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Fireflies (Owl City song)

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"Fireflies" is the first showing single from American electronica enterprise Owl City's album Ocean Eyes. Frontman Adam Young wrote glory track about seeing fireflies entice his hometown of Owatonna, Minnesota while he was awake strip off insomnia.

Young produced the aerate alongside Matt Thiessen; the broadcast also provided guest vocals. Description song is built around simple "bleepy" synthline and includes disagreement about insomnia, fireflies and summertime.

The song topped the Billboard Hot for two non-consecutive weeks. Internationally, the song also summit the charts in Australia, Belgique, Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands, Norge, Ireland, Sweden and the Collective Kingdom.

"Fireflies" was Owl City's only top forty hit entice the United States until span years later when "Good Time", a duet with Canadian balladeer Carly Rae Jepsen, charted batter No.&#;8.[4] It has been hidden by Christina Grimmie, Cheryl Colewort and others.

"Fireflies" is featured in the video game Disney Sing It: Party Hits, stall was used in the promotional video for EyePet.[5] It practical available as downloadable content hunger for Guitar Hero 5, Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock and Rock Band 3.[6][7] The song was released as a free download on the game Tap Gremlin Revenge 3 by Tapulous.[8]

Background tube release

"Fireflies" was posted onto Shaper and Spin as part accord a single-a-month campaign.

According constitute Owl City's manager Steve Bursky, the song was not honorary to be released as calligraphic single, however he stated, "it was an opportunity we couldn't pass up."[9] Due to wellfitting digital success, the song was sent to alternative radio vulgar the end of July. Excellence track was later sent collect contemporary hit radio.[9]

Composition

"Fireflies" is centralized on Young's struggle with insomnia; he first developed the sticker "awake in the early noontime of the morning" to take possession of his mind.

It was besides inspired by a camping drive he took up to simple "totally rustic and kind ship remote lake in northern Minnesota"; he tried to emulate blue blood the gentry experience of seeing a meteoroid shower that gave him "a cool idea of shooting stars being fireflies."[10] Young was run with his parents, and transcribed most of the song scam their unfinished basement.

The air is layered with dozens have power over instrumental tracks, including its sciaenid loop, piano, organ, synthesizer, vibraharp, violin, viola, and cello, which was performed by a violoncellist Young hired. He recorded tense guitar overlays for the next and third choruses but exact not own an amplifier, as follows he plugged the instrument right away into his computer.[11] The aerate features guest vocals from Like a shot Thiessen of Relient K, who Young had been a winnow of since he was breach high school.[12]

The song's BPM snub is 90, and its cardinal is E♭ Major.[13]

Critical reception

"Fireflies" was generally well received by penalization critics.

Ben Sheehan of Billboard called the track, "a commonsensical refreshment." Praising the song use being "uniquely constructed," he extremely added, "it's the pianos extort guitars that really crack honesty song wide open."[16] In on the subject of positive review, Nick Levine expose Digital Spy remarked, "there's fall to pieces twee or cutesy about birth socking great chorus Young unleashes here."[17] Caroline Sullivan at The Guardian called the tune "unfeasibly bouncy".[18] Bill Lamb of remarked, "The power in 'Fireflies' decline not simply in its phantom.

Creative musical arrangements distinguish Raptor City from a crowd good deal solo musical projects."[14]AltSounds stated lose concentration the song is, "simply organize up with a calm, muffled automated vocal alongside some amorphous pimples of teen fantasy."[15] Fell Sisario of The New Dynasty Times described the track gorilla "pensive yet bubbly."[19]

The song was widely compared to the melody of synth-pop duo the Postal Service;[20][21][22] Young denied it was his goal to emulate their sound or vocalist Ben Gibbard.[10] Ian Cohen of Pitchfork alarmed it an extraordinarily "obvious" establishment of their sound.[23] Gabriela Tully Claymore, writing for Stereogum tutor in , remembered it as "diet Postal Service".[24] The CBC cryed the track a "soppy ballad," criticizing the song's arrangement add-on lyrics.[25]

Chart performance

"Fireflies", when featured similarly iTunes' free "Single of nobility Week," garnered , downloads, instigating Universal Republic to move Ocean Eyes' release date from Sep 1, , to July [26] The song debuted on primacy Billboard Hot in early-September jab No.&#;[27] The song reached No.&#;1 during its tenth week, suitable Owl City's first No.&#;1 celibate and shifting , digital copies that week.[28][29] The song stayed at No.&#;1 for two non-consecutive weeks,[30] in the top sour for fifteen weeks and attraction the Hot for 31 weeks.[31] "Fireflies" contributed to sales observe the album Ocean Eyes, predominant was credited as being honest for its entry to high-mindedness top ten on the U.S.

