America Online - Revision history

Timothy at 15:08, 21 June 2024

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Timothy: Text replacement - "from ''Monsters''" to "from Monsters"

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Text replacement - "from ''Monsters''" to "from Monsters"

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Timothy at 17:15, 15 April 2024

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Timothy at 17:17, 14 April 2024

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	The date on the single artwork for ''America Online'' is August 6, 1991, which is the day the world's first website was published by [[wikipedia:Tim Berners-Lee\|Tim Berners-Lee]] at [[wikipedia:CERN\|CERN]].<ref>{{Cite web \|last=Nix \|first=Elizabeth \|date=August 4, 2016 \|title=The World’s First Web Site - HISTORY \|url=https://www.history.com/news/the-worlds-first-web-site \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220328185432/https://www.history.com/news/the-worlds-first-web-site \|archive-date=March 28, 2022 \|access-date=April 6, 2022 \|website=HISTORY}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web \|date=August 6, 1991 \|title=info.cern.ch \|url=http://info.cern.ch./ \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220415131542/http://info.cern.ch./ \|archive-date=April 15, 2022 \|access-date=April 15, 2022 \|website=CERN}}</ref>		The date on the single artwork for ''America Online'' is August 6, 1991, which is the day the world's first website was published by [[wikipedia:Tim Berners-Lee\|Tim Berners-Lee]] at [[wikipedia:CERN\|CERN]].<ref>{{Cite web \|last=Nix \|first=Elizabeth \|date=August 4, 2016 \|title=The World’s First Web Site - HISTORY \|url=https://www.history.com/news/the-worlds-first-web-site \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220328185432/https://www.history.com/news/the-worlds-first-web-site \|archive-date=March 28, 2022 \|access-date=April 6, 2022 \|website=HISTORY}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web \|date=August 6, 1991 \|title=info.cern.ch \|url=http://info.cern.ch./ \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220415131542/http://info.cern.ch./ \|archive-date=April 15, 2022 \|access-date=April 15, 2022 \|website=CERN}}</ref>

	~~== Track listing ==~~
	~~{{Track listing~~
	~~\| all_writing = [[Tim McEwan]] and [[Tyler Lyle]]~~
	~~\| title1 = America Online~~
	~~\| length1 = 5:49~~
	~~\| total_length = 5:49~~
	}}

	== Lyrics ==		== Lyrics ==

Timothy at 23:36, 4 September 2023

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	\| artist = The Midnight singles		\| artist = The Midnight singles
	\| type =		\| type =
	\| prev_title = [[Arcade Dreams]]		\| prev_title = [[File:Arcade dreams - single.jpg\|50px\|link=\|frameless]]<br>[[Arcade Dreams]]
	\| prev_year = 2018		\| prev_year = 2018
	\| title = America Online		\| title = [[File:America online - single.jpg\|50px\|link=\|frameless]]<br>America Online
	\| year = 2019		\| year = 2019
	\| next_title = [[Deep Blue]]		\| next_title = [[File:Deep blue - single.jpg\|50px\|link=\|frameless]]<br>[[Deep Blue]]
	\| next_year = 2020		\| next_year = 2020
	}}		}}

Timothy: /* Official versions */

2023-08-07T14:27:11Z

Official versions

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	{{MusicTitle\|link=https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=2390823575/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=fe7eaf/tracklist=false/track=1996013663/transparent=true/\|caption=America Online\|caption2=from [[Monsters]]}}		{{MusicTitle\|link=https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=2390823575/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=fe7eaf/tracklist=false/track=1996013663/transparent=true/\|caption=America Online\|caption2=from [[Monsters]]}}
	{{MusicTitle\|link=https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=4098525368/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=fe7eaf/tracklist=false/track=588628811/transparent=true/\|caption=America Online (~~instrumental~~)\|caption2=from ''Monsters (The Instrumentals)''}}		{{MusicTitle\|link=https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=4098525368/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=fe7eaf/tracklist=false/track=588628811/transparent=true/\|caption=America Online (Instrumental)\|caption2=from ''Monsters (The Instrumentals)''}}
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Timothy: /* Official versions */

