Manny's Blog of Awesomeness

I’m posting on my iPhone 3G hopefully for the last time. My birthday was on Friday and I pre-ordered an iPhone 4 for myself. I totally deserve it. Brax has turned on me about the Owl City thing. I’m rather shocked. For such a self proclaimed fan of electronic music and a hater of autotune, I thought he would be with me in disliking something so mediocre in comparison to other acts he champions on a constant basis. Maybe I’m starting to get more bitter now that I’m another year older. Either way, I know I’m right.

So someone got to this site by searching for “does owl city use auto tune.”  I would respond by searching for “does brax talk to that plant way too much?”  Of course Owl City uses auto-tune, dude (or dudette)!  Just because the guy doesn’t sound like T-Pain doesn’t mean he isn’t using it.  Most of its worst offenders are actually quite subtle.  And now you know, and knowing is half the battle.

I seriously thought this was a Postal Service song the first time I heard it.

So apparently now everyone is an “electronic music fan” or something.  Don’t believe me?  Look at the iTunes charts and you’ll see that Owl City is selling like hot cakes.  “So what, Manny?  Shouldn’t you be happy that an electronic act is doing well?” you ask.  I would be happy, if Owl City was any good.  But good does not seem to sell albums.  Catchy sells albums.  Watered down versions of good bands sell albums.  Some dude puts auto-tuned vocals to Garage Band quality tracks and suddenly he is a huge selling Electronic artist.  Meanwhile few know who Ohm’s Law are and countless other electronic artists who can actually make a decent track are struggling just to pay the rent.  This is what is wrong with music today.  I honestly have no solution besides support your local artists, don’t buy into the hype.  I mean, really, this dude sounds like Savage Garden but gussied up for a new decade.  Also, he totally ripped off The Postal Service.  Yeah, think about it.