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Please kindly link to the songs that you have written and performed for comparison.
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Electronica Artist Owl City/Adam Young Designed iOS 7 Sounds [Updated]
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Guy posting anonymous hate on an internet message board criticising other people for their talent.... film at 11.
Please kindly link to the songs that you have written and performed for comparison.
I am pretty Owl City indifferent but what I have heard of his voice, is he's talented. Sometimes, people use autotune as a musical tool in and of itself rather than covering up bad singing. Adam Young uses it as a synthesized instrument to accompany some of his songs.
And of course some of his lyrics aren't mature adult oriented... he targets teeny bops from what I understand.
Do you trash children book authors too?? geesh.
He seems to be good live? I think the autotune sound is only added to the studio versions and it does sound good.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSoWGKzn7rU
Anyway interest fact to know
He seems to be good live? I think the autotune sound is only added to the studio versions and it does sound good.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSoWGKzn7rU
Anyway interest fact to know
Lyrics notwithstanding, he's talented as a musician. I get his lyrics aren't one that many adults would connect with but it takes talent to compose a poem to music and make it catchy enough for a large segment of fans to appreciate it and even love it enough to purchase it and give Mr Young a career doing it. Sure he's not the best in music and I doubt he'd believe that he is. He just thinks he's an artist doing something he loves while being paid solid money doing it.
I'm curious what the critics on this thread have done in their selected field that they perceive as talented so we can compare with the rest of their field.
This guy has been around as an artist for a bit longer than you might know.
And I've apparently been around for a lot longer than a lot of you because I've never heard of Owl City or this guy.
Agreed that there's something for everyone. But you all are acting like this guy is the second coming of John Lennon or hell, Justin Timberlake. To be considered famous, don't you actually have to be known? I listen to a lot of music, know my stuff pretty well...and I've never heard of him or the group.
I see I struck a nerve with the Owl City fan club
Apparently so. So this is synth crap and autotune? So they do something akin to house music? Seriously...never heard of any of them.
I think it would have been cool if they asked a specific electronic music record label to make their sounds as opposed to one person. I'm sure a label like Kompakt, Mothership, Axtone, Ultra, or Pryda and friends could have turned out something amazing by having a variety of talented people contribute.
One thing I've notice that improved in iOS 7 with ringtones, is I think they loop now without breaks, whereas before they used to have a pause. I'm not 100% that is the case, but I think I noticed the last time a ringtone played out, which makes for better ringtones IMO.
One thing I've notice that improved in iOS 7 with ringtones, is I think they loop now without breaks, whereas before they used to have a pause. I'm not 100% that is the case, but I think I noticed the last time a ringtone played out, which makes for better ringtones IMO.
he's always been a poor man's Ben Gibbard / Postal Service.
Apple has officially lost its cachet.
They should have hired Oneohtrix Point Never or Jon Hopkins.
And you still would have had people saying that Apple lost it's Cache. Funny how you can't please everyone.
So in order to offer an opinion on music, one must themselves be a musician? That's silly.
He doesn't like Owl City . . . so what? Plenty of critics don't care for him, either. See, e.g., Rolling Stone's review of "Ocean Eyes."
Taste in music is so subjective, you need to come to terms with the fact that many will hate what you love.
I thought it was a break off from Postal Service when I first heard it. Glad I'm not imagining things. If Apple had let this go, that would be the end of it, but since the post has been removed, doesn't that help to confirm it?
He doesn't have an ounce of talent, or the music he makes isn't to your liking? I personally don't enjoy pro wrestling, but those people are still talented in their own right. I could never perform the acrobatics they do.
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Hahahaha, I'm pretty damn gay and wouldn't mind it if he was part of our community, though I'm pretty sure all the love songs he's written for ladies would be proof enough that he isn't.
Now that would have been something.... imagine the faces (and ears) of people if a Foetus ringtone blasted out?!
Kudos to the Owl bloke for winning the gig, but his music and his tones I just don't get. Thankfully I can chuck my own on the phone.... now, where's that copy of Gash?
I really like "Playtime"! I set it as my default after listening to all of the ringtones, new and old.
He's not offering an opinion, he's just being abusive. There's no value in it.
I don't consider him as having any talent. There are plenty of people I can't stand music wise (Maroon 5 comes to mind as they are my second most disliked group, Owl City being #1) but I consider Maroon 5 talented because not only do they all play a plethora of instruments but their songs are different enough that you can tell they can do a broad range of music.
No I'm not. I specifically stated why I don't consider the guy talented. I'm sorry you and a few others can't seem to comprehend that.