Hello readers & my d.e.a.d blog :|
Feel like my blog is kinda dead for almost two weeks, lol.
Actually I wanna open my blog after coming back from tuitions, but I procrastinate it over and over again wahahaha, lil bit lazy & the truth tons of homeworks & daily exams.
*big sigh* one more week to 2nd monthly exams' week & I'm definitely NOT ready for it.
Wonder why there's no time machine within this century :( :( if there's one here, I'll flashforward to the times that I love the most #sorry-for-this-silly-nonsense-imagination
Well, gotta recommend you a new & fresh album from Owl City titled "THE MIDSUMMER STATION" , great & easy listening as usual! Must download the whole album! hehe
I myself always love the cover from Owl City's album cause seems all their covers create calm feeling for the listener & buyers, lol.
"Adam Young's sugary emo electronica pop as Owl City
has been a highly polarizing entity since he broke through in a huge
way with runaway single "Fireflies" in 2009. Critics and naysayers
dismissed the project as a watered-down Postal Service
ripoff way too late in the game, but millions and millions of fans
dismissed the critics and made the song an international chart-topper.
While "Fireflies" was a really rare accidental Top 40 hit recorded by Young in his basement, The Midsummer Station
is the most transparent bid for mainstream airplay imaginable, with
each of its 11 tracks so tailored for pop radio, teen movie soundtracks,
and soft drink commercials it's laughable. That's no dig on the quality
of the album, just a statement of fact. Owl City has never shied away from big-sounding pop with emo underpinnings, and The Midsummer Station goes as big as possible. Young brings in production assistance from hitmakers Stargate for the Euro-house rave touches of "Shooting Star" and co-writes several songs with Katy Perry writer/engineer Emily Wright.
Electronic four-on-the-floor beats are huge, production is loud and
garish, and the hooks announce themselves with all the subtlety of a
sledgehammer. It's by-the-numbers big-budget pop, but the problem is how
recycled the majority of The Midsummer Station feels and how poor of a fit the whole thing is on Young.
"I'm Coming After You" is built on a riff/beat combination that sounds
strikingly similar to nightlife anthem "Give Me Everything" by Pitbull (another of Emily Wright's
clients) and "Gold" just sounds like any given big-beat song on
commercial radio circa 2011. Much of the album falls into this anonymous
territory, mostly to its detriment but with a few exceptions. Obvious
single "Good Time" finds Young duetting with Justin Bieber-approved tween pop star Carly Rae Jepsen
on a huge summery production about hanging out, partying, and nothing
in particular. It's a great example of a dumb, fun pop song done right,
and along with the slightly more sophisticated "Metropolis" and the
rocked-out moments of "Dementia" (the latter aided by blink-182's Mark Hoppus), it's one of the album's few redeeming tracks. There are still glimmers of the sonic personality that drew so many to Owl City
in the first place, as on the tenderly heartbroken piano ballad
"Silhouette," but much of the album is absent any personality at all,
sounding like Young
singing karaoke of vaguely familiar Top 40-styled tunes in his precious
doe-eyed quaver. Even absent is the guilty satisfaction that so often
comes with this kind of calculated heavily processed radio fare. With
just a few exceptions, The Midsummer Station's would-be mainstream anthems of youth, love, and longing come off generic, hollow, and barely enjoyable"
Here's the song list :
01 – Dreams And Disasters
02 – Shooting Star
03 – Gold
04 – Dementia
05 – I’m Coming After You
06 – Speed Of Love
07 – Good Time
08 – Embers
09 – Silhouette
10 – Metropolis
11 – Take It All Away
That's all for today, guys!
oh anyway, lots of my friends celebrating their sweet17th birthday this months lol
Wishing them a great birthday ever & be bless!
Well, catch you on your flip side guys!
"When the sun goes down, and the lights burn out,
Then it's time for you to shine.
Brighter than the shooting star, so shine no matter where you are."
--- Owl City
xoxo, Jennifer
