I’ve watched Owl City slowly climb the charts as he blatantly rips off the Postal Service. Owl City is a watered down, stale version of the Postal Service by Minnesota born, Adam Young. In an interview with EW, laptop totting synthpop Adam Young admits his no. 1 single “Fireflies” and the Postal Service in general “are pretty similar,” but at the same time claims he’s “a lot more of a Death Cab fan.” For example, he’d only heard Give Up “a little bit” before people started pointing it out.
EW: A lot of people wish they would put out another album. Is that something you would look forward to hearing?
ADAM YOUNG: I think [Give Up] left everyone asking, “What are they going to do next?” Since no one has done anything quite like it, it’s almost like everyone is naturally saying this is the next step — maybe that’s me, maybe that’s this record.
Ian Cohen of Pitchfork said it best:
But I doubt Ben Gibbard is losing sleep over Owl City’s Adam Young squatting on what is essentially vacated property. Death Cab reportedly cleared $5.4 million in revenue during 2006, basically anyone who’s watched TV in the past three years has heard the Postal Service, and Gibbard is married to the fantasy of every guy this song [Fireflies by Owl City] was ostensibly written for…
Don’t waste your money and bandwidth on this guy. True, there is no new Postal Service anywhere in sight but Owl City should not be your rebound. Judge for youself:
[audio: fireflies.mp3 |titles=Fireflies|artists=Owl City]
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