I had heard it before, and knew that it's some terrible Postal Service ripoff shit with bad autotune, but tonight I actually listened to it.

Perhaps the cheesiest lyrics I've ever heard, and I've heard "I Just Called to Say 'I Love You'."

5/4/2010 4:21:18 AM

pls to youtube link since i have no idea what you're talking about

5/4/2010 4:22:47 AM

pls to youtube link since i have no idea what you're talking about

5/4/2010 4:25:36 AM

this really might be the worst song ever

5/4/2010 4:27:50 AM

ty, it does suck

5/4/2010 4:30:21 AM

Oh THIS song. I heard this in the conbini the other day and just assumed Deathcab for Cutie had taken the next step in pussification

5/4/2010 4:32:10 AM

I was pretty pissed when I heard it. I was like "is that a new Postal Service song or something" and someone was like "NO, IT'S OWL CITY, OMG DUDE."

It's like they took the few good things about Postal Service and then piled in a bunch of crowd-pleaser lyrics and a softly playing orchestra to make it sound less trashy in face of the autotune.

Yea, it's pretty fucking awful and it's so popular it hurts.

5/4/2010 4:32:36 AM

this, however, is a fantastic mashup.

5/4/2010 4:35:51 AM

hahaha that's awesome

5/4/2010 4:38:39 AM

it's not as good as the original joc song

5/4/2010 4:40:37 AM

holy shit, thats straight up theft, they sound exactly like postal service

5/4/2010 5:47:56 AM

yea pretty much. song is wayyyyy overproduced and the lyrics

5/4/2010 6:49:44 AM

I've never understood the appeal, even to idiots.

5/4/2010 6:56:05 AM

The appeal of auto-tune?

5/4/2010 7:04:37 AM

i rather like the music itself...but then, i can appreciate most MUSIC

the lyrics are retardedly sappy...but then, that's what appeals to their audience and that's why they now have more money than any of us

*shrug*

5/4/2010 8:04:38 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTwJetox_tU#t=1m57s

5/4/2010 8:05:53 AM

i appreciated the music, too

when it was called "such great heights" and was being played by ben gibbard (who also sucks)

5/4/2010 8:06:28 AM

i love getting hugs from 10,000 lightning bugs

5/4/2010 8:12:32 AM

not a huge fan of b\gibbard, but such great heights was awesome

and this

this is just an amazing rip off, i cant believe this dude just yoinked their sound like that

5/4/2010 8:12:48 AM

honestly, i wouldn't mind if the dude just admitted it

but he's come up with this bullshit of, "well, the postal service only made one record, so maybe my record is the evolution of the postal service"

ignoring the fact that you can't be involved in the musical evolution of a band you're not in, that's the most pretentious way of dodging the ripoff label i can think of

when kurt cobain was accused of sounding like the pixies, he flat out said he was trying to rip them off

that doesn't make ripoffs any better, i suppose, but kurt cobain also had 10,000 times the songwriting talent of this lightning bug hugger

5/4/2010 8:21:54 AM

Quote :

"i appreciated the music, too when it was called "such great heights" and was being played by ben gibbard (who also sucks)"

tr00f

i have to admit, though, part of me really likes this song, regardless of the theft and shitty lyrics it makes me want to DAIN

Quote :

"lightning bug hugger"

you just made me spit out my coffee from laughing

5/4/2010 8:23:23 AM

Quote :

"i love getting hugs from 10,000 lightning bugs"

Personally I think that sounds terrifying having 10,000 insects crawling all over you. It's like something straight out of that book Prey.

5/4/2010 8:24:20 AM

also, that video is pretty fucking horrible...

HAY GUYSE LET'S SHOW LITERAL REPRESENTATIONS OF EVERYTHING HE IS SINGING ABOUT
THAT WILL BE AN AWESOME VIDEO

5/4/2010 8:27:38 AM

hahahahaha wow

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aKO0vJL2hs

listening back to back its even more

5/4/2010 8:28:07 AM

Yep that gets a

5/4/2010 8:29:08 AM

did you guys forget my Owl City/Postal Service cover band thread from like a year ago?

