Midnight Memories (song)
One Direction's third single from their album of the same name.
Midnight Memories is a song by the English-Irish boy band One Direction, released on 20 November 2013 as a promotional track from their third studio album of the same name. It debuted at number three on the Irish Singles Chart and later peaked in the top ten in nine other countries. The song was co-written by Julian Bunetta, Jamie Scott, John Ryan, and band members Liam Payne and Louis Tomlinson.
Quick Facts
- Artist
- One Direction
- Album
- Midnight Memories
- Released
- 9 March 2014
- Recorded
- 2013
- Genre
- Pop rock
- Label
- Syco, Columbia
- Writer
- Julian Bunetta
- Jamie Scott
- John Ryan
- Louis Tomlinson
- Liam Payne
- Producer
- Jamie Scott
- Julian Bunetta
- John Ryan
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Did You Know?
- The song was performed during the Midnight Memories release party in Los Angeles on 22 November 2013.
- One Direction performed it on the final of The X Factor on 15 December 2013.
- The song was also performed on their Where We Are Tour (2014) and On the Road Again Tour (2015).
Background and release
The song was written by John Ryan, Jamie Scott, Liam Payne, Louis Tomlinson, and Julian Bunetta, who also produced it. It is the second single from the album to be written by band members, following "Story of My Life." Bunetta told MTV News that the title reflects the late-night hours when most of the album's memories were made, between midnight and five in the morning. On 24 January 2014, Payne announced via a YouTube video that "Midnight Memories" would be the third single from the album outside the US.
Music video
The official music video was filmed in London in December 2013 and premiered on Vevo at midnight on 31 January 2014. It shows the band leaving a house party, taking over a take-away, riding motorized scooters with five elderly women, stealing a police boat on the River Thames, and ending on Tower Bridge. The video has accumulated over 200 million views.
Controversy
In December 2013, Def Leppard asked their lawyers to examine whether "Midnight Memories" resembled "Pour Some Sugar on Me." Guitarists Phil Collen and Vivian Campbell told Billboard they were not pursuing legal action. Collen described the songs as "very similar in structure," while Campbell noted the chords are a basic one–four–five blues progression and attributed the similarity to production, sound, vocals, and reverb.
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