I'm going to have to disagree with your pick for worst line in fireflies. To me, there aren't many dumber phrases than "I'm weird cause I hate goodbyes." No one likes goodbyes, I have no idea why this makes him weird

The line "why do i tire of counting sheep, while I'm too tired to fall asleep" is also particularly awful

BORING

WOW, that's bad.

Who cares... we'll all be at muse/silversun pickups!!! GOD:hahahahaha

Actually, I woke up in Seattle's mouth once, so I can relate.
BTW, you might want to look up what mixed metaphors actually means.

Oh, damn it, I forgot -- so I'm lost, does The Postal Service then suck as well? Imitation, flattery, the whole drill, you know. I just want to be sure I say the right things when I meet Terminal Taxi — "Isn't is lame how Young ripped off your lameness?" that kind of thing.

Wow, so much for journalism.

While it may not be the most original music in the world, it's still good music. Yeah, it was made with a synthesizer, in a basement, by one person. I didn't even read the whole review, I read the 'wwhhiiiiiinnneee!!!' line at the beginning of each paragraph, scanned through the rest of the whhhhhaaaaaa!, and I still didn't see anything in here of any worth other than you being upset that one very successful artist sounds like another successful artist. What it sounds like the most is... and I hate to say it.... jealousy. Yeah, jealous that it wasn't you making crap music on what is basically a toy, and tittilating millions with it.


Music snobs have no place reviewing music, because they don't understand music. They just understand that a lot of people like something, and those people must be stupid if they disagree with you since it's just not your thing. Believe it or not, just because something isn't 'your thing' doesn't mean it's bad music. If you hate rap, you can't say that all rap is bad, you simply don't have the capacity to appreciate it (even though most rap anymore is mostly samples of other songs). And if you're just upset that it's like another artist, then you should probably quit your job (is this a job?), because almost EVERYTHING is a rip off of something else anymore, even if someone isn't trying. As far as sound goes, the Postal Service sound would have been discovered and overplayed at some point by someone else. You can go back to tunelessly strumming your guitar, while reciting the emo poetry in your moleskine journal down on Hawthorne.

I'm not a huge fan, but damn, have some objectivity.

God is dead, and the universe is uncaring.

proof:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9woqyxU-LlA

Hey! all my 6th grade students love Owl City! You know their good when a bunch of 11 year olds like them, right?!

whoops - i mean they're, not their. i wouldn't even say anything but i know a bunch of people would jump down my throat since i'm a teacher.

@mollymaverick

I am not a music snob. Owl City is shit and this review is dead on. The only good that can come out of this is if it wakes Ben Gibbard and Jimmy Tamborello up enough to make a new Postal Service record to show everyone how awful Owl City is.

Okay, so to reiterate, Owl City sucks because he/it ripped off a side project, the value of which is unclear except that it was done by a band whose value to the writer seems only to lie in that it gives him the opportunity to rip on Owl City, unless, of course, The Postal Death Cuties are actually valuable, in which case, Owl City has picked the right side project to steal from like, say, every other musician in the history of the world has done at some point, unless of course, all other musicians worth listening to have never, ever stolen anything, God bless America, thank you Willie Zeppelin and Led Dixon uber alles.

I first heard this song on a drive home from the Oregon Coast. I was so offended by the lyrics/sound that I had to wake my girlfriend up so she could here just how terrible it was. Clearly an attempt to mooch off of the success of the Postal Service.

the thing people fail to mention in the owl city debate is that postal service were really shitty too.

yay no one cares what you think.... His songs might not make any sense but its better then other songs which pollute the world with vulgar sexual inuendos... Or is that what you rather this world become... (an immoral place filled with people saying cuss words every other line...) I particularly like Owl City and so do about 3 million or more other people so whatever.... And your terrible use of an hyperbola really should be excluded from this article as God would not torture us through ethical and fun-loving singing... Bye now! :) lol