1. Everybody says Owl City is a ripoff of the Postal Service, which is pretty true, but if you had ever heard Massive Habit, you would be saying Owl City was a ripoff of Massive Habit.
2. I thought LIGHTS was the girl version of Owl City, but she is more self-consciously influenced by 80s pop. I'm going to go ahead and guess that she was not actually alive during the 80s. (Close: she was born in 1987.)
3. Lights and Owl City represent the natural progression of the way Christian rock music has been progressing for the last 20 years. The important elements include:
- vaugely positive lyrics
- "safe" lyrical themes (i.e. talking about "love" in very general ways)
- super-loud vocals
- Earnestness
- elements of a slightly older "counterculture" (e.g., "indie synth pop," "electro," etc) with a pop sheen (to be fair it is not only Christian rock that does this)
- Most significantly, never having had anything to do with any business that could be construed as being involved with the "Christian music industry"
- More to come if I can think of it
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