Owl City finally explains how he gets a thousand hugs from ten thousand lightning bugs
Ah, “Fireflies.” The most awkward song to dance to at prom — and yet, a lasting gem of the 2000s.
Owl City (aka Adam Young) whipped up a particularly strange lyric in his first hit single, which leaves us with some obvious questions. First, the lines:
“'Cause I'd get a thousand hugs
From ten thousand lightning bugs
As they tried to teach me how to dance”
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So what's going on here? Does each of the ten thousand lightning bugs hug him a thousand times? Do only a tenth of the bugs hug him? Or does the swarm improbably take on a humanoid form that then hugs Owl City a thousand times? These are the questions that keep us up at night.
Turns out, each bug hugs him a thousand times, as Young thoroughly explained on his Twitter. “I was the recipient of 1,000 hugs from 10,000 lightning bugs for a grand total of 10,000,000 hugs,” he writes. Check out the full explanation below.
.@pryce_d since you asked…. pic.twitter.com/z4LFlisYfQ
— Owl City (@owlcity) June 21, 2017
Well, that answered every question we didn't even know we had. And, he still had time to toss in a quick self-promo at the end. Go Adam!
Reminisce on the 2009 track below.
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