How You Discovered Owl City?
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!