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Today we have a look at Fireflies
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Come on in to my time machine and lets travel back to a distant time I like to call 2009.
It was a wonderful time to be alive.
I actually had friends.
I even had a cheerleader girlfriend that I totally could have got to 3rd base with but
instead I was a wimp and walked away from a beautiful situation that I still regret
to this day.
True story.
But I am not here to talk about how I’m a shell of my former self.
No sir, that is for my therapist every other Wednesday at 2 p.m. I pay him very well to
listen to me cry.
Instead I mention 2009 because it was the year that a musical artist known as owl city
released his debut single titled “Fireflies” off his debut album titled Ocean Eyes.
If you were a teenager around this time you totally know what song I am talking about.
The one that had the synthesizer that made the bleepy bloopy sounds.
Now Due to the songs memorability, and the love and hate relationship that some people
had with it it was very often utilized within various video and song remixes dating back
as far as 2010
With one of the earliest examples replacing the synthesizer melody with the same melody
but instead of the synthesizer it’s cats and dogs.
It’s pretty amazing.
But most recently the song has been heavily included within a genre of video known as
unfitting music videos.
In which unfitting music is used to accompany videos…but…
I guess the name of the genre of video is kinda self explanatory so…
I’m an idiot.
I gotta say these videos are pretty damn great.
But recently Fireflies has been a hot topic for a pretty interesting reason.
You see if you analyze a couple lyrics of the song they are kinda confusing.
As the name of the song indicates, it is about fireflies, these little bugs that fly around
and glow because of like magic or like solar panels or some type of science stuff I’m
not exactly sure.
In the song he says the lyric “ I get a thousand hugs from 10,000 lightning bugs.”
When you think of that lyric it is kinda confusing, you know considering the math of the situation
and the whole bugs not exactly being able to hug a human scenario.
So in May of 2017 Twitter user Pyrce_D reached out to owl city to ask the question we have
all been wondering for nearly a decade.
but instead of just telling pyrce that the lyric of the song is simply a way to rhyme
and make a catchy song so that he can make a ton of money, Owl city actually responded
with a legit answer!
An answer that clarifies the question, but then starts to confuse everybody all over
again.
at least it did with me
The answer set the internet on fire with tons of people reacting to, sharing and responding
to the answer.
Various news outlets even ran stories on the response.
Creating a new spike in the interest of the song and its memes!
So there you have it!
What started off as a song that many people know of and enjoy, turned into a handful of
memes and an interesting topic years later on the internet
But hey!!!
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