The night begins to shine song id11/20/2022 ![]() ![]() ![]() And there’s a reason for that: the song wasn’t a pop song from the 1980s - it wasn’t a pop song at all. Not on iTunes, not on Spotify, not even on YouTube - except for that 32 seconds of Cyborg’s lipsync and boogie, it was like the song didn’t exist. There was a problem, though: the song couldn’t be found anywhere. But before you click, be warned: it’s a catchy tune.Īnd fans wanted more of the song. The whole clip - you can watch it here - is only about 32 seconds, and has almost nothing to do with the rest of the episode. At the beginning of that episode, he is having trouble falling asleep, so he turns on some tunes, and on comes the 1980s hit “The Night Begins to Shine.” He really gets into it - he rocks out, lipsyncing along with a few verses, says “that’s good!,” then turns off the lights to go to sleep. The producers came up with an idea: Cyborg, the Teen Titan who is, you guessed it, a cyborg, dances to his favorite song just before bedtime. The Augepisode titled “Slumber Party” was about 10 seconds short of the time required, necessitating an extra scene. Midway through the show’s second season, that proved to be a problem. And like most TV shows, it has to fill a certain amount of time. ![]() Like many cartoons, “Teen Titans Go!” has a pretty tight budget. It mixes physical humor and absurdism with subtle social commentary and nostalgia, so it’s a pretty good show for both the 40-something and the tween in the same household, an endorsement made from experience.Īnd it also accidentally created a very popular song from a band that never existed. The show is a tongue-in-cheek look at the lives of some B-list superheroes led by Robin (of Batman and Robin fame) during their angsty and sophomoric teenage years. There are now countless fan-made music videos using the footage from “40%, 40%, 20%, and I was actually listening to one of those in the background while writing the intro of my Hunger Games article this morning.The TV show “Teen Titans Go!,” is perhaps Cartoon Network’s most successful program to date, and for good reason - it’s funny. It’s now credited to the band B.E.R., and it’s their only song on iTunes. 30th, you couldn’t really buy it anywhere. In fact, it’s only given to us in pieces in “40%, 40%, 20%.” Before iTunes put it up on Oct. Yeah, funny thing about that: “Night Begins to Shine” seems to have been written specifically for Teen Titans Go! It’s not some obscure, old song. I couldn’t wait to track them down on Spotify and take a deep dive into their catalog. The first time I saw the episode, which is actually the second appearance of “Night Begins to Shine” on the show since it was used far more sparingly in “Slumber Party,” I looked forward to finding out which 80s group wrote the song. Of course, we get to see exactly what he sees, and across the episode’s 11-minute running time “Night Begins to Shine” plays practically non-stop. When listening to it, his imagination runs wild and he views the world very differently, picturing himself riding a winged horse and wearing a wolf-skin coat while saving his fellow Titans from one of their enemies. However, they soon learn that his “real strength comes not from his robot parts, but from” the inspiration he gets from that damn song. In the episode, Cyborg’s obsession with his favorite song, an obscure 80s hit with lyrics like “When I look at you I see the story in your eyes, when we’re dancing the night begins to shine,” annoys his fellow Titans (Robin, Starfire, Beast Boy and Raven). It’s been this way for a month now, pretty much ever since the Teen Titans Go! episode “40%, 40%, 20%” premiered on October 21st. It seems like the song is playing on a loop in my head, and I merely manage to occasionally hit the pause button and push it away for a couple of days. This is not the first time this has happened. It just popped into my head, and I couldn’t get it out. I woke up this morning feeling like I absolutely needed to hear the song “Night Begins to Shine” (aka, the song Cyborg from Teen Titans Go! is obsessed with). ![]()
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