In this video, a tween edits a video about her trip to an Owl City concert in Portland, Oregon. The video is titled "6 Reasons Why Seeing Owl City, Lights and Paper Route was incredible!" In the video, you can see how a meaningful day was built around a concert.

Do u remember when u used 2 feel this alive? When you were young, and you were 'excited' about going to see your favourite band play live. Excited about all of the predictable/unpredictable possibilities that might come your way

• venturing to the city, or perhaps an 'urban' part of the city, and doing something meaningful that alternative grownups probably get to do every day
• some sort of 'inconvenience' that you were able to find meaningful because you knew you had a purpose for enduring: seeing the live show of your fave band.
• Waiting in line, but finding it meaningful because ur surrounded by other people who like the same band that you do
• Being convinced that an 'opener' was meaningful / actually a 'good band'. Like you feel like you should 'invest' in them since you think that one day they will 'replace' the headlining band
• standing 'in the front' at the concert
• taking tons of pix
• taking a vid of the most meaningful song so that other people on the internet can 'appreciate' ur experience
• meeting 'members of the bands' and thinking 'wow. they are so nice and humble. they are really kewl, like just nice people. I have a feeling that we would get along if we knew one another in real life.'
• walking away from the concert sweaty and satisfied, like u just had sex for the first or second time and finally 'came.'
  having the unique opportunity to buy authentic band merch, so that the show will last forever in the form of a physical product.

Sorta just wish I could be young again and connect with a network of hopeful, like-minded people in a live setting. Not being annoyed by so many entry levelers in Am Appy hoodies

Sort of get the vibe that Owl City concerts are like 'after parties' for Christian retreats + soccer tournaments or something.

Maybe every one goes through a 'meaningful-core' phase from age 13-18.2, and one band will captivate this audience no matter who it is that makes the era's best cheesy meaningful, emotionally, hopeful music. Some people had Deathcab for Cutie / Postal Service / Ben Gibbard products. Other tweens had Dashboard confessional. Maybe some tweens even had the Cranberries, the Goo Goo dolls, or Hootie and the Blowfish. Meaningful-core has so many different manifestations.

Just want to be young again, and feel like 'my whole life is ahead of me.' I want to go to a concert, and get the feeling that every1 in the crowd will fulfill their dreams. Want to feel like the concert I attended was 'the most meaningful show' of the entire tour, and possibly one of 'the greatest live performances of music in the history of the world.'

I've become such a professional at finding buzzbands that it's so hard to get excited. I know what is going 2 happen. I know that even if I truly love a band, one day they will probably 'go mainstream' because their music is too universally appealing to go unmainstreamified.

Do u wish u could be a meaningful teenager again?
What was ur favourite band of your meaningful-core era?
Is Owl City the 'worst band of all time'?
Does n e 1 know if the Owl City bro should be a registered sex offender based on the weirdo inspirational kids songs he writes?
Really feel scared, like he shouldn't be allowed to sing to kids who are still growing their first pubic hairs.

Is the Owl City bro the modern day Michael Jackson, since he is like a kid trapped in the body of a twinky thirty-year-old man?
Really feel like this video is supposed to be his 'fuck den' or something.

Not sure if I'd let my teenage son or daughter go to an Owl City concert.
If one of my kids walked out the door dressed in a purple Am Appy hoodie and a few headbands, I would make them feel like they were leaving the house dressed like a slut.

Does n e 1 know what concert is 'still worth seeing'?
Are standing concerts for people aged 12-24?
Are mp3s better than the live show because you don't have to listen to them with hundreds of inauthentic people?
Do u wish they had Macbooks / cheap video cams when you were a tween so you could have captured more meaningful moments forever?
What was your favourite part about going 2 concerts when you were a formative alt?