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Revision as of 15:50, 31 October 2023
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From The Floppy Disk
America Online
| "America Online" | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Single by The Midnight | ||||
| from the album Monsters | ||||
| Released | May 13, 2019 | |||
| Length | 5:49 | |||
| Label | Counter Records | |||
| Songwriter(s) | ||||
| Producer(s) | Tim McEwan | |||
| Monsters track listing | ||||
Monsters | ||||
| The Midnight singles chronology | ||||
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America Online[1] is a song by The Midnight. It is the first single and second track from their album Monsters. The single was released on May 13, 2019.[2]
The song was written by band members Tim McEwan and Tyler Lyle and produced by McEwan. It has a running time of five minutes and 49 seconds and is in the key of B minor.
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:[3]In an interview with Magnetic Magazine after the release of Monsters, The Midnight further stated:[4]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.
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.
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.
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.[5] The vocoder used is a mix of VocalSynth 2 from iZotope and BitSpeek.
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 Tim Berners-Lee at CERN.[6][7]
Lyrics
If I love you, will you love me?
If I want you, will you want me?
I’m reaching, are you reaching out?
If I touch you, will you touch me now?
Through the wires to the heart
Phantom fingers fumble in the dark
I thought I did; I felt a spark
Are we all one beating heart?
If I love you, will you love me?
If I hurt you, will you hurt me?
I’m reaching, are you reaching out?
If I touch you, will you touch me now?
Through the wires to the heart
Phantom fingers fumble in the dark
I thought I did; I felt a spark
Are we all one beating heart?
Or are we strangers?
Am I a stranger?
Lyrics source[2]
Official versions
America Online (Instrumental)
from Monsters (The Instrumentals)
References
- ↑ "America Online | The Midnight". Bandcamp. July 10, 2020. Archived from the original on December 15, 2021. Retrieved April 6, 2022.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "America Online | The Midnight". Bandcamp. May 3, 2019. Archived from the original on December 28, 2021. Retrieved April 6, 2022.
- ↑ Zistler, Andrew (April 5, 2019). "The Midnight Talk Tour and Reveal New Single - America Online - NewRetroWave - Stay Retro! | Live The 80's Dream!". NewRetroWave. Archived from the original on April 6, 2022. Retrieved April 6, 2022.
- ↑ Middleton, Ryan (July 10, 2020). "The Director's Cut: The Midnight - MONSTERS - Magnetic Magazine". Magnetic Magazine. Archived from the original on April 6, 2022. Retrieved April 6, 2022.
- ↑ "We are The Midnight and we're playing Electric Forest for the first time. Ask us Anything! : ElectricForest". Reddit. May 21, 2019. Archived from the original on April 6, 2022. Retrieved April 6, 2022.
- ↑ Nix, Elizabeth (August 4, 2016). "The World's First Web Site - HISTORY". HISTORY. Archived from the original on March 28, 2022. Retrieved April 6, 2022.
- ↑ "info.cern.ch". CERN. August 6, 1991. Archived from the original on April 15, 2022. Retrieved April 15, 2022.
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- 22nd October, 2026
- Music - Shapeshift (The Midnight Remix) by Dayseeker is released. The remix is one of six The Midnight remixes that will be on the Redux edition of Dayseeker's album Creature in The Black Night which releases on February 26, 2027.
- 19th October, 2026
- Tour - The Time Machines tour concludes in Monterrey.
- 16th October, 2026
- Music - A new version of 1989 by Nightly featuring The Midnight is released.
- 30th September, 2026
- Merch - Made in collaboration with We Are Rewind, a The Midnight-themed cassette player is announced that includes a copy of Syndicate on cassette. After the initial allotment of devices sold out in one day, an open pre-order was announced that will run until November 4.
- 9th September, 2026
- Tour - The fall leg of Time Machines tour begins in New Orleans.
- 5th August, 2026
- Tour - Bonnie McKee and Jessie Frye have been announced as the opening acts for the fall leg of the Time Machines tour.
- 23rd June, 2026
- Music - Sending Hearts To All My Dearies A Tribute To The Smashing Pumpkins has been announced. The tribute album will be released on August 14, 2026, and features a cover of Tonight, Tonight by The Midnight.
- 19th May, 2026
- Tour - A second North American leg has been added to the Time Machines tour. The leg will begin on September 9, 2026, in New Orleans and conclude on October 19, 2026, in Monterrey, spanning 30 shows.
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Did You Know?
- ...that The Midnight Remixed was the band's first album to be associated with a label and appear on a Billboard chart?
- ...that The Midnight's current logo debuted on the cover art of The Midnight Remixed?
- ...that Daytona had a working title of Daytona Beach?
- ...that Dream Away was described by Tim McEwan as being an ode to "Pure Moods compilations from the 90s"?
- ...that an early version of Jason used the backing track from what would become The Equaliser (Not Alone)?
- ...that WeMoveForward was the first song written by the band?
- ...that pop band Nightly was the opening act for two of The Midnight's tours and they later wrote a song together?
- ...that Brooklyn. Friday. Love. was originally a demo for the Tyler Lyle album Floating Years?
- ...that The Midnight's first live show outside of California was in Chicago?
- ...that Tim McEwan's brother Oliver is also a musician, but their parents are actors?
