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Brooklyn. Friday. Love.
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| Single by The Midnight | ||||
| from the album Heroes | ||||
| Released | August 3, 2022 | |||
| Length | 3:52 | |||
| Label | Counter Records | |||
| Songwriter(s) | ||||
| Producer(s) | Tim McEwan | |||
| Heroes track listing | ||||
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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.
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- 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 co-wrote and produced a song for New Kids On The Block?
- ...that Tim McEwan once played drums in the Eurovison Song Contest?
- ...that an early version of Jason used the backing track from what would become The Equaliser (Not Alone)?
- ...that Lost & Found was originally released on the Tyler Lyle album The Native Genius of Desert Plants?
- ...that the voice in the intro of River of Darkness is from a guy named Eric?
- ...that Golden Gate, Souvenir and Brooklyn were originally solo Tyler Lyle songs from his album The Floating Years?
- ...that The Midnight played 77 shows in 2019, which is the most in one year since they began touring?
- ...that Dance With Somebody was once in a different key and had a guitar solo instead of a sax solo?
- ...that Tim McEwan's brother Oliver is also a musician, but their parents are actors?
- ...that The Midnight's first live concert was at the DNA Lounge in San Francisco in July 2017?
- ↑ "ｔｈｅ ｍｉｄｎｉｇｈｔ on Twitter". Twitter. July 30, 2022. Archived from the original on August 2, 2022. Retrieved August 2, 2022.
- ↑ "ｔｈｅ ｍｉｄｎｉｇｈｔ on Twitter". Twitter. August 5, 2022. Archived from the original on August 5, 2022. Retrieved August 5, 2022.
- ↑ 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.