One billion fireflies and counting! Adam Young of Owl City marks a huge milestone in his music career. Owl City, the alt-pop project of artist Adam Young, is celebrating a big milestone. In the ...

The internet is a place where one day you can be jamming your favorite throwback hit, and the next day it’s a meme to all of your friends. Back in 2009 Owl City released its breakthrough hit ...

Since the dawn of time (or rather, since 2009), mankind has been haunted by an important unanswered question: What do the lyrics of Owl City’s “Fireflies” mean? Specifically, the line “Cause I’d get a ...

In The Number Ones, I’m reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart’s beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. Book Bonus Beat: ...

If you've been on Twitter lately, you might have noticed a rejuvenated interest in Owl City's 2009 earworm, "Fireflies." While the reason behind it is, frankly, as mystifying as the song's nonsensical ...

Ah, “Fireflies.” The most awkward song to dance to at prom — and yet, a lasting gem of the 2000s. Owl City (aka Adam Young) whipped up a particularly strange lyric in his first hit single, which ...

Not long ago, at a local bar’s karaoke night, I saw some drunk bro perform “All Star,” the 1999 hit single by the American rock band Smash Mouth. Even with YouTube user Jon Sudano still diligently ...

It’s been just over 10 years since Ocean Eyes, a breakout record for electro-pop outfit Owl City, was unleashed on the world. Among the album’s plethora of synth-soaked cuts was “Fireflies,” a song ...

Amidst the bevy of irony-laced synths and AutoTuned hooks currently saturating the pop landscape, Owl City’s No. 1 hit “Fireflies” is a welcome refreshment. The phantasmagoric, electro-pop song… By ...

Throwback to 2009 when Owl City released their pop hit “Fireflies,” which lit up iPods with synthesized piano and some baffling lyrics. Though the song was released eight years ago, the anthem has ...

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