YMMV / M83

• Awesome Music: "Midnight City", "Wait", "Outro". Heck just about the entirety of Hurry Up, We're Dreaming is this.
• Broken Base: Before The Dawn Heals Us is either one of their best albums or one of their worst, depending on who you ask.
  • Hell, pretty much everything since, too. Even Saturdays = Youth isn't free from it.
  • Junk is even more so one, turning up the funk and dance-pop influences and generally seeming less serious than previous albums, which seems to set off many.
• Ending Fatigue: Saturdays = Youth ends with Midnight Souls Still Remains, which might be the most egregious example of this in indie rock history. It's a very simple chord progression played on a single 80s synth with no other elements or instruments. This would've been fine as a calming 2 minute coda to the brutal Dark Moves of Love, but the composition lasts a whopping 11 minutes with zero variation or progression.
• Heartwarming Moments: A few examples...
  • Doubling as a Tear Jerker, "Farewell/Goodbye", a duet. Especially the final verses...
  "Feeling frozen." / "I'll warm you every night."
  "Falling asleep." / "I'll travel in your dreams."
  • "I Guess I'm Floating"; an warm ambient piece coupled with the sounds of children playing in the background.
  • Much of Hurry Up, We're Dreaming counts as Sweet Dreams Fuel, but in particularly...
    • "Midnight City", an ode to the Los Angeles skyline, particularly in the second verse.
    • "Reunion" invokes this.
    • "Steve McQueen". Try listening to this song without feeling energized or like you’re soaring freely through the sky.
• Les Yay: The "Kim and Jessie" video has it in bunches, that is until the possibly subverted, cryptically hinted-at or it-meant-something-different-the-entire-time ending.
• Memetic Mutation: "Midnight City" has spawned many edits and remixes ever since its release, with a notable video being "Stepping on the M83", a mashup with "Stepping on the Beach" from Spongebob Squarepants.
• Nightmare Fuel:
  • "Car, Chase, Terror!" It's an entire track about a car chase between a creepy man and a mother with her daughter. It has somewhat of a Downer Ending.
    • And since there is only one vocalist performing on that track, you get the impression that both her daughter and the man are figments of her not-too-sane imagination.
  • "Don't Save Us From the Flames". The song is musically joyous and happy. The lyrics, on the other hand...
• Signature Song: "Midnight City" is their most known song to date. Chances are, even if you haven't heard of the band, you'll still recognize the song's distinct sound.
• Song Association: Earlier in his career, "This Bright Flash" was one of the outro themes for PewDiePie. Those who watched him early in 2013 will associate it with him.
• Sweet Dreams Fuel: Hurry Up, We're Dreaming was actually inspired by this trope. And it’s obvious once you hear songs like “Midnight City” and “Steve McQueen”.
  • "I Guess I'm Floating" from Before The Dawn Heals Us.
• Tear Jerker: Although each album's tone gets lighter, there are many examples...
  • "Gone", with a notable screaming as the full melody kicks in.
  • Much of Before The Dawn Heals Us:
    • "I'm In The Cold And Standing", and in a similar style, "Let Men Burn The Stars"
    • "Safe"
    • "Farewell/Goodbye". It's so simplistic yet incredibly saddening at the same time. Guaranteed to make you blubber like a baby if you're not prepared. May possible double as a Heartwarming Song.
    • The finale, "Lower Your Eyelids and Die With The Sun"
  • From Saturdays = Youth, "The Dark Moves of Love" is brutal: depending on your interpretation of the lyrics, it's either sung by someone trying to bring back an ex, or, more likely, someone trying to bring back a loved one who died.
  "I will fight the time and bring you back..."
  • From Disc 2 of Hurry Up, We're Dreaming, "My Tears Are Becoming A Sea".
    • "Wait". Full stop, with its' moving and powerful buildup. It's also been used several times on powerful tearjerker moments.
    • Of course, "Outro" also follows.
  • "For the Kids" from Junk is either this or extreme Narm, depending on the listener. It seems to be about a mother who has lost her young daughter. Then there's a spoken-word interlude that seems to be the daughter comforting her mother from beyond the grave.

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