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Is The Midnight's "Monsters" the Future of Synthwave?

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  • čas přidán 14. 08. 2024
  • Synthwave is a fun retro genre, but the new album from The Midnight sounds surprisingly futuristic. How does it fit in with their back catalog, and synthwave as a whole?

Komentáře • 42

  • @antoniosaladin
    @antoniosaladin Před 3 lety +21

    Los Angeles was the first song I heard by them and it’s one of those songs that I’m mad I’ll never be able to hear for the first time again

  • @martyman0077
    @martyman0077 Před 3 lety +12

    Man, I can never explain to people how synthwave brings that lost time feeling to my soul and makes me long for times that will soon be only distant memories. Next time, I'm just gonna send em this video.

  • @LivyB13
    @LivyB13 Před 4 lety +27

    You did a fantastic job! This is absolutely true. The Midnight gives off a a nostalgic that I only somewhat lived through because we were raised on the oldies. Yet it's fresh and hinges right on my emotional and mental state from childhood to adulthood. It's brilliant and you nailed it.

  • @MichaelZescu
    @MichaelZescu Před rokem +2

    Great video. You deserve way more subscribers. Brooklyn is my favorite song of theirs as of now. It was nice to see you mention it!

  • @hypercloudnine
    @hypercloudnine Před 11 měsíci +1

    fr i'm obsessed with The Midnight.... I love your 10 minute video essay on one of my personal favorites too!!!! 🤩

  • @TKCEDM
    @TKCEDM Před 3 lety +5

    Man, this was really well put together. You deserve more subscribers than 29. Really enjoy The Midnight's stuff and I also really have enjoyed Midnight Kids lately as well.

  • @mindgamesnl
    @mindgamesnl Před 4 lety +5

    One of the youtubers who makes content worth millions of views, but that at 15 subscribers
    You deserve all the love, this really is great

  • @OfTheOverflow
    @OfTheOverflow Před 3 lety +2

    Great vid, you'll have to do a video on Horror Show as a spin-off mini EP.
    Oh, and Brooklyn was written by Tyler as a solo project but remixed into a Midnight song for Monsters.

  • @Nova7805
    @Nova7805 Před 3 lety +6

    How do you have so little subs... Your content deserves way more.

  • @Godless-Being
    @Godless-Being Před 5 měsíci

    Alongside Timecop 1983, both the midnight and 1983 are synthwave legends. I made the playlist of both of them of every song as of now, including their features with each other if hall remember River of darkness and whatever other songs I’m missing
    Edit: very first album that I listened to on Spotify was the midnight’s Endless summer album, that was the very first album I heard on Spotify before I knew they had other albums (like days of thunder and etc. ),same with timecop, first time cop album I heard on Spotify was journeys. Both midnight and 1983 are legends. If I had to put it into two words, synthwave legends
    And what I’m trying to do is get into more Synthwave artists just like the both of them, like Dana Jean Phoenix Kavinsky(if he’s considered as well) Jason dally(hopefully I said his name right) sunglasses kid and etc.
    I’m mostly a rock hip-hop, R&B, pop guy, but some wave is going to be mixed into that as well and I’m here to stay on that

  • @voidex1494
    @voidex1494 Před 3 lety +11

    I hope midnight makes it into stranger things season 4

  • @RetroGamingSweden
    @RetroGamingSweden Před rokem +1

    Proud Number 100 Sub!
    This is great!

  • @unsurprisinglysleepdeprived

    Dude, this was an amazing video! You really described how I and many others have felt about The Midnight. I'm really looking forward to more of your future videos!💖💖💖💖💖

  • @MontecristoOG
    @MontecristoOG Před 3 lety +1

    Bro, u make me think more that i had in my mind, becaause i only enjoyed the music of The midnight, but now i can see much more further away and appreciatte the drama in the lyrics.
    I do videos in spanish because its my native lenguaje but its great to see more thoughts like your, its really good find "more than just some thoughts"

  • @mamab4720
    @mamab4720 Před 2 lety +1

    I'm wearing my Kavinsky t-shirt right now as I find this video and my obsession with The Midnight brought me here. Great job on this video.

