on November 22, 2009, 02:39:32 PM
http://www.facebook.com/pages/I-Knew-That-Song-Before-It-Was-Popular/171898323844?ref=sgm

90% of the posts in this group are "Owl City"

CLEARLY IF THAT MANY PEOPLE KNEW OF HIM HE WAS POPULAR BEFORE THEY THOUGHT.

AND THAT ISN'T A FUCKING SONG
Title: Re: hai guys i noo owl city before it was popular
Post by: YPrrrr on November 22, 2009, 02:45:50 PM
Augh I'm just tired of hearing about them altogether
Title: Re: hai guys i noo owl city before it was popular
Post by: Daddy on November 22, 2009, 02:46:56 PM
Quote from: YPR on November 22, 2009, 02:45:50 PM
Augh I'm just tired of hearing about them altogether
I pride myself on never hearing any of his songs. spam;

Also, lol at some guy claiming that he knew Kid Cudi's Day 'N Nite back in 06 when it was recorded in 2007.
Title: Re: hai guys i noo owl city before it was popular
Post by: Minus; on November 22, 2009, 02:52:17 PM
owl city isn't really special its okay
and kid cudi's day 'n nite is a song that did not deserve all the popularity it got
it wasn't anything special i think it sucked actually
Title: Re: hai guys i noo owl city before it was popular
Post by: Samus Aran on November 22, 2009, 03:48:26 PM
well, owl city was "popular" on myspace before it became "popular" everywhere else, so yeah those people saying they knew him before he was popular probably just mean they knew him when he was just a myspace star

hensa actually used to talk to him on msn a lot, so that's cool i guess
Title: Re: hai guys i noo owl city before it was popular
Post by: Geno on November 22, 2009, 03:49:48 PM
Quote from: Lain on November 22, 2009, 03:48:26 PM
well, owl city was "popular" on myspace before it became "popular" everywhere else, so yeah those people saying they knew him before he was popular probably just mean they knew him when he was just a myspace star

hensa actually used to talk to him on msn a lot, so that's cool i guess
Tell hensa to give me his screen name.  akudood;
Title: Re: hai guys i noo owl city before it was popular
Post by: strongbad on November 22, 2009, 04:15:29 PM
I stopped listening to Owl City after every girl at my highschool started listening to him.. It made him feel a lot less special to me :(
Title: Re: hai guys i noo owl city before it was popular
Post by: Samus Aran on November 22, 2009, 04:38:06 PM
Quote from: GUOB on November 22, 2009, 04:15:29 PM
I stopped listening to Owl City after every girl at my highschool started listening to him.. It made him feel a lot less special to me :(


you seriously stop listening to something just because it becomes popular? doodthing;
Title: Re: hai guys i noo owl city before it was popular
Post by: Daddy on November 22, 2009, 04:43:50 PM
Quote from: Lain on November 22, 2009, 04:38:06 PM
you seriously stop listening to something just because it becomes popular? doodthing;
lol
Title: Re: hai guys i noo owl city before it was popular
Post by: Samus Aran on November 22, 2009, 05:36:07 PM
Quote from: JMV on November 22, 2009, 04:43:50 PM
lol


is that a lol in agreement

but yeah if i were to discourage strongbad from listening to owl city it would be because he sucks, not because he's popular
Title: Re: hai guys i noo owl city before it was popular
Post by: spaceman on November 22, 2009, 06:06:08 PM
POSTAL SERVICE FOR PRETEENS

*runs out of thread*
Title: Re: hai guys i noo owl city before it was popular
Post by: Samus Aran on November 22, 2009, 06:56:06 PM
Quote from: fluxus on November 22, 2009, 06:06:08 PM
*runs out of thread*


doodthing;
Title: Re: hai guys i noo owl city before it was popular
Post by: Sillbury on November 22, 2009, 07:10:49 PM
is that a smiley only post is see?!

let the controversy begin
Title: Re: hai guys i noo owl city before it was popular
Post by: ?????? on November 22, 2009, 07:36:11 PM
Quote from: fluxus on November 22, 2009, 06:06:08 PM
POSTAL SERVICE FOR PRETEENS

