Just Looking For Lost Adam Young Music

About a year ago, a Tumblr user by the name of hiddengemsandjams suddenly started releasing allegedly unreleased music from Adam Young and one unreleased MJ song. Since this Tumblr page is dedicated to Owl City, we will be talking about those. So this page had posted an alleged snippet of On Marlin Isle by Port Blue, Trampoline by Owl City, and another song that was not captioned and was later removed (this will come back up later). The Port Blue snippet was the most convincing to me. When this was first posted to the site I was convinced that this person may be an actual insider or someone who was lucky enough to find the full song online before it was taken down from Megaupload. As for Trampoline, as much as it sounds like an Owl City song there just seemed something off about it. Also, Trampoline is a song by Novel. Not Owl City. I asked them about this song specifically on their profile and they told me that they have a second snippet for this song. For the third snippet that was not captioned, it sounded like the beginning of an Owl City song that I have heard before but just slightly different. I couldn’t put my finger on it.

I reached out to the user through questions and then begin chatting with them through messages. Looking back now, I wish I had saved our conversations. It would have saved me a lot of typing, haha. When talking to them, they seemed nice and their answers to my questions seemed very believable. They would tell me directly if there was a song they did not have or if they had even heard of a particular song. I would even make up random song names to ask so I could try to trap them, but they would genuinely respond with, “I’m not sure I’ve heard of that one before.”  The first week I spent talking with them privately, it seemed like they were legit and just afraid of getting into legal trouble if they uploaded too much. For a moment, I believed them. However, that was until I pressed them a bit further.

During the second week of talking to this person, the story changed. Originally, they told me they received these unreleased songs on a flash drive. During our second week talking, I said something along the lines of, “You are lucky to have found these online when you did.” They laughed and agreed, totally forgetting about receiving these songs from a “source.” When I called them out on it they said they could prove they had music by sending me a “free sample.” I called them out on their bluff and decided to wait. A week went by, nothing. Another week went by, nothing. I grew impatient and after waiting for a month I deleted our messages and went about my day. By the time February rolled around, that was when Texas had a really bad snowstorm and we were out of power. I have been off Tumblr ever since. not because I’ve been out of power that long, haha. Just got distracted.

Which leads us to today. I’m now logging in for the first time in almost a year and I have a new message from HG&J. It was sent back in April, four months after they said they would send something. It’s just a link to a site that automatically downloads a folder titled “Owl City OCEAN.” Inside the folder there are three files:

_First_Frost_ 00:20s

_Run_Away_(NYC Demo) 00:20s

_Never_ 00:15s

I will save you the trouble and just tell you that all of these songs are fake. First Frost is the third snippet that was removed. This one sounds the most real out of the three, but the quality is awful. Run Away is literally New York City instrumentation with weird vocals, and Never is just….awful. These snippets are definitely AI generated and you can barely make out what is being said. So if you are following hiddengemsandjams for Owl City content, you’re going to be disappointed. Plus I see that they haven’t posted anything in a while so I doubt we will be getting anything else from this user. Since none of the songs from the downloaded folder are real, I won’t be posting them here or on my YouTube channel. I’m also convinced the link he sent me gave my computer a virus so I won’t be posting that for obvious reasons.

So in conclusion, hiddengemsandjams posted AI generated Owl City songs and they are not real. Though he swore to me that the On Marlin Isle snippet was real, I have no reason to believe that it is. It’s possible and most likely the case that this snippet is also fake.

The majority of the Owl City fandom most likely knew these songs were just for clicks and came to this conclusion immediately. A lot of us questioned it, but I know there are some that still believed these to be real and this is an update for those who did. It’s a hard time to be an Owl City fan right now. It’s been three and a half years since Cinematic was released and all we want is new music. At least Adam is posting on Instagram again so maybe there’s still hope for an album in 2022. And with that, keep your heads up, stay safe, have a Merry Christmas and happy holidays.