5/4/2010 8:29:16 AM

this thread just makes me miss the postal service

5/4/2010 8:29:59 AM

it's worth pointing out that i first heard this song when tschudi was like "who the fuck is owl city and why are people constantly calling schoolkids to get tickets for him"

but i didn't listen to it until last week at a deserted BK

nothing like shitty food and a lack of people watching to focus your attention on the smarmiest, most disingenuous song ever

and if it's not disingenuous, the guy is just incredibly lame

also, it occurs to me that the younger generation may never know which of their pop stars can actually sing, because their voices will either be pitch-corrected with technology of ever-increasing subtlety or DRENCHED in autotune beyond all recognition

5/4/2010 8:31:43 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvSY4NYkySM

5/4/2010 8:32:33 AM

i, too, thought of "100,000 Fireflies" (an infinitely superior song) when i heard that stupid fucking line

also, i didn't actually watch the video

but the only other clip i can think of that shows everything in the lyrics is "down under" by men at work

5/4/2010 8:34:13 AM

http://tww.harbl.net/music/Fireflies Goin Down.mp3

i felt like the mashup that simonn posted needed to be posted as an mp3, since it's so awesome
so here's the 320kbps version.

5/4/2010 9:08:16 AM

i made it through 30 seconds before being overcome with the need to poop.

That song sucks so hard it makes me want to shit.

5/4/2010 9:11:20 AM

i love a few months back when the whole "men at work" plagiarism thing was making news and they had to pay a bunch of money or something. Anyway, Chris Walla had this to say:

"The Men at Work plagiarism verdict is garbage, they got robbed. Related: Owl City should really consider buying Ben [Gibbard] a pony."

Quote :

"did you guys forget my Owl City/Postal Service cover band thread from like a year ago?"

No I remember that, because that was the first time my ears were subjected to this

[Edited on May 4, 2010 at 9:21 AM. Reason : ]

5/4/2010 9:16:20 AM

^^ Coincidentally, I had the same thing happen to me.



Is this the infamous Brown Note exposed?!

[Edited on May 4, 2010 at 9:19 AM. Reason : had to shit like a mug]

5/4/2010 9:19:26 AM

When I first heard that song, I immediately checked what to see if Postal Service had released a new single.

5/4/2010 9:20:09 AM

Quote :

"nspired by the song, which includes the line 'He just smiled and gave me a Vegemite sandwich...', and by the yacht crew's win, the prime minister of the time, Bob Hawke, gave the entire country the day off and declared that any boss who fired an employee for not turning up for work 'is a bum'. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1248394/Band-Men-Work-rapped-plagiarism-Down-Under-No-1-hit.html#ixzz0mxzGtneF"

5/4/2010 9:20:11 AM

either way, owl city is selling out moderately sized venues now, with live nation backing

i saw postal service once (WITH SOME TWWERS) at go! room 4 back in like, 2001 or 2002, which held like 120 people.

granted it's terrible, but it's what little girls want to hear right now

and what little girls want, little girls parents buy

'tis no different than it's always been.

rip off someone elses sound a few years later, make profit.

5/4/2010 9:23:09 AM

I am cursed with this song. It follows me everywhere. If I go anywhere that plays muzak or has "easy listening" music or whatever playing, this song will come on. Last time I got my haircut it was playing. When I was waiting in the lobby at H&R Block a few months ago. One of my gay friends (He literally likes men, I'm not just calling him gay cause he likes this song) has it as both his ring tone and the ringer on his phone so that when I call him it plays the song instead of making a standard phone ringing sound. They even play it when I'm bowling. I can't escape it.

5/4/2010 10:05:42 AM

This is melodyne not autotune retards

I'm AstralAdvent and i approved this message.

5/4/2010 10:45:49 AM

Man this song makes my ears cry. I absolutely hate it. My husband's 11 year old brother is in love with it if that tells you anything. Make it go away!

5/4/2010 10:49:10 AM

Fuck this annoying bitch, maybe he wont sound like such a pussy when his non-existent balls drop.

^He must have a crush on this... hermaphrodite?

5/4/2010 4:41:01 PM

terrible terrible song

5/4/2010 4:47:00 PM

try the dubstep remix

Owl City - Fireflies (Etubbs & Trillbass Insomniac Remix ft Catt)

awesome!

5/4/2010 4:48:16 PM

Wow, one of the worst songs I've ever had the misfortune to listen to.

5/4/2010 4:52:04 PM

You can all suck my left nut.
I <3 Owl City and I <3 Postal Service.
And that dubstep remix is pretty rad.

5/4/2010 4:53:41 PM

never heard it till just now. i hate you all.

5/4/2010 5:12:09 PM

ew owl city.

and anyways this thread reminded me of:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oz1ST5WTTVw

5/4/2010 5:14:30 PM

Quote :

"LIGHTNING BUG HUGGER"

5/4/2010 5:18:50 PM

Never heard of this and now I will pretend I still haven't.

5/4/2010 5:20:39 PM

A lot of organ playing for not a single organ sound in the song

5/4/2010 5:27:06 PM