Owl City is still relevant in the music industry? Thought they died down after Fireflies :P

 

I think, due to Alligator Sky being on the Radio 2 playlist now, and the apparent success of All Things Bright And Beautiful in the US, he's crossed over to the albums chart.

 

Fireflies might just have been a one-off for him. Though I've heard a whole load of other stuff, which, while good, none of it is as commercial as Fireflies, with the possible exception of Umbrella Beach, which flopped anyway.

 

He has gained a bit of a fanbase though, but they're the album-buying kind.

Edited June 18, 201114 yr by Eyes

I had a friend at school who hated most chart music, but he was into a sub-genre of electronica called chip-tune, which is like 8-bit music, and he said Owl City uses something close to it in Fireflies. He likes Let It Go by Devlin/Labrinth and Ayo Technology by Timbaland/50 Cent for similar reasons.

 

So that might be where Owl City's fanbase come from. :lol:

Edited June 18, 201114 yr by Eric_Blob

Well, my brother is a certifiable Owl City loon. He owns all the albums, has pre-ordered the new one to arrive the day it's released (on physical), and plays all the tracks a lot. I really mean a lot. The first time he heard Vanilla Twilight, he played it around 40 times over one weekend. He also likes nearly every status Owl City makes on Facebook etc.

 

I like the guy, but not to that level.

 

So I know a little bit first-hand about his fanbase. :lol:

The concept of 'Owl City loon' simply DOES NOT COMPUTE.

 

(Having said that my sister is a bit of an obsessive OC fan, or at least she was around the time of Fireflies)

I would guess that they're a rare breed in this part of teh interwebz.

What can you classify Owl City as? I always classified it as electro-pop but some people say no...

Never really thought about it tbh. Probably pop, of some sort for me.