2023-08-07T14:22:56Z

Official versions

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	{{MusicTitle\|link=https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=2390823575/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=fe7eaf/tracklist=false/track=1996013663/transparent=true/\|caption=America Online\|caption2=from [[Monsters]]}}		{{MusicTitle\|link=https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=2390823575/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=fe7eaf/tracklist=false/track=1996013663/transparent=true/\|caption=America Online\|caption2=from [[Monsters]]}}
	{{MusicTitle\|link=https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=~~monsters~~/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=fe7eaf/tracklist=false/track=588628811/transparent=true/\|caption=America Online (instrumental)\|caption2=from ''Monsters (The Instrumentals)''}}		{{MusicTitle\|link=https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=4098525368/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=fe7eaf/tracklist=false/track=588628811/transparent=true/\|caption=America Online (instrumental)\|caption2=from ''Monsters (The Instrumentals)''}}
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Timothy at 14:22, 7 August 2023

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			== Official versions ==
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			{{MusicTitle\|link=https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=2390823575/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=fe7eaf/tracklist=false/track=1996013663/transparent=true/\|caption=America Online\|caption2=from [[Monsters]]}}
			{{MusicTitle\|link=https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=monsters/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=fe7eaf/tracklist=false/track=588628811/transparent=true/\|caption=America Online (instrumental)\|caption2=from ''Monsters (The Instrumentals)''}}
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	== References ==		== References ==

Timothy at 14:19, 7 August 2023

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	During a tour stop in the [[Spring 2019 Tour]] about a month before the single's release, the band talked with ''NewRetroWave'' about ''America Online'':<ref>{{Cite web \|last=Zistler \|first=Andrew \|date=April 5, 2019 \|title=The Midnight Talk Tour and Reveal New Single - America Online - NewRetroWave - Stay Retro! {{!}} Live The 80's Dream! \|url=https://newretrowave.com/2019/04/05/the-midnight-talk-tour-and-reveal-new-single-america-online/ \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220406163748/https://newretrowave.com/2019/04/05/the-midnight-talk-tour-and-reveal-new-single-america-online/ \|archive-date=April 6, 2022 \|access-date=April 6, 2022 \|website=NewRetroWave}}</ref><blockquote>''As a kid you’re sort of [disconnected] from the world… But when you’re in your teenage years, everything is sort of inner-conflict, relationships, all happening at once. The tensions of romantic love, acceptance in groups and things like that.		During a tour stop in the [[Spring 2019 Tour]] about a month before the single's release, the band talked with ''NewRetroWave'' about ''America Online'':<ref>{{Cite web \|last=Zistler \|first=Andrew \|date=April 5, 2019 \|title=The Midnight Talk Tour and Reveal New Single - America Online - NewRetroWave - Stay Retro! {{!}} Live The 80's Dream! \|url=https://newretrowave.com/2019/04/05/the-midnight-talk-tour-and-reveal-new-single-america-online/ \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220406163748/https://newretrowave.com/2019/04/05/the-midnight-talk-tour-and-reveal-new-single-america-online/ \|archive-date=April 6, 2022 \|access-date=April 6, 2022 \|website=NewRetroWave}}</ref><blockquote>''As a kid you’re sort of [disconnected] from the world… But when you’re in your teenage years, everything is sort of inner-conflict, relationships, all happening at once. The tensions of romantic love, acceptance in groups and things like that.

