Brooklyn. Friday. Love.: Difference between revisions

2022 The Midnight song (Fourth single and track two from Heroes)
No edit summary
No edit summary
 
(73 intermediate revisions by 2 users not shown)
Line 1: Line 1:
[[File:Brooklyn Friday Love - Single.jpg|thumb|Brooklyn. Friday. Love. single cover]]
{{SHORTDESC:2022 The Midnight song (Fourth single and track two from Heroes)}}
'''Brooklyn. Friday. Love.''' is a song by [[The Midnight]]. It is the fourth single from their upcoming album [[Heroes]]. The single will release on August 3, 2022.<ref>{{Cite web |date=July 30, 2022 |title=the midnight on Twitter |url=https://twitter.com/TheMidnightLA/status/1553467024042364928 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220802122840/https://twitter.com/TheMidnightLA/status/1553467024042364928 |archive-date=August 2, 2022 |access-date=August 2, 2022 |website=Twitter}}</ref>
<div class="hidden-image">
[[File:Brooklyn Friday Love - Single.jpg|300px|thumb|Brooklyn. Friday. Love. single cover]]
</div>
{{Infobox song
| name          = Brooklyn. Friday. Love.
| cover        = Brooklyn Friday Love - Single.jpg
| caption      =
| type          = Single
| artist        = [[The Midnight]]
| album        = [[Heroes]]
| released      = {{start date|2022|8|3}}
| length        = {{duration|m=3|s=52}}
| label        = Counter Records
| writer        = * [[Tim McEwan]]
* [[Tyler Lyle]]
* [[Nikki Flores]]
* [[Jupiter Winter#Royce Whittaker|Royce Whittaker]]
| producer      = Tim McEwan
| tracks  = {{Hidden
| title        =
| text        = Heroes
# "[[Golden Gate]]"
# "[[Brooklyn. Friday. Love.]]"
# "[[Heartbeat]]"
# "[[A Place of Her Own]]"
# "[[Heroes (song)|Heroes]]"
# "[[Heart Worth Breaking]]"
# "[[Loved By You]]"
# "[[Aerostar]]"
# "[[Change Your Heart or Die]]"
# "[[Avalanche]]"
# "[[Souvenir]]"
# "[[Photograph]]"
# "[[Energy Never Dies, It Just Transforms]]"
}}
| misc          ={{Extra chronology
| artist    = The Midnight singles
| type      =
| prev_title = [[File:Avalanche_-_Single.jpg|50px|link=|frameless]]<br>[[Avalanche]]
| prev_year  = 2022
| title      = [[File:Brooklyn_Friday_Love_-_Single.jpg|50px|link=|frameless]]<br>Brooklyn. Friday. Love.
| year      = 2022
| next_title = [[File:Heart_worth_breaking_-_single.jpg|50px|link=|frameless]]<br>[[Heart Worth Breaking]]
| next_year  = 2022
}}{{Music|link=https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=4271010669/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=f81674/tracklist=false/artwork=none/artwork=none/track=2807462466/transparent=true/}}
}}
 
'''Brooklyn. Friday. Love.''' is a song by [[The Midnight]]. It is the fourth single and second track from their album [[Heroes]]. The single was released on August 3, 2022.<ref>{{Cite web |date=July 30, 2022 |title=the midnight on Twitter |url=https://twitter.com/TheMidnightLA/status/1553467024042364928 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220802122840/https://twitter.com/TheMidnightLA/status/1553467024042364928 |archive-date=August 2, 2022 |access-date=August 2, 2022 |website=Twitter}}</ref>
 
The song was written by band members [[Tyler Lyle]] and [[Tim McEwan]] alongside [[Nikki Flores]] and [[Royce Whittaker]]. It was produced by McEwan. It has a running time of three minutes and 52 seconds and is in the key of [[wikipedia:F major|F major]]. ''Brooklyn. Friday. Love.'' has its roots in Lyle's ''From The Secret Lair'' project, first appearing on episodes 7 and 25 of season one before being released on ''Mr. Green's B Sides''. A breakdown of the track by McEwan was streamed on Twitch on August 5, 2022.<ref>{{Cite web |date=August 5, 2022 |title=the midnight on Twitter |url=https://twitter.com/TheMidnightLA/status/1555629094376579072 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220805190353/https://twitter.com/TheMidnightLA/status/1555629094376579072 |archive-date=August 5, 2022 |access-date=August 5, 2022 |website=Twitter}}</ref>
 
