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Songs by Tim McEwan

Tim McEwan playing live with The Midnight

A growing list of songs produced, written or performed by Tim McEwan.
McEwan revealed some of these in a thread on Twitter in September 2021, by tweeting out a Spotify playlist with 12 songs produced or written by him. In the same thread, he confirmed that he produced 2 songs of of danish X-Factor winner Martin Hedegaards debut album.

Additional songs has been produced or written, as McEwan is a member of the production group Deekay, inclding Electric for the group Blush.

This list doesn't include songs written or produced for The Midnight. For a list of those see songs.

Songs by Tim McEwan part 1

No.	Title	Artist	Length
1.	"Eyes Wide Shut"	JLS, Tinie Tempah	3:50
2.	"Superhero"	JLS	3:19
3.	"Keep Me Hangin'"	Medina	3:20
4.	"Waiting For Love"	Medina	4:00
5.	"Like You Hurt Me"	Medina	3:41
6.	"Hvis Bare"	Medina, Skinz	4:44
7.	"Glow In The Dark"	The Wanted	3:35
8.	"Sommer"	Page Four	4:06
9.	"Vinder"	Page Four	3:39
10.	"17 år"	Page Four	3:46
11.	"Du Og Jeg - Magi I Luften"	Page Four	3:49
12.	"Holder Fast"	Page Four	3:10
13.	"Whem I'm With You"	Martin Hedegaard	3:19
14.	"Where Do We Go"	Martin Hedegaard	3:52
15.	"Colors"	Deekay	4:33
16.	"Electric"	Blush	3:32
17.	"R U Feeling Me"	Dj Mac & Tim McEwan	4:53
18.	"Children of the Sun"	Alex Moreno	3:22
19.	"Five Ways"	Steve McCarthy & Tim McEwan	3:47
20.	"Kære Mor"	Noah	3:06

Songs by Tim McEwan part 2

No.	Title	Artist	Length
1.	"Let Me Know"	A R I Z O N A	3:41
2.	"Fall Over"	Lemar	4:06
3.	"Tænder Mig"	Sukkerchok	3:06
4.	"Wasted On You"	New Kids On The Block	3:38

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Brooklyn. Friday. Love.

Brooklyn. Friday. Love. single cover

"Brooklyn. Friday. Love."
Single by The Midnight
from the album Heroes
Released	August 3, 2022 (2022-08-03)
Length	3:52
Label	Counter Records
Songwriter(s)	Tim McEwan Tyler Lyle Nikki Flores Royce Whittaker
Producer(s)	Tim McEwan
Heroes track listing
Heroes "Golden Gate" "Brooklyn. Friday. Love." "Heartbeat" "A Place of Her Own" "Heroes" "Heart Worth Breaking" "Loved By You" "Aerostar" "Change Your Heart or Die" "Avalanche" "Souvenir" "Photograph" "Energy Never Dies, It Just Transforms"
The Midnight singles chronology
Avalanche (2022) Brooklyn. Friday. Love. (2022) 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.

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.

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

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. The video premiered on August 11, 2022. It was directed by Caleb Mallery and filmed at Little Trouble in Atlanta, GA on July 17, 2022.

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.	Title	Writer(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

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Horror Show

Horror Show
EP by The Midnight
Released	October 16, 2020 (Amazon Music) March 19, 2021
Genre	Synthwave Rock
Length	23:54
Label	Counter Records
Producer	Tim McEwan Essenger
The Midnight chronology
Monsters (2020) Horror Show (2020) Endless Summer (5 Year Anniversary Edition) (2021)
Singles from Horror Show
"Neon Medusa" Released: March 3, 2021

Horror Show is the second extended play (EP) by The Midnight. It was initially released through Counter Records on October 16, 2020, exclusively through Amazon Music for streaming. The EP was made available on all platforms on March 19, 2021, following the release of Neon Medusa as a single earlier in the month.