	''…it’s not a sunset right? It’s more of a sort of blog track. I love going on vaporwave track playlists on youtube. I love the low-grade, low-fi, bitcrushed sound – it’s like that but with a bit more of a cleaner palette, a cleaner mix. So, that one will set the tone. Tyler is definitely on it, but in a bit more of a…vocodery way.''</blockquote>In an interview with ''Magnetic Magazine'' after the release of ''Monsters'', ~~the band discussed the themes of the song as well as its evolution and production~~:<ref>{{Cite web \|last=Middleton \|first=Ryan \|date=July 10, 2020 \|title=The Director's Cut: The Midnight - MONSTERS - Magnetic Magazine \|url=https://www.magneticmag.com/2020/07/the-directors-cut-the-midnight-monsters/ \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220406164142/https://www.magneticmag.com/2020/07/the-directors-cut-the-midnight-monsters/ \|archive-date=April 6, 2022 \|access-date=April 6, 2022 \|website=Magnetic Magazine}}</ref><blockquote>'''''Tim''': This sets the tone for our album. We’re in the era of connectivity. Gone are the days of being a kid, riding around on bikes, exploring the world around you. You’re a teen now and your nights are spent online in your bedroom, logged onto chat rooms, while the door to your parents is shut and you are searching for your own identity.''<br /><br />'''''Tyler''': This track was basically done and we’d decided to do it as an instrumental, but at the last minute I decided to try and write something. By that time we knew what the album was about roughly. This became the premise of the record- is love necessarily reciprocal- is hate? What is intimacy without proximity? Are we really connected at the bottom of all of this, especially when “all of this” is mediated by so many layers that seem un-human.''</blockquote>		''…it’s not a sunset right? It’s more of a sort of blog track. I love going on vaporwave track playlists on youtube. I love the low-grade, low-fi, bitcrushed sound – it’s like that but with a bit more of a cleaner palette, a cleaner mix. So, that one will set the tone. Tyler is definitely on it, but in a bit more of a…vocodery way.''</blockquote>In an interview with ''Magnetic Magazine'' after the release of ''Monsters'', The Midnight further stated:<ref>{{Cite web \|last=Middleton \|first=Ryan \|date=July 10, 2020 \|title=The Director's Cut: The Midnight - MONSTERS - Magnetic Magazine \|url=https://www.magneticmag.com/2020/07/the-directors-cut-the-midnight-monsters/ \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220406164142/https://www.magneticmag.com/2020/07/the-directors-cut-the-midnight-monsters/ \|archive-date=April 6, 2022 \|access-date=April 6, 2022 \|website=Magnetic Magazine}}</ref><blockquote>'''''Tim''': This sets the tone for our album. We’re in the era of connectivity. Gone are the days of being a kid, riding around on bikes, exploring the world around you. You’re a teen now and your nights are spent online in your bedroom, logged onto chat rooms, while the door to your parents is shut and you are searching for your own identity.''<br /><br />'''''Tyler''': This track was basically done and we’d decided to do it as an instrumental, but at the last minute I decided to try and write something. By that time we knew what the album was about roughly. This became the premise of the record- is love necessarily reciprocal- is hate? What is intimacy without proximity? Are we really connected at the bottom of all of this, especially when “all of this” is mediated by so many layers that seem un-human.''</blockquote>

	According to McEwan, the synth used in the opening of ''America Online'' is Serum with EchoMelt 2 added to get the uneven tape jitter effect.<ref>{{Cite web \|date=May 21, 2019 \|title=We are The Midnight and we’re playing Electric Forest for the first time. Ask us Anything! : ElectricForest \|url=https://www.reddit.com/r/ElectricForest/comments/brea4u/we_are_the_midnight_and_were_playing_electric/eoczw2s/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220406164714/https://www.reddit.com/r/ElectricForest/comments/brea4u/we_are_the_midnight_and_were_playing_electric/eoczw2s/?context=3 \|archive-date=April 6, 2022 \|access-date=April 6, 2022 \|website=Reddit}}</ref> The vocoder used is a mix of VocalSynth 2 from iZotope and BitSpeek.		According to McEwan, the synth used in the opening of ''America Online'' is Serum with EchoMelt 2 added to get the uneven tape jitter effect.<ref>{{Cite web \|date=May 21, 2019 \|title=We are The Midnight and we’re playing Electric Forest for the first time. Ask us Anything! : ElectricForest \|url=https://www.reddit.com/r/ElectricForest/comments/brea4u/we_are_the_midnight_and_were_playing_electric/eoczw2s/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220406164714/https://www.reddit.com/r/ElectricForest/comments/brea4u/we_are_the_midnight_and_were_playing_electric/eoczw2s/?context=3 \|archive-date=April 6, 2022 \|access-date=April 6, 2022 \|website=Reddit}}</ref> The vocoder used is a mix of VocalSynth 2 from iZotope and BitSpeek.

