{"id":37151,"date":"2019-02-26T22:19:17","date_gmt":"2019-02-26T22:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=37151"},"modified":"2019-02-26T22:19:22","modified_gmt":"2019-02-26T22:19:22","slug":"music-m83-midnight-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/music-m83-midnight-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Music: M83: Midnight City"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Self-tutoring about music: the tutor mentions the song &#8220;Midnight City&#8221; by M83.<\/h2>\n\n\n<blockquote>Waiting in a car<br>\nWaiting for a ride in the dark&#8230;.\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\nSo begins &#8220;Midnight City&#8221; by M83, from 2011. I don&#8217;t recall if I knew it then, but a few weeks ago my grade 9 son sang those lines quietly, not expecting to be heard.\n<\/p><p>\n&#8220;Midnight City&#8221; you might call electronic, but its drums are important. It&#8217;s more like an instrumental piece, yet with lyrics. However you classify the song, it&#8217;s catchy: the M83 upload of &#8220;Midnight City&#8221; on YouTube has around 250 million views.\n<\/p><p>\nPerhaps there are numerous versions of &#8220;Midnight City&#8221;, but I only know of one, which is four minutes long. Three minutes in, a saxophone enters. From my point of view, it&#8217;s surprising. Furthermore, its style hearkens back to the 80s. It continues until the end.\n<\/p><p>\nWhile &#8220;Midnight City&#8221; might be electronic, it perhaps offers something to a much more diverse audience.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSource:\n<\/p><p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dX3k_QDnzHE\">M83: YouTube<\/a>\n<\/p><p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ilovem83.com\/music\/hurry-up-were-dreaming\/\">ilovem83.com<\/a>\n<\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring about music: the tutor mentions the song &#8220;Midnight City&#8221; by M83. Waiting in a car Waiting for a ride in the dark&#8230;. So begins &#8220;Midnight City&#8221; by M83, from 2011. I don&#8217;t recall if I knew it then, but &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/music-m83-midnight-city\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Music: M83: Midnight City<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[465],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37151"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37153,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37151\/revisions\/37153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}