History Music / TheMidnight

** Their old video for "Vampires" is just a bunch of clips from Anime/WickedCity played along with the music.

It's just that some dance partners need a dancer partner too\\

And if we live forever, let us live forever tonight\\

** Parts of the riff from "Heroes" sounds very similar to the repeated "I want my MTV" melody from the Music/DireStraits song "Money for Nothing". In the live recording for "Heroes", the guitar solo at the end even directly quotes the melody.

* BookEnds: The first track of ''Monsters'' after the intro is "America Online", which includes the lyrics, "Are we all one beating heart?" This question is answered with the last few sentences of the album's closing track "Last Train", which confirms that indeed, "We are one beating heart."

You won't run out, there is love enough\\

* UsefulNotes/{{Synthwave}}: They mainly belong to the "romancewave" subgenre.

Not to be confused with Music/{{Midnight}}, a metal band founded in 2003.

** "Days of Thunder" is likely a reference to [[Film/DaysOfThunder the 1989 film of the same name]]. And "Jason" is likely a shoutout to the VillainProtagonist of the ''Franchise/FridayThe13th'' franchise.

* AnimatedMusicVideo: Their [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGmHWca3xpI&ab_channel=TheMidnight video]] for a collaboration song they did with Escape Plan called "Nothing Beats Like a Heart" revolves around a small outdated robot desperately struggling to find a place to fit in after it becomes obsolete.

I prefer kick drums and red wine\\

'''[=EPs=]'''

-->Rush hour
-->On an uptown train
-->Doors open
-->As she walks in
-->She's soaking
-->Caught in the rain
-->Her skin shines
-->Crystalline

* EmptyShell: : "Synthetic" off of ''Endless Summer'' seems to be from the point of view of someone who was reduced to this state via extreme heartbreak.
-->I'm still alive but I can't feel
-->I got stuff inside but its not real
-->They say I'm fine but I feel synthetic
-->Nothing human left in me
-->I'm just a machine full of moving parts
-->I got emptiness where I used to have a heart
-->I'm still breathing but I'm synthetic
-->Nothing human left in me
-->Nothing human about me

-->Kids are sad, the sky is blue
-->There are monsters in the spare bedroom
-->Kids grow up, and move away
-->They closed the plant and the mall arcade
-->Kids are sad, their parents, too
-->Kids get high in the spare bedroom
-->We grow up and move away
-->The seasons pass, but the monsters stay

-->Take off your armor, friend of mine
-->I have no arrows but I got time
-->All your sorrow keeps you glued to your seat
-->Can we get you outta your head and into your feet?

-->And it's not that the rest of us don't have the blues
-->It's just that some dance partners need a dancer partner too
-->Is that you?

The Midnight is a UsefulNotes/{{Synthwave}} band formed in 2012 between singer-songwriter Tyler Lyle and producer, songwriter and singer Tim [=McEwan=]. The main themes of the band include a bittersweet nostalgia for days gone by and the melancholy of looking back into the past from the present. Unlike many other bands in the genre The Midnight features vocals on most of its songs with only a small handful of purely instrumental tracks to be found on each collection. To date they have released several popular studio albums along with a number of [=EPs=] and singles and have enjoyed a moderate amount success in the mainstream.

* SillyLoveSongs: About half of their songs could be classified as this, usually with a strong undercurrent of melancholy or sadness for a bittersweet effect. They do have a few more straight examples though, such as "Dance With Somebody" from the ''Monsters'' album.

* EmptyShell: : "Synthetic" off of ''Endless Summer'' seems to be from the point of view of someone who was reduced to this via extreme heartbreak.

-->Nothing human abut me

* KidsRock: Kids (Reprise) features actual kids from the West Los Angeles Children's Choir singing the chorus for added effect.

The Midnight is a UsefulNotes/{{Synthwave}} band formed in 2012 between singer-songwriter Tyler Lyle and producer, songwriter and singer Tim McEwan. The main themes of the band include a bittersweet nostalgia for days gone by and the melancholy of looking back into the past from the present. Unlike many other bands in the genre The Midnight features vocals on most of its songs with only a small handful of purely instrumental tracks to be found on each collection. To date they have released several popular studio albums along with a number of EPs and singles and have enjoyed a moderate amount success in the mainstream.

'''EPs'''

The Midnight is a {{Synthwave}} band formed in 2012 between singer-songwriter Tyler Lyle and producer, songwriter and singer Tim McEwan. The main themes of the band include a bittersweet nostalgia for days gone by and the melancholy of looking back into the past from the present. Unlike many other bands in the genre The Midnight features vocals on most of its songs with only a small handful of purely instrumental tracks to be found on each collection. To date they have released several popular studio albums along with a number of EPs and singles and have enjoyed a moderate amount success in the mainstream.

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