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Electronica Artist Owl City/Adam Young Designed iOS 7 Sounds [Updated]
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Because Postal Service is already terrible. I've never heard of Owl City, but if that's true, he must reek.
Nobody that has ever professionally analyzed talent agrees with this. 100% subjective.
Claiming someone's opinion has been "stated as a fact" ought to be a bannable offense. What ****.
This kind of music is why REAL people hate nitwit teens and 20-somethings running around blasting their garbage ringtones. Lovely.
i'm sure you just forgot to add "in my opinion" at the end of your statement there...
and in my opinion.. you are so wrong about the postal service.. please do tell why you believe they are "terrible"? and what are some of your favorite artists.. just out of curiosity...
This is why you don't run Apple. Apple has successfully executed a total revamp of one of the world's most popular operating systems without shooting themselves in the foot (like Microsoft has, with Windows 8 and Metro). You might think that the rich Corinthian leather texture on the Calendar app is awesome, but that's not the point. The operating system needed a change, and that's what happened.
But, I'm sure you don't get that.
And for the rest of you Owl City haters, please go ahead and post a link to music you've composed and performed that's better. I'll be looking.
my point is, the sounds don't fit the aesthetic. i'd be embarrassed to have most of those alert sounds go off in public. thank god i can make my own.
Sorry to the fans out there but that song is auto-tuned to death. Apple is using this guy? What has happened to Apple's integrity?
I disagree. Prior to iOS7 ringtones were distinctive and sometimes even funny (Robot). The new ringtones all sound like the same "We take ourselves serious now, you know?" new age noise.
Agreed. The sounds on iOS 6 and OS X suck. Especailly compared to Windows / Windows Phone.
I think you'd be surprised at how many artists use auto tune these days, if only slightly since they can't hit the notes.
I don't care for his music either. I could barely finish the album because it was so monotonous, and I think in general most people thought it was too. Haven't listened to his new stuff, besides that one with Carly Rae Jepsen, for that reason either.
But I like the sounds in iOS 7. Some people are throwing out names of better people to do it... Apple had a deadline, and this is a finished product that is going into millions and millions of iOS devices all over the world. This isn't a project you give to a DJ to finish out in the middle of Australia during a tour. And you couldn't give it to an indie who had little knowledge of the mainstream. You don't want someone who's completely burnt out either.
So I think Adam was their best shot, especially as they were scrambling to get iOS 7 finalized. It's so refreshing to hear something other than the Marimba ringtone.
I don't care for his music either. I could barely finish the album because it was so monotonous, and I think in general most people thought it was too. Haven't listened to his new stuff, besides that one with Carly Rae Jepsen, for that reason either.
But I like the sounds in iOS 7. Some people are throwing out names of better people to do it... Apple had a deadline, and this is a finished product that is going into millions and millions of iOS devices all over the world. This isn't a project you give to a DJ to finish out in the middle of Australia during a tour. And you couldn't give it to an indie who had little knowledge of the mainstream. You don't want someone who's completely burnt out either.
So I think Adam was their best shot, especially as they were scrambling to get iOS 7 finalized. It's so refreshing to hear something other than the Marimba ringtone.
I think the tones are a vast improvement over previous iOS tones BUT Fireflies by Owl City really makes me want to punch someone. I listen to pretty much only dance music in its various guises but this song will never have a place in my music library. The lyrics are just appalling - sounds like a nursery rhyme.
Ideal for insomnia sufferers out there. Sheer dirge. Cheeky sods paying this "artist". Good bluffing there, mate. If you can get paid for farting about on your dad's keyboard. Do it!
I'm sorry but you're wrong. Perception of talent IS opinion just like I stated. Some of my friends think I'm super talented at painting, I know I'm not and so do some other friends. Right there I just proved your theory wrong.
When someone writes lyrics like "Case I'd get a thousand hugs, from ten thousand lightning bugs as they tried to teach me how to dance" I don't consider them lyrically talented.
When someone creates melodies that are barely hummable, I don't consider that talented.
When someone writes songs that sound EXACTLY like all of their other songs I don't consider that talented I consider that a one trick pony.
Why is it so hard for people to see that we all have varying perceptions of talent?
Again, I will reiterate MY perception: The guy is not talented.
It is all nice, but I wish they would come up with a ringtone named "Silent." Starting with my mortgage bank where I have never been late but robocalling me 2 weeks before overdue, and a rash of other spam calls from other marketing companies, I have added them to contacts with a special z- so they stay buried at end. Have to give them some ringtone, but there is no such thing as a silent one, so I elect the least obtrusive. Perhaps I have to make one.
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I can't understand how anyone with a basic grasp of English wouldn't get this point. But then, this is the internet...
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No, they're not.
He can play a musical keyboard, therefore he is talented.