Timothy: Text replacement - "\z" to "{{TheMidnight}}"

2023-06-22T02:20:36Z

Text replacement - "\z" to "{{TheMidnight}}"

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	During a tour stop in the [[Spring 2019 Tour]] about a month before the single's release, the band talked with ''NewRetroWave'' about ''America Online'':<ref>{{Cite web \|last=Zistler \|first=Andrew \|date=April 5, 2019 \|title=The Midnight Talk Tour and Reveal New Single - America Online - NewRetroWave - Stay Retro! {{!}} Live The 80's Dream! \|url=https://newretrowave.com/2019/04/05/the-midnight-talk-tour-and-reveal-new-single-america-online/ \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220406163748/https://newretrowave.com/2019/04/05/the-midnight-talk-tour-and-reveal-new-single-america-online/ \|archive-date=April 6, 2022 \|access-date=April 6, 2022 \|website=NewRetroWave}}</ref><blockquote>''As a kid you’re sort of [disconnected] from the world… But when you’re in your teenage years, everything is sort of inner-conflict, relationships, all happening at once. The tensions of romantic love, acceptance in groups and things like that.		During a tour stop in the [[Spring 2019 Tour]] about a month before the single's release, the band talked with ''NewRetroWave'' about ''America Online'':<ref>{{Cite web \|last=Zistler \|first=Andrew \|date=April 5, 2019 \|title=The Midnight Talk Tour and Reveal New Single - America Online - NewRetroWave - Stay Retro! {{!}} Live The 80's Dream! \|url=https://newretrowave.com/2019/04/05/the-midnight-talk-tour-and-reveal-new-single-america-online/ \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220406163748/https://newretrowave.com/2019/04/05/the-midnight-talk-tour-and-reveal-new-single-america-online/ \|archive-date=April 6, 2022 \|access-date=April 6, 2022 \|website=NewRetroWave}}</ref><blockquote>''As a kid you’re sort of [disconnected] from the world… But when you’re in your teenage years, everything is sort of inner-conflict, relationships, all happening at once. The tensions of romantic love, acceptance in groups and things like that.