In an interview with ''Magnetic Magazine'', Lyle elaborated on the song's meaning:<ref>{{Cite web |last=Vance |first=Will |date=August 4, 2022 |title=Lyrics To The Midnight's 'Brooklyn.Friday.Love.' And The Story That Put Words To Music - Magnetic Magazine |url=https://www.magneticmag.com/2022/08/lyrics-to-the-midnights-brooklyn-friday-love/?fbclid=IwAR3JPuEzsDJDq4ESNQzv3mT7DU9wJ8dXsRbyYLXA9HQONblETD9avL3BtWk |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220805063713/https://www.magneticmag.com/2022/08/lyrics-to-the-midnights-brooklyn-friday-love/ |archive-date=August 5, 2022 |access-date=June 11, 2023 |website=Magnetic Magazine}}</ref>
<blockquote>
''I wrote the initial version of Brooklyn. Friday. Love. in 2016 as a surf rock song while I was living in Ft. Greene. On days when I couldn’t stand staring at my computer screen anymore- usually around 4:00, I would get on a Citibike and ride up Flushing Avenue around the Navy Yard to Williamsburg.''
 
''My wife was working long hours at a corporate job in Midtown and usually wasn’t home before 8, so I would walk, well, I would walk and drink Happy Hour bourbon and cokes at Skinny Dennis, and I would look for books at Spoonbill & Sugartown, and vinyl at Rough Trade.''
 
''There was a refreshingly weird creative energy that permeated gentrifying Brooklyn that I’d never felt before. It struck me as a kind of weirdo heaven for a kid who grew up in the Bible Belt. When I die I want to go to Skinny Dennis and hear Zydeco or some Bushwick loft party Modular Synth set. Anyway, the place changed.''
 
''Apple and Whole Foods soon arrived in Williamsburg and Ft. Greene, the rents went up, the neighbors were no longer starving artist types. My wife and I also grew up- we had a baby and shortly thereafter we decided to end our five year relationship with Brooklyn.''
 
''The song became a Midnight song in 2021- two years after I left Brooklyn for Atlanta. I went back to visit New York for the first time during a lull in COVID waves to see my old neighborhood. 1/3 of the businesses were closed. There was more graffiti, and trash piled on the street like I’d never seen it before. I felt like I was seeing the ghost of an old friend. Reworking the song as an idyll to fit The Midnight felt like a way to honor the strangeness and vibrancy of a Brooklyn that seemed to disappear.''


''Thankfully most of the splendor has returned to the shabby neighborhoods I love, but I’m approaching my late 30s now, with a family and a mortgage and a more predictable life. The thought of drinking absinthe, or staying up past midnight to watch live music, or spending a day writing indie pop songs in an unheated Bushwick squat is unimaginable. This song is about an ideal that may still exist. It just can’t exist for me anymore.''
</blockquote><br>


<!-- == Track info ==
== Music video==
{{Music|link=https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=4271010669/size=small/bgcol=333333/linkcol=F81472/track=141771970/transparent=true/}}
[[File:Brooklyn Friday Love.mp4|400px|thumb|left]]
On August 9, 2022, a music video was announced for ''Brooklyn. Friday. Love.''<ref>{{Cite web |date=August 9, 2022 |title=the midnight on Twitter |url=https://twitter.com/TheMidnightLA/status/1557091892356980736 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220809201747/https://twitter.com/TheMidnightLA/status/1557091892356980736 |archive-date=August 9, 2022 |access-date=August 9, 2022 |website=Twitter}}</ref> The video premiered on August 11, 2022.<ref>{{Cite web |date=August 11, 2022 |title=The Midnight - 'Brooklyn. Friday. Love.' (Official Video) - YouTube |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNup_awYjUI |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220811161622/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNup_awYjUI |archive-date=August 11, 2022 |access-date=August 11, 2022 |website=YouTube}}</ref> It was directed by Caleb Mallery and filmed at Little Trouble in Atlanta, GA on July 17, 2022.<ref>{{Cite web |date=July 17, 2022 |title=Instagram photo by the midnight • Jul 17, 2022 at 4:53 PM |url=https://www.instagram.com/p/CgIKPIEpnT9/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.ph/c3Sei |archive-date=April 21, 2024 |access-date=September 8, 2022 |website=Instagram}}</ref>


