Songs That Defined the Decade: M83's 'Midnight City'

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.M83's MidnightCity doesn’t specifically fit in any other era. Limiting it solely to only one period of time disservices its greatest quality: durability. Below, read about how the song helped define the 2010s

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“It’s timeless,” says Morgan Kibby, who co-wrote the song and is a former M83 member. “That’s something you don’t aim to create. That’s something that naturally happens when you’re making music that’s really authentic to your ethos and who you are as an artist.”serves both as an ode to city living and as the mainstream radio breakthrough for the Anthony Gonzalez-helmed collective.

“Midnight City” didn’t sound a whole lot like what was being played on the airwaves at the time, either. It came at the tip of a sonically ambiguous period in alt music — as the pop-punk and emo rock waves that soared in the early ‘00s began to dwindle, the next big sound to usher in a new era of alt music remained a question mark.

M83 wasn’t the originator of such a movement — alt crossovers blending elements of pop and electronic existed well before “Midnight City” did, which Meldal-Johnsen readily admits. Even around the time when the single was released, bands like MGMT and the xx were dipping their toes in similar waters.

 

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M83 Never get enough of this tune. Discovered it from that Victoria Secret commercial lol

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