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Brooklyn. Friday. Love.

Brooklyn. Friday. Love. single cover
"Brooklyn. Friday. Love."
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Single by The Midnight
from the album Heroes
ReleasedAugust 3, 2022 (2022-08-03)
Length3:52
LabelCounter Records
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Tim McEwan
Heroes track listing
The Midnight singles chronology
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Avalanche

(2022)
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Brooklyn. Friday. Love.

(2022)
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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.[1]

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.[2]

In an interview with Magnetic Magazine, Lyle elaborated on the song's meaning:[3]

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.


Fall 2023 North American Tour

The October 8 show in Philadelphia
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Tour by The Midnight
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Start dateSeptember 16, 2023 (2023-09-16)
End dateOctober 15, 2023 (2023-10-15)
No. of shows
  • 25 in North America
Supporting acts
  • Flamingosis
  • Replicant
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The Fall 2023 North American Tour was the sixth concert tour by The Midnight.[4] Announced in April 2023, the tour began on September 16, 2023, in Atlanta, Georgia, and concluded on October 21, 2023, in Monterrey, Mexico. All shows were in the United States except for the final two which were in Mexico.

The Fall 2023 North American Tour featured a diverse array of songs from across all of The Midnight's releases. The tour saw Tim McEwan return to the front of the stage playing synths and pads, having previously performed with a full drum kit since the Fall 2021 and Spring 2022 Tour. During the tour, the band played for the first time at the music festivals Music Midtown in Atlanta and Live Out in Monterrey. Additionally, they opened for ODESZA on their The Last Goodbye Tour on October 19, 2023, The Midnight's first time being a supporting act and their first performance in Mexico since 2019.

25 shows were performed over the span of six weeks, the longest individual run of shows for The Midnight since they began touring in 2018. The band's lineup, unchanged since the spring leg of the Fall 2021 and Spring 2022 Tour, consisted of Tim McEwan on percussion and synths, Tyler Lyle on guitar and vocals, Lelia Broussard on guitar and bass, Royce Whittaker on guitar, and Justin Klunk on saxophone.

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5th May, 2026
Music - Neon Odyssey, a song made for the Kickstarter launch of the Dungeons & Dragons expansion pack of the same, is released on YouTube with an animated music video. The song will be released to all platforms on May 8, 2026.
30th April, 2026
Music - A deluxe version of Syndicate has been announced and will release on May 15, 2026.
24th April, 2026
Music - The Chromeo Remix of Love is an Ocean is released.
16th April, 2026
Tour - The North American leg of the Time Machines tour begins in Miami.
10th March, 2026
Music - Driver405 is announced as the winner of the Runaways remix contest. Sereni7 and L'ectroLush were runners-up, with George Castro receiving an honorable mention.
12th February, 2026
Tour - A special performance and conversation at the GRAMMY Museum in Los Angeles has been announced. The event will take place on March 11, 2026.
18th January, 2026
Tour - The Asian/Australian leg of the Time Machines tour begins in Beijing.
16th January, 2026
Tour - Boo Seeka is announced as the opener for the Australian dates of the Time Machines tour.

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Did You Know?

  • ...that Tim McEwan is originally from Copenhagen, Denmark?
  • ...that Tyler Lyle once lived in Paris?
  • ...that the subject of Nighthawks is a former neighbor of Tyler Lyle?
  • ...that Tim McEwan once played drums in the Eurovison Song Contest?
  • ...that The Midnight Remixed was the band's first album to be associated with a label and appear on a Billboard chart?
  • ...that Lost & Found was originally released on the Tyler Lyle album The Native Genius of Desert Plants?
  • ...that Tim McEwan co-wrote and produced a song for New Kids On The Block?
  • ...that planning for The Midnight's graphic novel Shadows began in 2020, four years before its release?
  • ...that Tim McEwan's brother Oliver is also a musician, but their parents are actors?
  • ...that Golden Gate, Souvenir and Brooklyn were originally solo Tyler Lyle songs from his album The Floating Years?

  1. "the midnight on Twitter". Twitter. July 30, 2022. Archived from the original on August 2, 2022. Retrieved August 2, 2022.
  2. "the midnight on Twitter". Twitter. August 5, 2022. Archived from the original on August 5, 2022. Retrieved August 5, 2022.
  3. Vance, Will (August 4, 2022). "Lyrics To The Midnight's 'Brooklyn.Friday.Love.' And The Story That Put Words To Music - Magnetic Magazine". Magnetic Magazine. Archived from the original on August 5, 2022. Retrieved June 11, 2023.
  4. "The Midnight - Excited to announce our Fall 2023 North American... | Facebook". Facebook. April 11, 2023. Archived from the original on March 24, 2024. Retrieved May 19, 2023.