Youth

2018 The Midnight song (Track one from Kids)
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"Youth"
Song by The Midnight
from the album Kids
Released
  • September 21, 2018 (2018-09-21)
Length3:09
Label
  • The Midnight Music
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Tim McEwan
Kids track listing

Youth[1] is a song by The Midnight. It is the first track from their album Kids.

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 tours, accompanied by Carl Sagan's Pale Blue Dot.

Official versions

Youth

from Kids

Youth (Instrumental)

from Kids (The Instrumentals)

References

  1. "Youth | The Midnight". Bandcamp. September 21, 2018. Archived from the original on February 5, 2022. Retrieved April 7, 2022.
  2. "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.
  3. "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.
  4. "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.