da-da-da we ain't gonna live forever

Owl City Saturday, June 18, 2011 6:46 AM

In the past, I always thought that being a fan of a singer/band was the common part of growing up. I tried to find a singer or band to be a fan of but it did not work out and I got frustrated. The next thing I knew was I was listening to the radio and choosing songs to love despite who the artist was. 98.7fm was indeed a great place to listen to music and the very thing that got me started with Owl city.

Looking out for new songs under the “New this week” list was a routine for me each week. I admit that it is not the first time I listened to Owl city’s songs but this time round while searching for one of his latest hits “Deer in the headlights”, I wander a little further. I went to search for the meaning of this song on youtube. This landed me onto his video blog where Adam Young explain the inspiration and meaning behind each song in this upcoming music ablum – “All things bright and beautiful”. I was also curious, and went to view the video about his song Alligator sky.

After all this searching on the net, I found out that Young’s songs have really inspiring and creative lyrics. Lyrics that talk about chasing one’s dreams, the reality of life and death, and especially daydreaming. The lyrics are crafted like a piece of great literature. First time in my whole 18 years of my life have I scrutinize and infer an artist lyrics and in the mean time have so much fun. It exactly what the arts GP lecturer who did on The Arts said, you can look at the same picture a thousand times but all with different perspective and have a lot of fun, Really, indeed. I am getting rather disappointed with some of the singer’s song as it reflect ideals that I cannot come into agreeable terms with it and pretty meaningless.

The best part of Owl City is that Adam Young is really an inspiring christian that never fails to thank and glorify the Lord in the things he does. There is this sentance that is written at the bottom of the credits in his album, and it goes ,

"All praise and glory to Jesus Christ, to whom I owe everthing."

Amazing to see how God works in his life.
By the way, I bought the latest album "All Things Bright and Beautiful". Great joy to have it.

Mic3helle.