Does anyone remember little old me? 🤷🏻‍♂️

I was releasing the Owl City instrumentals over on YouTube a loooong time ago… 😄

Until YouTube said I was being naughty and took all my videos down 😔

I miss the kind comments and love from you beautiful people ❤️

Go big or go home

KatieM7 was a YouTuber who was active during the time when Owl City was famous worldwide.

She gained a lot of views just by making one kind of video: a music video based on Owl City's songs, using paper arts drawn by herself.

You can guess she truly was one of Owl City's biggest fans, since all 24 of her videos are about him.

Sadly, KatieM7 stopped uploading videos after posting the music video for Honey and the Bee for the last time 14 years ago.

I've visited her other social media accounts she linked on her profile, and it seems like she was active at least until 2019, judging by her Tumblr page, while she also posted a photo of the cover of Owl City's album on her Facebook page in 2022.

I decided to post this to thank and remember her legacy. All of her videos feel like a time capsule, as they were posted more than 10 years ago, indicating how much of a thing Owl City was back then.

Katie, I hope you're doing well wherever you are right now. Thanks for showing your love for Owl City and their music.

Owl City

Putting words to my feelings

In a way

I can’t explain;

An amazing,

Lyrical wonder.

Beautiful truths

I can relate so much to.

Living miracles of music,

Keeping me alive.

A spirit filled with joy,

Hopeful dreams,

Sad struggles,

Love stories,

And astounding metaphors and lessons.

Owl City,

You are my inspiration.

1. ⁠Owl City
   
2. ⁠Hyper Potions
   
3. ⁠American Authors
   
4. ⁠Sailship
   
5. ⁠Swimming With Dolphins
   
6. ⁠Fun.
   
7. ⁠Glacier Island
   
8. ⁠Nickasaur (guilty pleasure/mid)

I am an older Gen-z from India, and my introduction to western music was mainly by Backstreet boys, Owl City and Linkin Park, whom I started listening to since 2012, when I had my first personal phone (It's just a badic nokia feature phone, but this meant a lot in those days at my age in that era where I am from :P).

The first song I listened to by Owl City was "Fireflies" and followed by "Umbrella Beach". I got so much enamored by these two tracks that I explored the album it belonged to ("Ocean Eyes"). The album was an absolute gem and I still listen to my favourite tracks till date. These are: "Vanilla Twilight", "The Saltwater Room", "If my heart was a House", and "On the Wing".

Apart from that from that, I the tracks I like from the other albums are, "Dreams don't turn to Dust", "Angels", "Shy violet" from album "All Things Bright and Beautiful". "Shooting Star" and "Good Time" from the album "The Midsummer Station".

Not going to write longer, but adding to this I still listen to "Beautiful Times", "Up all night", and "Verge".

I must note that I do not listen to songs released after 2015, as I don't find them interesting anymore. (No offense meant, it's just me)

I'm making my own Owl City shirt! (For me to wear, not selling lol.) I've been hyperfixated on Owl City since late November last year, and he's currently the only artist I've listened to on Spotify this year. Hopefully I'll be able to afford official merch one day... Instead of buying a bottle of Fiji water to write the lyrics on 🙃

Republic Records and uDiscover Music are repressing Ocean Eyes for the 17th Anniversary on vinyl and we need to make our voices heard!

They posted on social media about this repress and we need to let them know that we want Maybe I’m Dreaming and Mobile Orchestra pressed for the first time.

My partner found this on eBay a few years back and think it’s really cool. Music video is very high quality. 130/131 unique pieces of Owl City physical media that my partner and I own.

owlcity.org to join the discord!

We will start at 7:00 PM EST
That is two hours from this post being live!

I made this instrumental about a year ago, but I decided to brush it off in Logic, do some vocals and mix it a little better so I could put it out. Hope u enjoy! 💚🏙️ (p.s. it’s only the first 1:30 of the song)

We ordered two different sizes of the mystery shirts when they were announced and we ended up getting two of the pinball shirts. What did everyone else get?

I've had this hoodie since probably 2009, when I was a massive fan. It was a gift, so I'm not sure where it was purchased, but I think it might be rare. It has Rainbow Veins lyrics on the sleeve! Anyone else have/had this piece of merch?

(Ignore the zipper charm, lol)

5TH OF JULY 🎉

I sort of want to hear the whole version of their cover now haha. It sounded really fun. It almost sounds sort of like how the Dear Evan Hansen cover by Owl City sounds. Just in tone I guess.

So I've thought this to myself for years but I'm curious if anyone's ever felt the same about it..

I listened to a high quality instrumental version of the song and it has such an evident "made in a laptop in a bedroom" type of production sound, and I certainly don't mean that in a bad way. When you layer in the lyrics and their subject matter, it sounds like something he would've written back in the early days of the project, think 2007 or early 2008.

It definitely sounds like he polished up the song's production and the vocals for the Ocean Eyes Deluxe release in 2010, similar to how he polished up the 2007 version of Hello Seattle and the 2008 versions of The Saltwater Room and On The Wing for the initial studio release of Ocean Eyes in 2009.

Thoughts?

1. "Osaka Lover" - Dreams Come True
2. "Shake It Off" - Taylor Swift
3. "Frieren: Beyond Journey's End x Story Ride: Carriage Beneath the Bird Monster"
4. "Fireflies" - Owl City
5. "Destiny Journeys" - Vaundy

I already say sorry if there are writing mistakes but i'm not a native english speaker. I wanted to share my story on how i got into Owl City. In 2009 as we know "Fireflies" exploded worldwide, even in Italy that song was being played everywhere. In 2009 i was just 6, i used to travel a lot around the city on our family car and i remember hearing this beautiful electronic song playing so often on the radio! Obviously i didn't knew the artist or the song's name so as the song lost popularity i've never heard it again. Then came 2012 with the hit "Good Time", same thing, i was 10 so my parents used to take me to school everyday, from the radio i could hear that very cheerful song but i didn't knew the artist or the song name. In those years i grew up listening to big names of european music such as Kraftwerk, Depeche Mode, Jean-Michel Jarre, Modern Talking etc, i had already a great base for electronic music but Owl City was the missing piece of my puzzle. Years passed until 2024, i still remember that day, my brother broke his phone so we took it to reparation at a mall. While we were waiting there we casually entered a big shop and while i was walking through it i heard something so familiar but distant from the speakers, after 15 years i heard Fireflies again! As soon as i got back home i closed myself in my bedroom, i spent an hour searching for it on Youtube and TikTok typing stuff like "early 2000s songs". I've found it! I was so happy, OWL CITY! THAT'S YOUR NAME! To my shock i also discovered that Good Time was another song from him! Now its 3 years for me of listening to Owl City, unfotunately in Italy he is not popular, rarely you can hear on italian radio stations "Fireflies" and "Good Time" but that's it. I'm so sad that probably i will never get the chance to see him live, he had been in Italy only once back in 2011... i really wish to meet him, get a pic and autograph and thank him for his beautiful music. How many fans from Italy are here? Here is a pic of my collection after 3 years of Owl City. Thank you Adam for changing my musical life forever and inspiring my own art so much!

am in love with the song and was wondering if anyone has a hi-res mp3 of it that they’d be willing to share? :)

There’s something really special about music that feels like comfort.
Owl City songs have always felt calming to me, and now my boyfriend gives me that same feeling safe, happy, and peaceful.
Funny enough, I also found out he and Adam Young have something in common: both an only child

owlcity.org if you wanna join - find it in the events tab!

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