The song was written by band members [[Tyler Lyle]] and [[Tim McEwan]] alongside Jessie Frye. It was produced by McEwan. It has a running time of four minutes and 27 seconds and is in the key of [[wikipedia:D-flat major|D-flat major]].
The video begins with a rainy outside view of a bar, said to be "Somewhere in Brooklyn". The scene moves inside the bar and various patrons are seen congregating on the dance floor in front of a stage. An old CRT TV advertising karaoke with [[Comtek]] branding is shown next, and the song begins. A female patron (portrayed by Julia Vasi) steps up to the microphone on stage and begins singing the song. Various happenings of bar patrons are shown, some aligning with the lyrics of the song. After the line "across the bar sat the hip-hip purist", Tyler Lyle and Tim McEwan are seen conversing at a table, their only appearance in the video. After the first chorus, a male bar patron (portrayed by Daniel Di Amante) is seen taking a seat at an empty table. As the song progresses, the camera continues to alternate between shots of the TV displaying the song lyrics and patrons beginning to take note of the woman singing on stage. Eventually, everyone begins singing along with the song and they make their way to the dance floor. The man and the woman on stage lock eyes, and begin to dance with each other as the other patrons dance around them as the credits roll, concluding the video.


== Track listing ==
==Track listing==
{{Track listing
{{Track listing
| headline = Avalanche
| headline = Brooklyn. Friday. Love.
| title1 = Avalanche
| title1 = Brooklyn. Friday. Love.
| length1 = 4:27
| length1 = 3:52
| writer1 = [[Tim McEwan]], [[Tyler Lyle]], Jessie Frye
| writer1 = {{hlist|Tim McEwan|Tyler Lyle|Nikki Flores|Royce Whittaker}}
| title2 = [[Heartbeat]]
| title2 = [[Heartbeat]]
| length2 = 3:50
| length2 = 3:50
| writer2 = McEwan, Lyle, [[Nikki Flores]], [[Royce Whittaker]]
| writer2 = {{hlist|McEwan|Lyle|Flores|Whittaker}}
| title3 = [[Change Your Heart or Die]]
| title3 = [[Avalanche]]
| length3 = 3:31
| length3 = 4:27
| writer3 = McEwan, Lyle
| writer3 = {{hlist|McEwan|Lyle|Jessie Frye}}
| total_length = 11:48
| title4 = [[Change Your Heart or Die]]
| length4 = 3:31
| writer4 = {{hlist|McEwan|Lyle}}
| total_length = 15:40
}}
}}
-->
 
<!-- == Lyrics ==
==Lyrics==
<blockquote><poem>
<blockquote><poem>
You were a whisper in the night
Day-trader in a tie-dye jumpsuit
And I loved you for a summer
And a gutter punk kid with a neck tattoo
But now the garden of delights lies under snow cover
Hooking up at the unisex bathroom
Sail on in my memory
It was Brooklyn
I'll wave from the shoreline
it was Friday
A ship so grand you cannot believe
it was love


Disembarking on an avalanche
Across the bar sat the hip-hop purist
From butterfly wings
Arguing with the jazz obscurists
Saw my last chance
And in the corner were the terrified tourists
In a faded dream
Brooklyn. Friday. Love.
When it's gone
Wherever you land
Sing your song
Take this dance
Avalanche