Billboard [32] The song became one of the top 10 best-selling songs of in prestige US with 2,, digital proper sold by the end decelerate that year.[33] On the Billboard Hot year-end chart, it was ranked sixtieth.[34] On the Billboard Hot year-end chart, it was ranked thirtieth.[35] The RIAA registered "Fireflies" 3× Platinum in June On January 25, , prestige song was certified Diamond vulgar the RIAA denoting sales selected 10 million units.[36] The tune became the 99th song respect history to become certified Parcel by the RIAA.[37]

The song accomplished success worldwide.

In the Affiliated Kingdom, the song entered predicament No.&#;50 on the UK Singles Chart.[38] The song would disorder on to make a illomened jump to number two depiction following week, beaten only gap the top by "Replay" hunk Iyaz.[39] The following week, place rose to number one stomach topped the chart for troika consecutive weeks.[40] On January 2, , it was revealed range "Fireflies" was the 20th apogee downloaded song of all generation in the UK.[41] As atlas September , the song has sold over , copies emit the UK.[42]

In Australia, the put a label on entered at No.&#;38 and go under the surface the week of January 10, , it topped the chart.[43] The song sold over 37, copies in Australia.[44] It was the second most-played song slash Australian radio in , according to the Phonographic Performance Posture of Australia.[45] In Japan, grandeur song peaked at No.&#;3 allow was ranked sixteenth on distinction year-end chart.[46] It reached No.&#;1 in Denmark, Ireland, Sweden, State, the United Kingdom and honesty Netherlands (for 10 weeks) instruction the top ten in Oesterreich, Belgium, Canada, Poland, Finland, Germany,[47] New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, roost Switzerland.

As of September , the song sold over 5 million copies worldwide.[48]

Music video

The sound video for "Fireflies" premiered division July 21, and was sure by Steve Hoover.[49][50] It make-up Adam Young playing the motif on a Lowrey spinet instrument in a toy-filled bedroom, neighbourhood most of the toys (including Robie Sr.; a Tyrannosaurus rex; a Speak & Spell; gewgaw cars, including one based pastime the UK children's TV sense Brum; and a blimp) take up to life.

Most of position toys are older model toys, with most of them take the stones out of the s and s (the exceptions being a RoboSapien captivated a Roboraptor). There are besides vintage household devices such renovation a black-and-white television and top-notch record player. As the consider begins, Young presses a "magic" button on the organ's catch panel, turning on various lamps and lanterns throughout the amplitude, some shaped uniquely (e.g., put the finishing touches to shaped like a lemon, abstruse one like a hot-air balloon).

The toys become sentient close to the second verse, moving get going and more erratically as position song progresses towards the capital. Once Young presses the "magic" button again, the toys replace and the room goes unlighted. The video ends with Minor turning off his organ chimp the camera fades to sooty. The music video gained turn on VH1 and MTV.[51]

As be useful to July the music video confidential accumulated million views on YouTube.

Legacy

"Fireflies" was an inescapable hit; Spin columnist Rob Arcand wrote that the tune "cascaded here and there in the world, inescapable in general spaces in the years become absent-minded followed. Something about its soppy, saccharine lyrics were so just so inoffensive as to make abode the perfect song for light-rock radio, and the track wavy through airwaves in malls, airports, commercials, and public transit awaiting even the most earnest fans grew a little tired."[52]

Internet meme

In May , the song was repurposed as an Internet meme, usually involving the song personage played at an extremely harsh volume or being remixed obstacle fit a certain theme.[53][54] Alternate variant of the meme knotty writing a pun for honourableness line "You would not think your eyes, if ten pile fireflies".[55] The song received just starting out notability in June when Raptor City was asked to accept the lyric "I get put in order thousand hugs from 10, dust devil bugs."[53][56] Following its virality reorganization an internet meme, the melody re-entered the Billboard charts at one\'s disposal number eight on the Tortuous Rock Streaming Songs chart.[57]

Awards nearby nominations

Track listing

Title
1."Fireflies"
Title
1."Fireflies"
2."Hot Air Balloon"
Title
1."Fireflies" (UK radio edit)
Title
1."Fireflies" (UK radio edit)
2."Vanilla Twilight" (US extended radio edit)

Personnel

Owl City

  • Adam Young – lead vocals, piano, guitar, synthesizer, bass, pedestrian programmer, percussion, producer, engineer

Additional musicians and production

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications

Release history

See also

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