*runs out of thread*
i liked them as a preteen

OH MY GOD WHAT I'M I COOL I MUST KNOW
Title: Re: hai guys i noo owl city before it was popular
Post by: Skylark on November 23, 2009, 12:01:25 AM
owl city is awful. no matter when you liked him
Title: Re: hai guys i noo owl city before it was popular
Post by: strongbad on November 23, 2009, 12:17:30 AM
Quote from: Lain on November 22, 2009, 04:38:06 PM
you seriously stop listening to something just because it becomes popular? doodthing;

I actually still listen to him, but I don't really enjoy it as much. I agree that it's stupid but whatever.
Title: Re: hai guys i noo owl city before it was popular
Post by: Veal on November 23, 2009, 12:27:59 AM
Owl City is not a Postal Service ripoff. That's a huge affront to Postal Service. Does everyone just say that because Postal Service is the only other electronica group they've heard of?

Maybe him and LIGHTS will get married and produce the ultimate in trite electrosynthpop ballads, him sighing out strung together words about nothing just because they rhyme and her kind of whispering into the vocalizer about all the break-ups she never went through.
Title: Re: hai guys i noo owl city before it was popular
Post by: Geno on November 23, 2009, 01:08:38 AM
Quote from: Lain on November 22, 2009, 05:36:07 PM
is that a lol in agreement

but yeah if i were to discourage strongbad from listening to owl city it would be because he sucks, not because he's popular
fuck you
Title: Re: hai guys i noo owl city before it was popular
Post by: Geno on November 23, 2009, 01:12:00 AM
oh and while it's annoying that everybody listens to him now that he was on MTV I still think not listening to him altogether is a little silly.
Title: Re: hai guys i noo owl city before it was popular
Post by: Daddy on November 23, 2009, 03:23:01 AM
Quote from: Veal on November 23, 2009, 12:27:59 AMDoes everyone just say that because Postal Service is the only other electronica group they've heard of?
this whole time i thought it was because the guy from owl city sounded like a crappy version of ben gibbard
Title: Re: hai guys i noo owl city before it was popular
Post by: Veal on November 23, 2009, 03:27:46 AM
Quote from: JMV on November 23, 2009, 03:23:01 AM
this whole time i thought it was because the guy from owl city sounded like a crappy version of ben gibbard

well I don't know why you thought that because HE TOTALLY DOESN'T
Title: Re: hai guys i noo owl city before it was popular
Post by: Daddy on November 23, 2009, 03:29:11 AM
Quote from: Veal on November 23, 2009, 03:27:46 AM
well I don't know why you thought that because HE TOTALLY DOESN'T
oh sorry a shitty version. baddood;
Title: Re: hai guys i noo owl city before it was popular
Post by: Veal on November 23, 2009, 03:42:48 AM
Quote from: JMV on November 23, 2009, 03:29:11 AM
oh sorry a shitty version. baddood;

NO HE JUST SOUNDS LIKE A SHITTY VERSION OF ADAM YOUNG
Title: Re: hai guys i noo owl city before it was popular
Post by: sans culottes on November 23, 2009, 05:01:07 AM
Owl Shitty
Title: Re: hai guys i noo owl city before it was popular
Post by: Wrench on November 23, 2009, 05:47:25 AM
10 million fireflies
Title: Re: hai guys i noo owl city before it was popular
Post by: Samus Aran on November 23, 2009, 05:52:19 AM
Quote from: Veal on November 23, 2009, 12:27:59 AM
Owl City is not a Postal Service ripoff. That's a huge affront to Postal Service. Does everyone just say that because Postal Service is the only other electronica group they've heard of?


Yeah I don't get the Postal Service for preteens vibe either, really. If anything, Owl City is an electronic version of Never Shout Never, who Hensa also enjoys and I despise.
Title: Re: hai guys i noo owl city before it was popular
Post by: Geno on November 23, 2009, 10:21:37 AM
Quote from: Wrench on November 23, 2009, 05:47:25 AM
10 million fireflies
lit up the world as a fell asleep
Title: Re: hai guys i noo owl city before it was popular
Post by: Wrench on November 23, 2009, 10:55:05 AM
Quote from: GENOP on November 23, 2009, 10:21:37 AM
lit up the world as a fell asleep

cause they'd fill the open air
Title: Re: hai guys i noo owl city before it was popular
Post by: YPrrrr on November 23, 2009, 11:48:58 AM
The only Postal Office song that reminds me at all of Owl City is Such Great Heights... Which is one of their more well known songs, so I can only assume that's where the comparison comes from
Title: Re: hai guys i noo owl city before it was popular
Post by: the shortest route to the sea on November 23, 2009, 12:30:55 PM
Postal service, Aubrey.

