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"America Online"
"America Online"
Single by The Midnight
from the album Monsters
Released	May 13, 2019
Length	5:49
Label	Counter Records
Songwriter(s)	Tim McEwan; Tyler Lyle;
Producer(s)	Tim McEwan
Monsters track listing
	Monsters "1991 (intro)"; "America Online"; "Dance With Somebody"; "Seventeen"; "Dream Away"; "The Search for Ecco"; "Prom Night"; "Fire In The Sky"; "Monsters"; "Helvetica"; "Brooklyn"; "Deep Blue"; "Night Skies"; "City Dreams (interlude)"; "Last Train";
The Midnight singles chronology

The Midnight Remixed
The Midnight Remixed
Remix album by The Midnight
Released	August 14, 2017
Genre	Synthwave; Electronic; Progressive House;
Length	97:50
Label	Silk Music
The Midnight chronology
Singles from The Midnight Remixed
	"WeMoveForward (incl. Talamanca Remix)"; Released: March 28, 2016; "Days of Thunder (incl. PROFF pres. Soultorque Remix)"; Released: August 1, 2016; "Sunset (incl. Michael Cassette Remix)"; Released: August 7, 2017; "Synthetic (Mango, We Are All Astronauts, Lost Empire Remixes)"; Released: December 18, 2017;

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The Midnight Remixed

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The Midnight Remixed is the first remix album by The Midnight. It was released through Silk Music on August 14, 2017.^[1] The album contains remixes of songs from Days of Thunder and Endless Summer.

Prior to the release of The Midnight Remixed, Silk Music issued singles for the songs WeMoveForward, Sunset, and Days of Thunder.^[2]^[3]^[4] These single releases included the original songs as well as their corresponding remixes that would later be included on the album. A fourth single, Synthetic, was issued after the album's release and contains an additional four remixes of the song that didn't appear on the album.^[5]

The Midnight Remixed was a milestone release for the band. It was their first album to be associated with a label and the first to make an appearance on a Billboard chart, where it charted at number 22 on the Billboard Dance/Electronic Albums Chart.^[6]^[7] It was also the first The Midnight album to feature the band's second logo on the cover art, which continues to be used today. The success of The Midnight Remixed led to Silk Music releasing a second The Midnight remix album two years later, The Midnight Remixed 02.

America Online

America Online^[8] 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.^[1]

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:^[9]

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:^[10]

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.^[11] 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.^[12]^[13]

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