We were a star-crossed fantasy
Angel choirs on the corner all night
That was never gonna hold us
Sing Johnny Cash and Jackson 5
Or our future histories
Little heaven you can stumble into
But maybe it was just to mold us
We got your invite tonight
Sail on in my memory
I'll wave from the shoreline
A ship so grand you cannot believe


Disembarking on an avalanche
Don't try to fight it
From butterfly wings
Oh, it's just Brooklyn on a Friday
Sold my last chance
Don't try to fight it
For a faded dream
Oh, it's just Brooklyn on a Friday
When it's gone
Wherever you land
Sing your song
Take this dance
Avalanche


If I had known you
They come from Mississippi and La La Land
I would have told you
New wave hippies and the pop goth glam
Would have skipped this and
It's just 'cause parents don't understand
Missed this
It was Brooklyn
Waterfall in slow motion
It was Friday
Devotion of a love
It was love
Unsuitable but beautiful
 
If I'd have known you
From this roof you can see the stars
I'd have come back a thousand times
We are the left bank dreamers
Just for the ride
And the avant garde
I'll sing my borrowed song on your borrowed guitar
It was Brooklyn
It was Friday
It was love
 
Angel choirs on the midnight G train
Some Beastie Boys and Kurt Cobain
Revolution you can learn to dance to
With a friendly face on the way
 
Don't try to fight it
Oh, it's just Brooklyn on a Friday
Don't try to fight it
Oh, it's just Brooklyn on a Friday
 
Bushwick Avenue
Bedford Avenue
Franklin Avenue
I'm on my way
Where are you
 
Don't try to fight it
Oh, it's just Brooklyn on a Friday
Don't try to fight it
Oh, it's just Brooklyn on a Friday
 
Don't try to fight it
Oh, it's just Brooklyn on a Friday
Don't try to fight it
Oh, it's just Brooklyn on a Friday
 
It's just Brooklyn on a Friday
It's just Brooklyn on a Friday
Bushwick Avenue
It's just Brooklyn on a Friday
Bedford Avenue
It's just Brooklyn on a Friday
Franklin Avenue
It's just Brooklyn on a Friday
I'm on my way
It's just Brooklyn on a Friday


Avalanche
From butterfly wings
Sold my last chance
For a faded dream
When it's gone
Wherever you land
Sing your song
Take this dance
Avalanche
</poem></blockquote>
</poem></blockquote>
-->


== References ==
== Official versions and other media ==
<div class="media-group">
{{MusicTitle|link=https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=4271010669/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=fe7eaf/tracklist=false/track=2807462466/transparent=true/|caption=Brooklyn. Friday. Love.|caption2=from [[Heroes]]}}
{{MusicTitle|link=https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=1438081020/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=fe7eaf/tracklist=false/track=643711833/transparent=true/|caption=Brooklyn. Friday. Love. - Instrumental|caption2=from ''Heroes (& Instrumentals)''}}{{MusicTitle|link=https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=703608706/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=fe7eaf/tracklist=false/track=3179529341/transparent=true/|caption=Brooklyn. Friday. Love. (Live)|caption2=from [[Red, White and Bruised: The Midnight Live]]}}[[File:BrooklynFridayLoveKaraokeVersion.mp4|thumb|Official Karaoke Version]]
</div>
 
==References==
<references />
<references />
[[Category:Singles]]
[[Category:Singles]]
<noinclude>
<noinclude>
[[Category:Songs]]‎</noinclude>
[[Category:Songs]]‎</noinclude>
{{#related:Comtek}}
{{#related:Heroes}}
{{#related:Change Your Heart or Die}}
[[Category:Heroes]]
[[Category:Heroes]]
[[Category:Music videos]]
[[Category:Floppy Disk Articles]]
{{TheMidnight}}

Latest revision as of 17:23, 21 April 2024

Brooklyn. Friday. Love. single cover
"Brooklyn. Friday. Love."
Brooklyn Friday Love - Single.jpg
Single by The Midnight
from the album Heroes
ReleasedAugust 3, 2022 (2022-08-03)
Length3:52
LabelCounter Records
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Tim McEwan
Heroes track listing
The Midnight singles chronology
Avalanche - Single.jpg
Avalanche

(2022)
Brooklyn Friday Love - Single.jpg
Brooklyn. Friday. Love.

