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old-flesh:

chemicalheart-deactivated202009:

kontextmaschine:

quoms:

Also they put “Fireflies” on rotation at the grocery store where I work and if (1) I wasn’t already familiar with the song and (2) I didn’t listen to the lyrics I would absolutely 100% think it was explicitly Christian music about the redeeming power of Jesus. Actually even if you do listen to the lyrics I’m not sure it isn’t that

I’m not saying this like it’s news because look that’s just where Owl City is at but like… damn we really went in for that in 2008 huh. Like that song was omnipresent and I feel like this was just never commented on at the time

Yeah that late-2000s commercial-twee thing was kinda Christian-adjacent, huh? Eisley literally started as the house band of a church coffeeshop.

The Owl City guy is extremely Christian. You should hear the whole album

oh my god Eisley and Owl City were huge in the church that I grew up in……also there was a lot of crossover with 2000s alt and indie rock and church culture, see mutemath, foster the people, etc

which makes sense as the inevitable crossover from the mainstream fundamentalism of the bush years to the kindler gentle christian hipster neoliberalism of the obama years

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Also if we’re doing this, I just want to say back in the 90s I found Guster extremely sus. Like not even anything about their aesthetic, just that it seems like they showed up suddenly from a parallel dimension and all those two-shades-too-cheery college-bound girls who drove Volkswagen Golfs and only smoked weed at Dave Matthews Band concerts were already into them.

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