Brooklyn indie rockers The Morning Herald offer an anthem to youth, friendship, and time well spent on “Twenty Somethings,” a spirited embrace of the good times… and a can of beer.
“Twenty Somethings” – The Morning Herald
We all “grow up” eventually; it’s the natural order of things that everyone gets older, and with that one truth comes a slew of inevitabilities – changes we can’t stop. Friends move away, folks gain new responsibilities, and you start seeing each other less and less. The nights of legend become memories of yore faster than you think they will – and so it’s incumbent upon us to live it up while we still can, because the clock is forever ticking. Brooklyn indie rockers The Morning Herald offer an anthem to youth, friendship, and time well spent on “Twenty Somethings,” a spirited embrace of the good times.
Every time I get out
You pull me back in I’m
Back to running con jobs
Pissing at our old stomps
F* if I’d known better
I would’ve stayed back at the shelter tonight
But something’s coming under
The party needs a number
The warning signs are waning
There’s no more time for wasting
When the backing band is so tight
And they’re calling that it’s showtime
When the boys are back at midnight
The rumbles out on the town, and it’s alright
Even though we’re older, it’s alright
Even though we’re tired, it’s alright
Just wait until you look back on this time
As long as the sun comes up bright, we’re alright
Atwood Magazine is proud to be premiering the Thomas Ford Flynn-directed music video for “Twenty Somethings,” taken off The Morning Herald’s 2023 sophomore album, Goldstar. Described by the band as a “breakup album in its truest sense, made full with cutting weirdo pop and danceable indie grooves,” Goldstar is as fun as it is feverish: A dynamic, dramatic, sonically diverse, and strikingly cohesive helping of indie sleaze that captures the highs and lows of young adulthood in the city.
“Twenty Somethings” is, unequivocally, one of those highs – a song aimed to enshrine a lifestyle that never really lasts, but feels limitless in the moment.
Jools is on the dance floor
Taras tossing eyes out at the bartender
He’s buzzing
Kevin’s talking up the bar flies
And it hasn’t been less different
Everything’s about the same as I remember then
With every night, I feel this light
Will linger in my head
The days you don’t forget
The mates that won’t leave you till your dead
And if tomorrow comes before we’re done
We’ll make it up at night
The rumble’s out on the town, and it’s alright
“‘Twenty Somethings’ was written in the summer of 2022 when I first moved to the city. At the time, I honestly was fed up with writing songs about romantic partners and wanted to write a love song to my friends,” The Morning Herald’s lead singer and songwriter Zach Leone – who plays together with Andy McKiernan, Dan Grbic, Gus Hatch, Mario Borges, and Zack Staples – tells Atwood Magazine. “I was listening to a lot of Sam Fender and Springsteen and was really impressed with the way they’re able to write about just going out and getting drunk and having it still feel cinematic and poetic.”
“In that style, I tried to write what it feels like when you get pulled out on a night out on the town where you don’t know where you may end up (or who you may end up with), but you’ve got your friends to guide you along the way. Compared to the first Morning Herald studio album, I wanted this one to feel more personal and intimate, so I even shouted out three of them in the second verse.”
The band hit their highest high in the chorus, basking in the revelry of those good times we wouldn’t trade for anything:
Even though we’re older, it’s alright
Even though we’re tired, it’s alright
Just wait until you look back on this time
As long as the sun comes up bright, we’re alright
Shot from the perspective of a can of beer, the “Twenty Somethings” is at once innovating, immersive, and captivating.
“For the video, we worked with a great filmmaker, Thomas Ford Flynn, to put a visual behind those days-that-turn-to-nights,” Leone says. “It was shot with an incredible camera rig, features friends and family of the band throughout, and highlights a montage of debauchery.”
“It’s a celebration of cheap beer, nights out on the town, New York’s Lower East Side, and telling your friends you love them. The song and video already drip with nostalgia, so I can only imagine how it’s going to devastate me watching it back decades from now, but I’m looking forward to it.”
Simply put, it’s a good time. But of course, it’s never that simple – and the only way to feel the full euphoria of this song and its visual is to press play and follow along as The Morning Herald have the time of their lives.
Watch the video exclusively on Atwood Magazine, and be sure to check out the band’s sophomore album Goldstar in full wherever you get your music!
Donnybrook to Rockarolla
To the days when we weren’t sober
To the singing in the backseat
Losing phones in blackout taxis
To the moments when we fell out
Then stumbled back together somehow
To the twenty something highlights
Gearing up for our own lives
And it’s alright
Even though we’re older, it’s alright
Even though we’re tired, it’s alright
Just wait until you look back on this time
As long as the sun comes up bright, we’re alright
Even though we’re older, it’s alright
Even though we’re tired, it’s alright
Just wait until you look back on this time
As long as the sun comes up bright, we’re alright
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