(2022)
Heart worth breaking - single.jpg
Heart Worth Breaking

(2022)

Brooklyn. Friday. Love. is a song by The Midnight. It is the fourth single and second track from their album Heroes. The single was released on August 3, 2022.[1]

The song was written by band members Tyler Lyle and Tim McEwan alongside Nikki Flores and Royce Whittaker. It was produced by McEwan. It has a running time of three minutes and 52 seconds and is in the key of F major. Brooklyn. Friday. Love. has its roots in Lyle's From The Secret Lair project, first appearing on episodes 7 and 25 of season one before being released on Mr. Green's B Sides. A breakdown of the track by McEwan was streamed on Twitch on August 5, 2022.[2]

In an interview with Magnetic Magazine, Lyle elaborated on the song's meaning:[3]

I wrote the initial version of Brooklyn. Friday. Love. in 2016 as a surf rock song while I was living in Ft. Greene. On days when I couldn’t stand staring at my computer screen anymore- usually around 4:00, I would get on a Citibike and ride up Flushing Avenue around the Navy Yard to Williamsburg.

My wife was working long hours at a corporate job in Midtown and usually wasn’t home before 8, so I would walk, well, I would walk and drink Happy Hour bourbon and cokes at Skinny Dennis, and I would look for books at Spoonbill & Sugartown, and vinyl at Rough Trade.

There was a refreshingly weird creative energy that permeated gentrifying Brooklyn that I’d never felt before. It struck me as a kind of weirdo heaven for a kid who grew up in the Bible Belt. When I die I want to go to Skinny Dennis and hear Zydeco or some Bushwick loft party Modular Synth set. Anyway, the place changed.

Apple and Whole Foods soon arrived in Williamsburg and Ft. Greene, the rents went up, the neighbors were no longer starving artist types. My wife and I also grew up- we had a baby and shortly thereafter we decided to end our five year relationship with Brooklyn.

The song became a Midnight song in 2021- two years after I left Brooklyn for Atlanta. I went back to visit New York for the first time during a lull in COVID waves to see my old neighborhood. 1/3 of the businesses were closed. There was more graffiti, and trash piled on the street like I’d never seen it before. I felt like I was seeing the ghost of an old friend. Reworking the song as an idyll to fit The Midnight felt like a way to honor the strangeness and vibrancy of a Brooklyn that seemed to disappear.

Thankfully most of the splendor has returned to the shabby neighborhoods I love, but I’m approaching my late 30s now, with a family and a mortgage and a more predictable life. The thought of drinking absinthe, or staying up past midnight to watch live music, or spending a day writing indie pop songs in an unheated Bushwick squat is unimaginable. This song is about an ideal that may still exist. It just can’t exist for me anymore.


Music video

On August 9, 2022, a music video was announced for Brooklyn. Friday. Love.[4] The video premiered on August 11, 2022.[5] It was directed by Caleb Mallery and filmed at Little Trouble in Atlanta, GA on July 17, 2022.[6]

The video begins with a rainy outside view of a bar, said to be "Somewhere in Brooklyn". The scene moves inside the bar and various patrons are seen congregating on the dance floor in front of a stage. An old CRT TV advertising karaoke with Comtek branding is shown next, and the song begins. A female patron (portrayed by Julia Vasi) steps up to the microphone on stage and begins singing the song. Various happenings of bar patrons are shown, some aligning with the lyrics of the song. After the line "across the bar sat the hip-hip purist", Tyler Lyle and Tim McEwan are seen conversing at a table, their only appearance in the video. After the first chorus, a male bar patron (portrayed by Daniel Di Amante) is seen taking a seat at an empty table. As the song progresses, the camera continues to alternate between shots of the TV displaying the song lyrics and patrons beginning to take note of the woman singing on stage. Eventually, everyone begins singing along with the song and they make their way to the dance floor. The man and the woman on stage lock eyes, and begin to dance with each other as the other patrons dance around them as the credits roll, concluding the video.