Postal service.

I refuse to see them as childish and preteeny. It's dreamy, sure, but the music is a lot more mature.

I music group I was in at an arts camp did a version of Such Great Heights...with handbells. It was probably the most beautiful thing I've ever taken part in.
Title: Re: hai guys i noo owl city before it was popular
Post by: YPrrrr on November 23, 2009, 12:35:01 PM
Quote from: Alyssa the Glowing Sole on November 23, 2009, 12:30:55 PM
Postal service, Aubrey.

Postal service.

I meant that, I like them, I don't know why I made that mistake >.<
Quote from: Alyssa the Glowing Sole on November 23, 2009, 12:30:55 PM
I refuse to see them as childish and preteeny. It's dreamy, sure, but the music is a lot more mature.

I music group I was in at an arts camp did a version of Such Great Heights...with handbells. It was probably the most beautiful thing I've ever taken part in.
Also, he was saying Owl City is the preteen version of the Postal Service, meaning Postal Service is the more mature one hocuspocus;
Title: Re: hai guys i noo owl city before it was popular
Post by: the shortest route to the sea on November 23, 2009, 12:35:42 PM
Oh!





I shouldn't read Girly and Boyah at the same time.
Title: Re: hai guys i noo owl city before it was popular
Post by: Samus Aran on November 23, 2009, 02:30:09 PM
Quote from: Alyssa the Glowing Sole on November 23, 2009, 12:35:42 PM
I shouldn't read Girly and Boyah at the same time.


You mean...this Girly?

(http://img241.imageshack.us/img241/9818/girly158fz6.gif)

If so, cool, I used to read that like two years ago.
Title: Re: hai guys i noo owl city before it was popular
Post by: strongbad on November 23, 2009, 04:17:16 PM
Quote from: Alyssa the Glowing Sole on November 23, 2009, 12:30:55 PM
Postal service, Aubrey.

Postal service.

I lol'd so hard at this and I don't even know why.
Title: Re: hai guys i noo owl city before it was popular
Post by: the shortest route to the sea on November 24, 2009, 03:18:55 AM
Yeah, that one. Shit has hit the fan.
Title: Re: hai guys i noo owl city before it was popular
Post by: Veal on November 24, 2009, 06:50:28 AM
Didn't it turn into a porno?
Title: Re: hai guys i noo owl city before it was popular
Post by: the shortest route to the sea on November 24, 2009, 10:53:30 AM
Quote from: Veal on November 24, 2009, 06:50:28 AM
Didn't it turn into a porno?


It was always about lesbians. No, it's never been, though it's purposefully bordered on it sometimes ("OUR ATTACKS ARE JUST MAKING THEM SEXIER!"). One of his other comics is directly pornographic.
Title: Re: hai guys i noo owl city before it was popular
Post by: Houdini on November 26, 2009, 01:35:23 AM
Quote from: Alyssa the Glowing Sole on November 24, 2009, 10:53:30 AM
It was always about lesbians. No, it's never been, though it's purposefully bordered on it sometimes ("OUR ATTACKS ARE JUST MAKING THEM SEXIER!"). One of his other comics is directly pornographic.
That's the reason I never got into that comic. I went to the Girly website and clicked a few links and apparently the author draws a bunch of porno? And is a man? My poor, delicate virgin eyes did not need to see any of that.
Title: Re: hai guys i noo owl city before it was popular
Post by: the shortest route to the sea on November 26, 2009, 03:39:30 PM
Quote from: Houdini on November 26, 2009, 01:35:23 AM
And is a man?


