"Ada yang tau ga sih Adam Young itu siapa??"
Itu adalah pertanyaan gue yang pernah gue lontarkan ke beberapa temen-temen yang menurut gue
up-to-date sama artis-artis Barat, dan apa jawabannya?
Ga tau! Ga ada yang tau siapa itu Adam Young!
Abis itu gue tanya lagi "Kalo Owl City?"
Temen-temen gue jawab, "Tau itu mah, yang nyanyi suaranya bagus banget"
Gue tekankan disini, Owl City itu adalah salah satu proyek Adam Young. Dan siapa yang nyanyi di Owl City? Adam Young! Yang suaranya selembut beludu sambil maen piano di Vanilla Twilight? Adam Young!
(ini kenapa jadi ngajak ribut ya?)
Tapi seriusan, gue SUKA banget sama Adam. Bukan cuma Owl City yang gue suka, tapi semua proyek-nya dia, kaya Port Blue, Sky Sailling, Swimming With Dolphins,Windsor Airlift, Insect Airport, Seagull Orchestra, Dolphin Park.
Semuanya itu keren. Banget.
Menurut gue Adam itu kreatif, multi-instrumentalist (bayangin aja, dia bisa maen gitar, drum, piano, saxophone, harmonika, sekaligus yang mengangkat genre Electronica Pop), terus ganteng, dan yang jadi alasan paling utama adalah... suaranya itu loh... lembuuuuttt banget!! Suer tekewer-kewer!! Bagus banget!
Gue udah jadi fans Adam Young sejak dia masih sama-sama Swimming With Dolphins (2008, bikinnya sama Austin Tofte, ganteng juga orangnya). Saat itu gue udah denger suara Adam dan langsung pingsan ditempat. Asli, keren banget!
Awalnya gue lagi searching lagu-lagu gitu di internet, dan gue nge-klik "Saran" yang ada disamping MixPod playlist gue. Gue baca-baca, akhirnya gue tertarik sama Swimming With Dolphins. Gue tertarik gara-gara judul lagunya keren-keren. Ampe sekarang, Adam kalo bikin lagu pasti ada ciri khasnya.
Nih ya, gue tulisin beberapa judul lagunya..
(Swimming With Dolphins)
- Silhouttes
- Sunset, 1989
- Up in The Stars
(Port Blue)
-City of Safe Harbours
(Sky Sailing)
-Brielle
(Owl City)
- Vanilla Twilight
- Hospital Flowers
- Fireflies
- The Saltwater Room
- Dream Don't Turn to Dust
- Hello Seattle
- dll
Bisa dilihat kan? Gatau kenapa, ngeliat judul lagu-lagu diatas ini, gue ngerasa... Adam Young banget! Ini udah jadi ciri khas dia, ada kata-kata yang berhubungan sama lingkungan, binatang, ato sebangsanya.. Padahal cerita lagu itu gaada alam-alam-an sama sekali! Yang ada cinta-cinta-an..
Keren...
Terus ini lirik yang paling gue suka:
Vanilla Twilight.. Unyu maksimal, kawan.
Apalagi bait yang ini
"The silent isn't so bad,
till I look at my hands and feel sad.
Cause the spaces between my fingers are right with yours.
Fit Perfectly"
Unyu banget kan??
Trus, pemirsah, Taylor Swift —tau kan? Penyanyi country yang kaya barbie dan cantiknya ga manusiawi itu.. Yang mirip gue.. *ditimpuk Swifties* (maaf, saya juga Swifties)— pernah bikin lagu buat Adam!! Judulnya Enchanted! Dan tau apa? Lagu itu dibales ama Adam!
Jadi di album 'Speak Now'-nya Tay, ada lagu yang berjudul "Enchanted". Di semua album Tay, terdapat "Message Behind Songs", jadi kaya teka-teki gitu. Di lirik lagu-lagu tersebut, ada huruf yang di kapital-kan. Dan tau apa yang "Message Behind" Enchanted? A-D-A-M!!
A-D-A-M!!!!
*sengaja diulang biar dramatis
A pertama ada di kata "All I can say is it was enchanting to meet you "
D ada di " 2 am who Do you love?"
A kedua ada di "As i was leaving too soon"
M ada di " i was enchanting to Meet you"
Sesuatu banget kan?
Terus ada kata "Wonderstruck" di bait chorus Enchanted, selidik punya selidik, Adam itu sering ngomong "Wonderstruck", di blog-nya Adam aja ada 2 postingan yang pake kata "Wonderstruck"! Ini berarti, Tay adalah pembaca blog-nya Adam! (kata Wonderstruck juga dibikin Tay jadi nama parfumnya dia)
Kurang bukti apalagi coba.
Nih, gue tambah bukti kalo mereka berdua itu saling wonderstruck
(Lirik Enchanted Tay + balesan Adam)
Tay:
"All I can say is I was, enchanting to meet you"
Adam:
"All, I can say is I was, enchanting to meet you, too"
Belom puas? Ini sih belom apa-apa.. Liat yang satu ini.
Tay:
"Please don't be in love with someone else.
Please don't have somebody waiting on you"
Adam:
"I was never in love with someone else.
I never have somebody waiting on me.
Cause you were all of my dreams come true.
And I just wish you knew, Taylor I was so in love with you"
Liat pemirsah!! Adam nyebutin nama Taylor!! Ada namanya!!
*megap-megap*
Nih ada foto-fotonya...
 |
| Keliatan seneng banget ya mereka berdua? |
 |
| Kalo ini editan fans |
 |
| 'Surat Cinta' Adam buat Tay |
Kalian tau ini apa?? Ini adalah SURAT CINTA yang ditulis Adam buat Tay! Dia nulis ini di blog Owl City!!
Kenapa ga jadian aja sih??
Like, please Taylor, open your eyes, YOUR man is right here, reply your song. Go for it!
-Sarah Mumbunan, Swifties. ;)
"Once there was an ugly barnacle. He was so ugly that everyone died. The end."
-Patrick Star
(in Owl City's blog)
I wrote "Enchanted" about a guy who I was enchanted to meet, obviously.
He was somebody that I had talked to a couple of times on email, and then I was in New York
and went to meet him.
I remember just the whole way home thinking, "I hope he's not in love with somebody."
It was just wonderful, that feeling.
Like, "Oh my gosh. Who's he with? Does he like me? Does he like somebody else? What does it mean?"
I got home and he had emailed me and said something like,
"Sorry I was so quiet. I was just wonderstruck meeting you."
And so I incorporated the word wonderstruck, into the song as a, "Hey this one's sorta for you."
-Taylor Swift
Read this!
Note for Taylor in Owl City's blog!
About Taylor?
Bio:
Nama Lengkap : Adam Randal Young
Tempat, Tanggal Lahir : Owatonna, Minesotta, US, 5 Juli 1986