Just Happy Music

As I recently stated on Facebook, I’m a sucker for the snappy “synthpop” music genre.  I get teased about it on a regular basis, mainly because ”it’s SO gay”.  The Pet Shop Boys, Michael and Janet Jackson, many bands from the 80′s and 90′s.  I’m also a fan of the alternative music scene (bands like Ben Folds Five, REM, U2 etc.).  The video below is from Owl City and I found this on another blog that I read.  His music is snappy, heavily processed, crisp, and very clean.  His melodies are common but very repeatable and memorable, and the texture he uses on the synthesizers is complex and enjoyable.  There are a couple songs off his newest album that I really like, the one below called “Fire Flies” is one of them.  Now, before you accuse me of going Beverly Hills 90210 on you, this is the kind of music you’d hear on those teen soap operas that were popular years ago, but how wrong is it to enjoy listening to someone that doesn’t swear in his lyrics and whose messages are not all downers?  Too much of the music out there today by pop artists are constantly bitching about the complexities and painfulness of life.  They are right, sometimes life is a bitch and shit happens but it isn’t like that every day you know.  Sometimes it’s just nice to listen to an upbeat song about nothing in particular.  This is one of those songs.