Firefly

We have all had a song in our lives that we heard at an early age, and it has just stuck with us ever since. It’s the kind of song that you can never get yourself to delete off your playlist, even though it is no longer your favorite song. So, when it begins to play out of your phone speakers, you never skip it. You would never actively look for that song, but it still gave you a feeling of content every time you heard it. That is the feeling I get when I hear “Firefly” by Owl City. Even though that song came out in 2009, I have never gotten tired of hearing it. This is because of several reasons, including the overall way that the song sounds to me, the effect the lyrics have on my current mood, and the memories that have been created while …show more content…
Like I said earlier, “Firefly” was the first electronic song that I had ever heard that I actually liked. Because of this song, I lead me to many of Owl City’s other songs that slowly developed into an obsession with electronic music. After my initial introduction to this song, I would send a request to the radio station every night, so I could fall asleep to that song. And every night it would play on the radio, whether that was my doing, or someone else’s, I was happy. When I started 6th grade that fall, “Firefly” was the song that everyone loved to listen to. Every time we had karaoke day in our music class, at least 3 people would sing that song. During this time, there was a guy I like in my class, and he really liked this song as well. We would talk about it together all the time, and he owned the song on his mp3, so after school we would sit outside and listen to it on repeat until our parents picked us up. So, one day, I decided that I want to impress him by learning how to play “Firefly” on the piano. I spent several weeks watching YouTube videos, and teaching myself to play that song. In the end, I got too scared to play it for him, so there went 3 weeks of my