	''…it’s not a sunset right? It’s more of a sort of blog track. I love going on vaporwave track playlists on youtube. I love the low-grade, low-fi, bitcrushed sound – it’s like that but with a bit more of a cleaner palette, a cleaner mix. So, that one will set the tone. Tyler is definitely on it, but in a bit more of a…vocodery way.''</blockquote>In an interview with ''Magnetic Magazine'' after the release of ''Monsters'', ~~the band discussed the themes of the song as well as its evolution and production~~:<ref>{{Cite web \|last=Middleton \|first=Ryan \|date=July 10, 2020 \|title=The Director's Cut: The Midnight - MONSTERS - Magnetic Magazine \|url=https://www.magneticmag.com/2020/07/the-directors-cut-the-midnight-monsters/ \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220406164142/https://www.magneticmag.com/2020/07/the-directors-cut-the-midnight-monsters/ \|archive-date=April 6, 2022 \|access-date=April 6, 2022 \|website=Magnetic Magazine}}</ref><blockquote>'''''Tim''': This sets the tone for our album. We’re in the era of connectivity. Gone are the days of being a kid, riding around on bikes, exploring the world around you. You’re a teen now and your nights are spent online in your bedroom, logged onto chat rooms, while the door to your parents is shut and you are searching for your own identity.''<br /><br />'''''Tyler''': This track was basically done and we’d decided to do it as an instrumental, but at the last minute I decided to try and write something. By that time we knew what the album was about roughly. This became the premise of the record- is love necessarily reciprocal- is hate? What is intimacy without proximity? Are we really connected at the bottom of all of this, especially when “all of this” is mediated by so many layers that seem un-human.''</blockquote>		''…it’s not a sunset right? It’s more of a sort of blog track. I love going on vaporwave track playlists on youtube. I love the low-grade, low-fi, bitcrushed sound – it’s like that but with a bit more of a cleaner palette, a cleaner mix. So, that one will set the tone. Tyler is definitely on it, but in a bit more of a…vocodery way.''</blockquote>In an interview with ''Magnetic Magazine'' after the release of ''Monsters'', The Midnight further stated:<ref>{{Cite web \|last=Middleton \|first=Ryan \|date=July 10, 2020 \|title=The Director's Cut: The Midnight - MONSTERS - Magnetic Magazine \|url=https://www.magneticmag.com/2020/07/the-directors-cut-the-midnight-monsters/ \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220406164142/https://www.magneticmag.com/2020/07/the-directors-cut-the-midnight-monsters/ \|archive-date=April 6, 2022 \|access-date=April 6, 2022 \|website=Magnetic Magazine}}</ref><blockquote>'''''Tim''': This sets the tone for our album. We’re in the era of connectivity. Gone are the days of being a kid, riding around on bikes, exploring the world around you. You’re a teen now and your nights are spent online in your bedroom, logged onto chat rooms, while the door to your parents is shut and you are searching for your own identity.''<br /><br />'''''Tyler''': This track was basically done and we’d decided to do it as an instrumental, but at the last minute I decided to try and write something. By that time we knew what the album was about roughly. This became the premise of the record- is love necessarily reciprocal- is hate? What is intimacy without proximity? Are we really connected at the bottom of all of this, especially when “all of this” is mediated by so many layers that seem un-human.''</blockquote>

	According to McEwan, the synth used in the opening of ''America Online'' is Serum with EchoMelt 2 added to get the uneven tape jitter effect.<ref>{{Cite web \|date=May 21, 2019 \|title=We are The Midnight and we’re playing Electric Forest for the first time. Ask us Anything! : ElectricForest \|url=https://www.reddit.com/r/ElectricForest/comments/brea4u/we_are_the_midnight_and_were_playing_electric/eoczw2s/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220406164714/https://www.reddit.com/r/ElectricForest/comments/brea4u/we_are_the_midnight_and_were_playing_electric/eoczw2s/?context=3 \|archive-date=April 6, 2022 \|access-date=April 6, 2022 \|website=Reddit}}</ref> The vocoder used is a mix of VocalSynth 2 from iZotope and BitSpeek.		According to McEwan, the synth used in the opening of ''America Online'' is Serum with EchoMelt 2 added to get the uneven tape jitter effect.<ref>{{Cite web \|date=May 21, 2019 \|title=We are The Midnight and we’re playing Electric Forest for the first time. Ask us Anything! : ElectricForest \|url=https://www.reddit.com/r/ElectricForest/comments/brea4u/we_are_the_midnight_and_were_playing_electric/eoczw2s/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220406164714/https://www.reddit.com/r/ElectricForest/comments/brea4u/we_are_the_midnight_and_were_playing_electric/eoczw2s/?context=3 \|archive-date=April 6, 2022 \|access-date=April 6, 2022 \|website=Reddit}}</ref> The vocoder used is a mix of VocalSynth 2 from iZotope and BitSpeek.