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2021 EP by The Midnight and Magik*Magik Orchestra

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America Online

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"America Online"
Single by The Midnight
from the album Monsters
ReleasedMay 13, 2019 (2019-05-13)
Length5:49
LabelCounter Records
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Tim McEwan
Monsters track listing

Monsters

  1. "1991 (intro)"
  2. "America Online"
  3. "Dance With Somebody"
  4. "Seventeen"
  5. "Dream Away"
  6. "The Search for Ecco"
  7. "Prom Night"
  8. "Fire In The Sky"
  9. "Monsters"
  10. "Helvetica"
  11. "Brooklyn"
  12. "Deep Blue"
  13. "Night Skies"
  14. "City Dreams (interlude)"
  15. "Last Train"
The Midnight singles chronology
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Arcade Dreams
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America Online
(2019) 		Deep blue - single.jpg
Deep Blue
(2020)

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]

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.

In an interview with Magnetic Magazine after the release of Monsters, The Midnight further stated:[4]

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

from Monsters

America Online (Instrumental)

from Monsters (The Instrumentals)

References

  1. ↑ "America Online | The Midnight". Bandcamp. July 10, 2020. Archived from the original on December 15, 2021. Retrieved April 6, 2022.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "America Online | The Midnight". Bandcamp. May 3, 2019. Archived from the original on December 28, 2021. Retrieved April 6, 2022.
  3. ↑ 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.
  4. ↑ 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.
  5. ↑ "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.
  6. ↑ 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.
  7. ↑ "info.cern.ch". CERN. August 6, 1991. Archived from the original on April 15, 2022. Retrieved April 15, 2022.

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The Rearview Mirror

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The Rearview Mirror
EP by
The Midnight and Magik*Magik Orchestra
ReleasedJuly 23, 2021
Studio25th St. Recording (Oakland, CA)
GenreOrchestral
Length23:44
LabelThe Midnight Music
ProducerMinna Choi
The Midnight chronology
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Endless Summer (5 Year Anniversary Edition)
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The Rearview Mirror
(2021) 		Heroes - Album.jpg
Heroes
(2022)
Singles from The Rearview Mirror
  1. "Vampires"
    Released: July 9, 2021
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
nightfall.fr[1]

The Rearview Mirror is a collaborative EP by The Midnight with Magik*Magik Orchestra, released on July 23, 2021.[2] Released to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the band's album Endless Summer, the EP features five songs that have been re-imagined with orchestral arrangements performed by the Magik*Magik Orchestra. Vampires was released as a single from the EP on July 9, 2021.[3]

Singles

Vampires
July 9, 2021

Track listing

All tracks are written by Tim McEwan and Tyler Lyle.

The Rearview Mirror
No.TitleLength
1."Endless Summer"4:36
2."Vampires"4:02
3."The Comeback Kid"5:06
4."Sunset"4:32
5."Memories"5:25
Total length:23:44

Credits

  • Minna Choi - production, orchestral arrangements, music directing, conducting
  • Tim McEwan - vocal production, cover photo
  • Royce Whittaker - vocal editing
  • Tyler Lyle - vocals
  • The Magik*Magik Orchestra - instrumentation
  • Liana Berube - concertmaster
  • Stephanie Bibbo - principal 2nd violin
  • Evan Price - violin
  • Kathy Marshall-Biggs - violin
  • Ivo Bokulic - principal viola
  • Marcel Gemperli - viola
  • Lucas Chen - principal cello
  • Erin Wang - cello
  • Stephanie Payne - principal bass
  • Katrina Walter - flute & piccolo
  • Jeff Anderle - clarinet
  • Jason Slota - vibraphone & percussion
  • Debbie Neigher - piano
  • Meredith Clark - harp
  • Gabriel Shepard - engineering
  • Jace Mann - engineering assistance
  • Adam Muñoz at 501st Studios - mixing
  • Sarah Regis - mastering
  • Elena Strawn - interior photographs
  • Connor Dewhurst/IM NOT VERY CHILL - artwork and layout

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Release history and variants

Digital release history for The Rearview Mirror
Date Edition
July 23, 2021 Standard
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Physical release history for The Rearview Mirror
Year Format Color/Design
2021 LP Pool Blue
TM Web Music RearViewMirror LP Blue F.webp
This and White are the first vinyl variants. This variant was limited to 300 copies and was signed by Tim and Tyler.
2021 LP White
TM Web Music RearViewMirror LP White F.webp
This and Pool Blue are the first vinyl variants.

References

  1. ↑ "The MIDNIGHT : THE REARVIEW MIRROR (2021)". nightfall.fr. February 4, 2022. Archived from the original on December 2, 2022. Retrieved June 29, 2023.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "The Rearview Mirror | The Midnight". Bandcamp. July 23, 2021. Archived from the original on December 19, 2021. Retrieved April 3, 2022.
  3. ↑ "The Rearview Mirror EP | To celebrate the 5 year anniversary of Endless Summer, we wanted to try something different as we looked back. Presenting 'The Rearview Mirror'. An EP of... | By The Midnight | Facebook". Facebook. July 9, 2021. Archived from the original on June 11, 2023. Retrieved June 11, 2023.
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