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Review Summary: Honestly, what did you expect? Let me start of by saying I am hugely against illegal downloads. I expect most people on this site are as well. I am also not keen on album leaks because the two are often linked. But the latest album from Adam Young (AKA Owl City) which was recently leaked is not really something I can defend, mainly because it is just so bad. Owl City’s last attempt at music was the 2009 album Ocean Eyes. Although it was hit with enormous public praise, it received “mixed” reviews from most reviewers, and has a dire rating on this site, and in honesty, I don’t expect this to perform much better.
Adam sticks to the exact same style of his last album, being full of twinkling and sparkles in the music with lyrics that will still turn your stomach. All of which are edited with that ridiculous, horrible auto tune that Adam and his fans seem to love so much. The album moves from one bland, generic, bitterly sweet song to the next. If you haven’t given up on the first track The Real World, which is meant to be “one of the best” on the album, that is. Adam tries to mix it up a bit by following some of the “emotional” tracks, like The Real World and Plant Life, with a more dance like track. Believe it or not, these are even worse. The ridiculously overused “Um Cha Um Cha” beat that was already outworn in Ocean Eyes appears again here, in almost every single track, the worst example being the absolutely abysmal Galaxies which opens with a poor keyboard strings section, which will likely drive you mad straight away, before it only gets worse as Adams “voice” bounces on top of it annoyingly.
However, the worst offender of the lot is track 10, Alligator Sky, which gets me onto the point of song titles. Ocean Eyes had corny titles, but none of them were so awful that they annoyed me this much. What in the world is an Alligator Sky? Is it a cloud that represents an alligator? I don’t even think Adam knows, and I don’t really think anyone with a taste in music cares. But onto the song. Not only is it just like every other track he ever made, but it is near identical to his huge hit Fireflies from the last album, more so than that was a rip of from The Postal Service.
Every song on this album sounds like something people in my school could mock up on GarageBand in minutes. If you listened to Ocean Eyes and thought maybe he can do better, this definitely isn’t it. Avoid at all costs.
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A bit rushed and I went with a short review this time.
Also, I listened to the songs on YouTube, I didn't download them from the leak.
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Let me start of by saying I am hugely against illegal downloads. I expect most people on this site are as well.
... honestly can't tell if this is dreadfully sarcastic or dreadfully misguided
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with this, any glimmer of hope I had for this guy were completely snuffed out. I'll stick to Maybe I'm Dreaming
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fyi 90% of people on this site download things illegally and are totally ok with that.
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Let me start of by saying I am hugely against illegal downloads. I expect most people on this site are as well.
Pokerface.
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I pity you since you had to sit through these songs.
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Rating is accurate.
POS
that is all
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Let me start of by saying I am hugely against illegal downloads. I expect most people on this site are as well.
bahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
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If he's being serious (which I'm hoping isn't the case) then the reviewer is seriously misinformed. Downloading music helps record sales, as well as novelty items: hats, shirts, guitar picks, etc., and concert tickets.
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This was a terrible review. I can't really pinpoint what I hate about this review, but there definitely are things there. It may be the subtle (actually, not subtle at all), sickening elitism that plagues the review.
It may also be the overkill of negatively connoted words (we can tell you hate the music; it sounds more like a rant than a review).
Either way, neg'd.
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you only really talked about one track and the majority of that was just bitching about the song title, the rest was just "uhh it sounds like everything else he's done"
hating something is cool but at least say why :]
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skillbinator is a silly masturbator... what a dildo.
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"Every song on this album sounds like something people in my school could mock up on GarageBand in minutes. If you listened to Ocean Eyes and thought maybe he can do better, this definitely isn’t it. Avoid at all costs."
You should have posted just this as your review. It probs would've been featured.
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"If he's being serious (which I'm hoping isn't the case) then the reviewer is seriously misinformed. Downloading music helps record sales, as well as novelty items: hats, shirts, guitar picks, etc., and concert tickets."
I thought you meant pony plugs, gags and ridding crops.
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I like to test drive my albums before I buy them ;)
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I guess I was misinformed, I always thought this is the sort of site where people cared about stealing music.
I stuck to a negative side cause I really did hate this.
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lolno people share links all the time here :]
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I think a lot of people here still buy music now and then but you can't buy every cd you like or you'd
be broke all the time.
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^ what Thomas said.
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Yeah I am already at broke level all the time as it is, if I bought every CD I listen to I'd be homeless lol. Anyway I am unsure why you listened to this seeing as you obviously expected it to be awful before hand...
Man you could have played it that you were being sarcastic, nobody would have known you were being srs.
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Let me start of by saying I am hugely against illegal downloads. I expect most people on this site are as well.
urm... really?
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