That part made me sad. The porno, less so but still kinda like awwww.
Title: Re: hai guys i noo owl city before it was popular
Post by: Bushy on November 26, 2009, 04:05:27 PM
Quote from: justjack on November 22, 2009, 02:52:17 PM
owl city isn't really special its okay
and kid cudi's day 'n nite is a song that did not deserve all the popularity it got
it wasn't anything special i think it sucked actually
You're so weird. You would have needed to know that state of rap around the time that song came out. It changed some shit
Title: Re: hai guys i noo owl city before it was popular
Post by: Houdini on November 26, 2009, 04:08:59 PM
Quote from: Alyssa the Glowing Sole on November 26, 2009, 03:39:30 PM
That part made me sad. The porno, less so but still kinda like awwww.
Sad? How so?
Title: Re: hai guys i noo owl city before it was popular
Post by: the shortest route to the sea on November 26, 2009, 04:13:02 PM
Quote from: Houdini on November 26, 2009, 04:08:59 PM
Sad? How so?


It's hard to fine lesbianism by lesbians for lesbians. It's always these male cartoonists, and no matter how much of a great job they do (i.e. here), I have a sense of...betrayal? Or at least a lack of comfort. There are very subtle points where he just frustrates me and makes me think he isn't expressing his female characters to the range they could be

Whereas policeguy and chuy have wonderfully fleshed out storylines and characters, and seem to make sense all around. It's a minor thing, usually it doesn't bother me.

Then again, it takes a very very skilled man with a good sense of character to write a body-switching arc for a cast of more than 10, without the aid of voice acting.
Title: Re: hai guys i noo owl city before it was popular
Post by: Samus Aran on November 26, 2009, 04:59:20 PM
it was about 6 strips into that body-switching arc that i quit reading the comic altogether, just forgot about it i guess
Title: Re: hai guys i noo owl city before it was popular
Post by: Houdini on November 26, 2009, 05:06:13 PM
Quote from: Alyssa the Glowing Sole on November 26, 2009, 04:13:02 PM
It's hard to fine lesbianism by lesbians for lesbians. It's always these male cartoonists, and no matter how much of a great job they do (i.e. here), I have a sense of...betrayal? Or at least a lack of comfort. There are very subtle points where he just frustrates me and makes me think he isn't expressing his female characters to the range they could be
That's the reason why I don't read Girly. I'm interested in what a female has to say about the experience of being a lesbian, not some random guy's underinformed sexual fantasia. It just made me a little irritated but mostly disappointing. I want to find someone who actually writes female characters with at least much depth as male ones.
Title: Re: hai guys i noo owl city before it was popular
Post by: the shortest route to the sea on November 26, 2009, 05:20:37 PM
Quote from: Houdini on November 26, 2009, 05:06:13 PM
That's the reason why I don't read Girly. I'm interested in what a female has to say about the experience of being a lesbian, not some random guy's underinformed sexual fantasia. It just made me a little irritated but mostly disappointing. I want to find someone who actually writes female characters with at least much depth as male ones.


Strauss.
Title: Re: hai guys i noo owl city before it was popular
Post by: Houdini on November 26, 2009, 05:24:33 PM
Quote from: Alyssa the Glowing Sole on November 26, 2009, 05:20:37 PM
Strauss.
I'm afraid I'm not exactly sure who you're talking about.
Title: Re: hai guys i noo owl city before it was popular
Post by: Samus Aran on November 26, 2009, 05:27:52 PM
oh, and just to keep this thread kind of on-topic: owl city sucks lol
Title: Re: hai guys i noo owl city before it was popular
Post by: the shortest route to the sea on November 26, 2009, 06:02:44 PM
Strauss' operas are filled with, for the most part, virtuous and expressive and iconoclastic and well-developed women surrounded by a few good men and very many bad ones.

Just to keep it music-related.
Title: Re: hai guys i noo owl city before it was popular
Post by: Houdini on November 26, 2009, 06:29:36 PM
Quote from: Alyssa the Glowing Sole on November 26, 2009, 06:02:44 PM
Strauss' operas are filled with, for the most part, virtuous and expressive and iconoclastic and well-developed women surrounded by a few good men and very many bad ones.

Just to keep it music-related.
Oh, that Strauss! I'll look into his work. There are a lot of Strausses out there and I wasn't sure which one you meant. Thanks for the tip.