Owl City on how being bullied as a teen informed his new music video for the latest song, "Metropolis," the third single from Owl City's latest mega hit fourth studio album, "The Midsummer Station," which has released last August, shows a shift towards a darker yet more Dance-oriented direction. The musical project – made up of singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Adam Young, who explained: "I grew up listening to Dance music and I've always wanted to make a Dance record, European dance music has so much influence over pop right now, so it made sense to me."
Young may not feel an explicit mission to make the '80s safe for the 21st century, but that's certainly what he achieves on Owl City's "The Midsummer Station." The set is bathed in sunshine melodies, uptempo hooks and buoyant choruses that recall MTV's early days. "Like a hijacked plane, or a runaway train, or a speeding bullet / there's no stopping this, I left my heart in Metropolis," the 26-year-old sings on the string-laden "Metropolis," which is a soaring number brimming with warm synths and a stomping beat that Young produced himself and co-wrote with his friend Matthew Thiessen of Relient K.
Young oozes frothy positivity through the effervescent sweep on the slightly more sophisticated "Metropolis." It's easy to see why Owl City exist. A sneering, compulsory hedonism pervades mass culture and high-school hallways. It warps more shy, creative kids into defensive partisans of lower-key whimsy. It gives us underdeveloped pop heroes like Young, who reduce their fans' fears and desires to the handiest cliché while desperately reassuring them they're all fuckin' perfect fireworks. But they deserve better. We deserve better. "I was bullied a lot in high school and didn't have a whole list of friends," the hit-making singer tells us of his superhero-themed clip. "So I wanted to make a video that paid heed to that." If you don't, the bad guys win.
Combining a mixture of live action and comic book drawings, the Daniel Cummings-directed video, has a great message about stopping bullying and becoming a hero, is cute and tells of a boy in high school who thwarts a bully to win the girl of his dreams. The comic-inspired music video begins with kids inside a classroom, and one school boy is reading a comic book. After class, the boy witnesses another kid being bullied in the hallway. The rest of the video switches among comic book scenes of the boy becoming a super hero and defeating evil, and of the boy in real life. Put on your cape and check out the video below!
Young may not feel an explicit mission to make the '80s safe for the 21st century, but that's certainly what he achieves on Owl City's "The Midsummer Station." The set is bathed in sunshine melodies, uptempo hooks and buoyant choruses that recall MTV's early days. "Like a hijacked plane, or a runaway train, or a speeding bullet / there's no stopping this, I left my heart in Metropolis," the 26-year-old sings on the string-laden "Metropolis," which is a soaring number brimming with warm synths and a stomping beat that Young produced himself and co-wrote with his friend Matthew Thiessen of Relient K.
Young oozes frothy positivity through the effervescent sweep on the slightly more sophisticated "Metropolis." It's easy to see why Owl City exist. A sneering, compulsory hedonism pervades mass culture and high-school hallways. It warps more shy, creative kids into defensive partisans of lower-key whimsy. It gives us underdeveloped pop heroes like Young, who reduce their fans' fears and desires to the handiest cliché while desperately reassuring them they're all fuckin' perfect fireworks. But they deserve better. We deserve better. "I was bullied a lot in high school and didn't have a whole list of friends," the hit-making singer tells us of his superhero-themed clip. "So I wanted to make a video that paid heed to that." If you don't, the bad guys win.
Combining a mixture of live action and comic book drawings, the Daniel Cummings-directed video, has a great message about stopping bullying and becoming a hero, is cute and tells of a boy in high school who thwarts a bully to win the girl of his dreams. The comic-inspired music video begins with kids inside a classroom, and one school boy is reading a comic book. After class, the boy witnesses another kid being bullied in the hallway. The rest of the video switches among comic book scenes of the boy becoming a super hero and defeating evil, and of the boy in real life. Put on your cape and check out the video below!
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