Youth[1] is a song by The Midnight. It is the first track from their album Kids.
Track info
The song was written by band members Tim McEwan and Tyler Lyle and produced by McEwan. It has a running time of three minutes and nine seconds and is in the key of D major.
Youth contains several samples of spoken word from a 1979 documentary by David Hoffman, called The Information Society as well as a 1990 news report on video games.[2][3][4]
Youth was used as the opening track for the fall 2018 and spring 2019 tour. It featured the late Carl Sagans Pale Blue Dot on top of the song.[5]
References
- ↑ "Youth | The Midnight". Bandcamp. September 21, 2018. Archived from the original on February 5, 2022. Retrieved April 7, 2022.
- ↑ "See Him Predict The Future In 1979. Was He Correct? - YouTube". YouTube. May 29, 2015. Archived from the original on February 27, 2022. Retrieved April 7, 2022.
- ↑ "1979 Film Predicts The Dawn Of The Computer Age - YouTube". YouTube. October 30, 2018. Archived from the original on October 10, 2021. Retrieved April 7, 2022.
- ↑ "Nintendo Wizards, Young Adults, & Yuppies - Local News Report - ( Circa 1990 ) - YouTube". August 9, 2009. Archived from the original on December 22, 2021. Retrieved April 7, 2022.
- ↑ Sagan, Carl (1994). Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (1st ed.). New York: Random House. ISBN 0-679-43841-6.