  • @lukkysparxx
    @lukkysparxx Před 3 lety +3

    Absolutely loved the video. Fastest sub in my whole life

  • @hampsonpaul3531
    @hampsonpaul3531 Před 8 měsíci

    As a Midnight fan I thoroughly enyoyed this Video .Perhaps you could bring it upto date as they have further evolved soinc e you made this in 2020

  • @Aight1Josh
    @Aight1Josh Před 3 lety +2

    Such a good video man, you got a great future in this stuff

  • @ashmidnightbeats2621
    @ashmidnightbeats2621 Před 3 lety +2

    I'll share this video with all my friends ❤️

  • @BryanKean
    @BryanKean Před 7 měsíci

    Well done!!!

  • @oguzt.7868
    @oguzt.7868 Před 2 lety

    I'm from Turkey and I just discovered The Midnigh right before the Coronavirus. Since then, I've been always listening them in my car, especially at nights and my favorite album is "Nocturnal". Since, it totally reflects all scenarious you can experience at nights. And sir, I totally agree with you about the concept of the short narration you prepare. Cheers :-)

    • @metalpunk1234
      @metalpunk1234 Před rokem

      You should also listen to droid bishop too, though, he's just a one man band and is also talented as the midnight too, in vocals and instrumental.

  • @olevet75
    @olevet75 Před 4 lety +2

    I thought it was set of dreams ;) I've been hooked on Midnight since I discovered them about half of year ago, them , fm84, gunship, kalax and com truise are my favs synthwave bands

  • @lesterrr12312
    @lesterrr12312 Před 3 lety +1

    great video, honestly! as for the direction, I thought I heard Tyler say there's gonna be "the kids trilogy", so the next LP might continue that "timeline") but for me personally, the introduction of r'n'b elements on The Monsters, and especially the way the pads sound like they're from 2000s and are full of filter sweeps, all of that makes it seem like they're done trying to emulate an era and are now just making it "modern".. o_O maybe it's just my interpretation of those presets, and there are still a lot of signature 80s brass pads and percussion, so it's definitely a transition.. songs like Dream Away and Helvetica are even New Age inspired and that works conceptually with the album's theme, but not musically, because it kinda skips the 90s instruments and tries to create them with 1980s+2000s, which is super confusing at the end, haha

    • @petersaysthings
      @petersaysthings Před 2 lety

      I agree, Monsters is a bit of a mixed bag and I expected it’d transition a bit more into the 90’s era rather than skipping it. I like Monsters but in sort of a different way. It’s not bad, but the jungle sound and odd changes on some songs threw me off. Maybe the vibe shifts were meant to be more reminiscent of adolescence, or like some interdimensional creature crawling through the TV, idk haha but the album felt a bit off and took some getting used to.

  • @neoknux009
    @neoknux009 Před 3 lety +1

    Thanks for the thoughts!

  • @brumeleable
    @brumeleable Před rokem

    I'd love to hear your thoughts on their new album

  • @deepblue8143
    @deepblue8143 Před rokem +1

    Good video but it existed for me. I lived through it, the eighties and nineties were the best!

  • @Moonless6491
    @Moonless6491 Před 3 lety +2

    The Midnight is the future of synythwave.

  • @ninepuchar1
    @ninepuchar1 Před 2 lety

    Nice bro👍👍

  • @BGID7
    @BGID7 Před 2 měsíci

    Why'd you quit making videos?

  • @darthbane4980
    @darthbane4980 Před 3 lety

    An amazing album

  • @NoName-lo9ym
    @NoName-lo9ym Před 3 lety +1

    The Midnight have always been one of my Synthwave artists but the latest releases are losing my interest. I would still definitely see them live again, they are fantastic

  • @undeny
    @undeny Před 3 lety +2

    It's not, the genre is more varied than people give credit for or realize let alone explore. They paid homage to yet another part of the old scene while bringing it to the new that's it. It's not the future or the past its the present.

  • @pmhsgamingnonsense2438
    @pmhsgamingnonsense2438 Před rokem +2

    Gunship remains king in my opinion.

  • @ohok6091
    @ohok6091 Před 3 lety

    Monsters was down grade from their previous albums except for Brooklyn and dance with some body

    • @Trogdor280
      @Trogdor280 Před 3 lety

      Seventeen is probably the best, only 2-3 weak song on Monsters

  • @Spacefiddler
    @Spacefiddler Před rokem +1

    these guys are just good sound designers and copy paste basically all stuff from 80s .. i dont see any special in this band to be honest