Talk:Adam Young (singer in Owl City)

This page has likely been created before, but should remain on Wikipedia in the likely event that other people will be involved closely with Owl City. There is sufficient information on Adam not pertaining to Owl City to merit a page, such as his involvement with other musical projects (see deleted history). Lagomen (talk) 06:17, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

Merged

I assume the separate page I made, 'List of Adam Young projects', was merged with this one because content from that page is now on here. —Preceding unsigned comment added by SteveWiilliams (talk • contribs) 19:34, 17 July 2010 (UTC)

Removal of collabarations

Both the collabarations on here are 'artist ft. Adam Yound' and not 'artist ft. Owl City', I think that they're innapropriate here and should only be mentioned on his page. Anyone agree? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.6.87.12 (talk) 22:08, 13 March 2011 (UTC)

Projects?

What happened to all of his other projects? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.173.164.58 (talk) 23:43, 31 May 2011 (UTC)

I would like to add an extra sentence after it says, "Young has often referred to himself as being deeply shy and socially introverted." I would like to add, "But he does not let this hold him back when it comes to putting on concerts and worldwide tours for his albums." I think just leaving it saying he is shy and very introverted makes him sound like a hermit or someone who is afraid of everything, and that's not how this person is at all. Even though it is true he's shy and introverted, I think the following sentence I'm requesting would be appreciated. Anyone agree?

Helper4Adam (talk) 01:32, 29 May 2012 (UTC)

It sounds purely subjective. If you can find a reference for it, the we should add it. Otherwise, better to exclude. --Walter Görlitz (talk) 04:40, 29 May 2012 (UTC)

Thanks. In this video interview Adam Young talks about being an introvert but also shows how he is still able to do what he does, without letting the shyness take over. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJnhbHGRiZ4 Is this what you mean as a reference? If you want me to pull a quote from it I will. Just let me know. I'll keep looking if a non-video resource is preferred. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Helper4Adam (talk • contribs) 13:15, 29 May 2012 (UTC)

Sure. --Walter Görlitz (talk) 14:37, 29 May 2012 (UTC)

Here's a quote from the video I sent. Maybe you can put this right after, "But he does not let this hold him back when it comes to putting on concerts and worldwide tours for his albums."

In an interview about his introversion Young said, “I can’t put my finger on that defining moment every night on stage where I’m standing behind the curtain, terrified. Stage fright is in full force...and suddenly the first song starts and all of that stuff goes away...I can push all that aside and just get lost in the music.”

Let me know if this will work! Thanks

Helper4Adam (talk) 20:05, 29 May 2012 (UTC) Did you get the last message I sent you above? Is this there any other research I can do to make it better?

Citations required

This article has less number of citations kindly provide proper citations and try to improve article according to Wikipedia policies and if you allow my self I can certainly help you in expanding it. Thanks.-- Faizan Munawar Varya ^chat _{contributions} 13:00, 1 July 2012 (UTC)

Hi, Above you can see I (Helper4Adam) was trying to get an extra sentence added that has do with with this person's introversion. My quote came from this source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJnhbHGRiZ4. I'm not sure how to cite this though. If you can help, thank you! This is the quote I wanted to add from the video (copy and pasted from above) ~ In an interview about his introversion Young said, “I can’t put my finger on that defining moment every night on stage where I’m standing behind the curtain, terrified. Stage fright is in full force...and suddenly the first song starts and all of that stuff goes away...I can push all that aside and just get lost in the music.” — Preceding unsigned comment added by Helper4Adam (talk • contribs) 21:47, 11 August 2012 (UTC)

Where did the list of minor projects come from? I would suggest that any that don't have citations, or their own Wikipedia article, or any other mention in this article should be removed. Jonathanmjefferies (talk) 13:05, 21 August 2012 (UTC)

Asperger's

It's way too late for me to be actually finding good sources and adding it, but Adam mentioned in an interview that he has Asperger Syndrome. I heard this somewhere a while back, and just saw that it wasn't here, and a quick search turned up that interview. I don't know if this source in itself is good enough (I'll be honest, it looked like a legit news article, but the URL has the word "blog", and that's as far as I got with it). We should at least use this as a starting point to verify this with better or more sources, and I'm posting this either as a reminder to myself to look into it, and to nudge other editors to do the same. Arathald (talk) 09:30, 13 August 2012 (UTC)

Add it and any categories that may be related. --Walter Görlitz (talk) 14:14, 13 August 2012 (UTC)

Thanks to Invisiboy42293 for beating me to adding it. I checked around, and can't find any other RS that confirm this, though it seems that he often/sometimes talks about it in interviews or on stage, so we at least have a sniff test confirmation of this (and, completely subjectively, it makes sense -- I suspected it long before I heard it directly, and a lot of his music talks about it, albeit indirectly). I'll keep looking, and add a second RS if I can find any. Arathald (talk) 08:40, 15 August 2012 (UTC)