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| Fireflies | |
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Fireflies Album Cover | |
B-side: | Hot Air Balloon |
Released: | July 14, 2009 |
Format: | Digital download, CD single |
Recorded: | 2007-2008 |
Genre: | Synthpop |
Length: | 3:48 |
Label: | Universal Republic |
Writer(s): | Adam Young |
Producer: | Adam Young, Matthew Thiessen |
Fireflies is a synthpop song and the debut single from Owl City's album Ocean Eyes. Relient K vocalist Matt Thiessen is eatured as a guest vocalist in the song. Adam Young described the song as "a little song about bugs and not being able to fall asleep at night."[3] The song is built around a "bleepy" 1980s-influenced synthline and includes lyrics about insomnia, fireflies and summer.
The single attained worldwide success in late 2009-early 2010, topping the charts in Australia, Belgium, Denmark, Ireland, Finland, Sweden, Norway, the United Kingdom, the United States and the Netherlands. "Fireflies" was Owl City's only hit in the US Top 40 until three years later when "Good Time", a duet with Canadian recording artist Carly Rae Jepsen, charted at No. 8.[4]
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Since first breaking onto the alt-pop scene in 2007, Owl City has built a global following on the strength of his heart-on-sleeve songwriting and endlessly inventive sound. Along with earning a monumental hit with the diamond-certified “Fireflies”—a 2009 release that reached No. 1 in 26 countries—the Minnesota-bred artist otherwise known as Adam Young has made waves with smash singles like the double-platinum “Good Time” feat. Carly Rae Jepsen and brought his exuberant live set to sold-out shows around the world. With total album sales of over three million and single sales surpassing 20 million globally, Owl City has now delivered the highly anticipated album called Coco Moon: a wildly imaginative body of work revealing his deepened devotion to the strange magic of creativity.
“The goal with this new music was to get back to how I felt when I wrote my first song alone in my bedroom when I was 18 years old,” Young says of Coco Moon, Owl City’s seventh full-length effort and the follow-up to his powerhouse 2018 album Cinematic. “It was this very pure, euphoric moment when I realized that I could immediately be transported into another world that I’d made myself. I had no agenda beyond creating that feeling—it’s why I got started making music, and it’s what I wa
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