Track listing

Brooklyn. Friday. Love.
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Brooklyn. Friday. Love."
  • Tim McEwan
  • Tyler Lyle
  • Nikki Flores
  • Royce Whittaker
3:52
2."Heartbeat"
  • McEwan
  • Lyle
  • Flores
  • Whittaker
3:50
3."Avalanche"
  • McEwan
  • Lyle
  • Jessie Frye
4:27
4."Change Your Heart or Die"
  • McEwan
  • Lyle
3:31
Total length:15:40

Lyrics

Day-trader in a tie-dye jumpsuit
And a gutter punk kid with a neck tattoo
Hooking up at the unisex bathroom
It was Brooklyn
it was Friday
it was love

Across the bar sat the hip-hop purist
Arguing with the jazz obscurists
And in the corner were the terrified tourists
Brooklyn. Friday. Love.

Angel choirs on the corner all night
Sing Johnny Cash and Jackson 5
Little heaven you can stumble into
We got your invite tonight

Don't try to fight it
Oh, it's just Brooklyn on a Friday
Don't try to fight it
Oh, it's just Brooklyn on a Friday

They come from Mississippi and La La Land
New wave hippies and the pop goth glam
It's just 'cause parents don't understand
It was Brooklyn
It was Friday
It was love

From this roof you can see the stars
We are the left bank dreamers
And the avant garde
I'll sing my borrowed song on your borrowed guitar
It was Brooklyn
It was Friday
It was love

Angel choirs on the midnight G train
Some Beastie Boys and Kurt Cobain
Revolution you can learn to dance to
With a friendly face on the way

Don't try to fight it
Oh, it's just Brooklyn on a Friday
Don't try to fight it
Oh, it's just Brooklyn on a Friday

Bushwick Avenue
Bedford Avenue
Franklin Avenue
I'm on my way
Where are you

Don't try to fight it
Oh, it's just Brooklyn on a Friday
Don't try to fight it
Oh, it's just Brooklyn on a Friday

Don't try to fight it
Oh, it's just Brooklyn on a Friday
Don't try to fight it
Oh, it's just Brooklyn on a Friday

It's just Brooklyn on a Friday
It's just Brooklyn on a Friday
Bushwick Avenue
It's just Brooklyn on a Friday
Bedford Avenue
It's just Brooklyn on a Friday
Franklin Avenue
It's just Brooklyn on a Friday
I'm on my way
It's just Brooklyn on a Friday

Official versions and other media

Brooklyn. Friday. Love.

from Heroes

Brooklyn. Friday. Love. - Instrumental

from Heroes (& Instrumentals)

Brooklyn. Friday. Love. (Live)

from Red, White and Bruised: The Midnight Live

Official Karaoke Version

References

  1. "the midnight on Twitter". Twitter. July 30, 2022. Archived from the original on August 2, 2022. Retrieved August 2, 2022.
  2. "the midnight on Twitter". Twitter. August 5, 2022. Archived from the original on August 5, 2022. Retrieved August 5, 2022.
  3. Vance, Will (August 4, 2022). "Lyrics To The Midnight's 'Brooklyn.Friday.Love.' And The Story That Put Words To Music - Magnetic Magazine". Magnetic Magazine. Archived from the original on August 5, 2022. Retrieved June 11, 2023.
  4. "the midnight on Twitter". Twitter. August 9, 2022. Archived from the original on August 9, 2022. Retrieved August 9, 2022.
  5. "The Midnight - 'Brooklyn. Friday. Love.' (Official Video) - YouTube". YouTube. August 11, 2022. Archived from the original on August 11, 2022. Retrieved August 11, 2022.
  6. "Instagram photo by the midnight • Jul 17, 2022 at 4:53 PM". Instagram. July 17, 2022. Archived from the original on April 21, 2024. Retrieved September 8, 2022.