Background and composition

The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted The Midnight's plans to tour and promote their new album, Monsters. To get fans engaged with the band during the pandemic, an alternate reality game (ARG) began on September 24, 2020, and continued through October 15, 2020, with fans working together each day remotely to solve clues and discover hidden prizes. On October 13, 2020, the prize was a link to an empty Dropbox folder labeled "The Midnight - New Album". A Twitch channel by the name of "halfinlightandhalfindark" (a reference to a lyric in Last Train) was also discovered, and the channel posted a message stating "WEDNESDAY 10/14 @ 12 PM EST." At that time, the EP was streamed for the first time and its title of Horror Show was also revealed. After the stream ended, it was confirmed that the EP would release on October 16, 2020. The EP's initial exclusivity to Amazon Music was in part due to the company helping fund its production. During the time of the original October release, physical copies of Horror Show were available to pre-order from the band's online store, which included a download link to a digital version of the EP including the instrumentals.

Four of the six songs on Horror Show were co-produced by Essenger. The album also features a new collaboration with Nikki Flores, a cover of the 1978 Bruce Springsteen and Patti Smith hit single Because The Night.

Singles

Neon Medusa
March 3, 2021

Track listing

Horror Show

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Producer(s)	Length
1.	"The Stranger"	Tim McEwan Tyler Lyle	McEwan	1:42
2.	"Ghost in Your Stereo"	McEwan Lyle Micah Dalton Jeffrey Blake Simpson	McEwan Essenger	4:09
3.	"Neon Medusa"	McEwan Lyle	McEwan Essenger	5:05
4.	"Devil Make a Deal"	McEwan Lyle Luke Laird Natalie Hemby	McEwan Essenger	4:56
5.	"Good in Red"	McEwan Lyle Jesse Molloy Simpson	McEwan Essenger Molloy	4:26
6.	"Because The Night" (feat. Nikki Flores)	Bruce Springsteen Patti Smith	McEwan	3:36
Total length:				23:54

2021 Release bonus track

No.	Title	Length
7.	"Neon Medusa (Edit)"	4:13
Total length:		28:07

Credits
Additional instrumentation was provided by Jesse Molloy (saxophone on Because The Night), Maddie Rice (guitar solo on Neon Medusa), and Nikki Flores (background vocals on Good In Red and vocals on Because The Night).
Mixed By Tim McEwan. Mastered by Emily Laxar at The Lodge, NYC. Front cover by Max Löffler.

Release history and variants

Digital release history for Horror Show

Date	Edition
October 16, 2020	Standard
Initial release, which was only available for streaming/download via Amazon Music or by preordering a physical copy.
October 16, 2020	Instrumentals
Was available to download by preordering a physical copy of the EP. First The Midnight release to have vocal and instrumental versions available on release day.
March 19, 2021	Standard
General release to all platforms. Contains an edited version of Neon Medusa as the final track. Bandcamp release also includes the instrumentals.
May 14, 2021	Instrumentals
General release to all platforms.

Physical release history for Horror Show

Year	Format	Color/Design
2020	Cassette	Transparent Orange
This and the Translucent Grey variant were the first tape variants, both available to be preordered on October 16, 2020. Orders began shipping in January 2021. Contains the instrumentals on side B. First time an instrumental version of an EP/album received a physical release.
2020	Cassette	Translucent Grey
This and the Transparent Orange variant were the first tape variants, both available to be preordered on October 16, 2020. Orders began shipping in January 2021. Contains the instrumentals on side B. First time an instrumental version of an EP/album received a physical release.
2020	LP	Transparent Orange
This and the Smoke variant were the first vinyl variants, both available to be preordered on October 16, 2020. Both variants run at 45 RPM, the only The Midnight vinyl releases to do so. Orders began shipping in January 2021. "Kill Your Demons" is etched in the run-out area.
2020	LP	Smoke
This and the Transparent Orange variant were the first vinyl variants, both available to be preordered on October 16, 2020. Both variants run at 45 RPM, the only The Midnight vinyl releases to do so. Orders began shipping in January 2021. "Kill Your Demons" is etched in the run-out area. Some copies of this variant had a more pronounced darker color closer to black, which is reflected in an updated render.
2022	LP	Bloodshot Splatter
Third vinyl variant. Unlike the first two, this variant runs at 33 ⅓ RPM.

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