Owl City’s six time platinum single, Fireflies is certainly a unique chart topper of 2009. In a particular year for edgy hip hop, it stands out as a pure, soothing electropop song about, quite simply, fireflies and the inability to fall asleep at night.
Owl City was a project created in 2007 by multi instrumentalist Adam Young. Before signing with Universal Republic records, Young developed a significant following on myspace exposing social media to his soothing yet still upbeat style of music in his house in Minnesota. Oddly enough, he credits the creation of Fireflies, to his sleep disorder. Young states, “ "I have a bit of a problem falling asleep. Strangely enough it is when I can't sleep that I tend to find most inspiration.” He credits
Owl City was a project created in 2007 by multi instrumentalist Adam Young. Before signing with Universal Republic records, Young developed a significant following on myspace exposing social media to his soothing yet still upbeat style of music in his house in Minnesota. Oddly enough, he credits the creation of Fireflies, to his sleep disorder. Young states, “ "I have a bit of a problem falling asleep. Strangely enough it is when I can't sleep that I tend to find most inspiration.” He credits