The Night We Met

For other uses, see The Night We Met (disambiguation).

"The Night We Met"
Single by Lord Huron
from the album Strange Trails
ReleasedApril 24, 2017 (2017-04-24)
GenreFolk rock[1]
Length3:28
LabelIamsound
Songwriter(s)Ben Schneider
Producer(s)Ben Schneider
Lord Huron singles chronology
"Fool for Love"
(2015) 		"The Night We Met"
(2017) 		"Ancient Names (Part I)"
(2018)
Lyric video
"The Night We Met" on YouTube

"The Night We Met" is a song recorded by American band Lord Huron for their second studio album, Strange Trails (2015). Following its inclusion in the Netflix series 13 Reasons Why, "The Night We Met" entered the record charts in several countries, including in Australia, Canada, France, the United Kingdom, and the United States. It was certified triple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America for combined sales and streaming figures exceeding three million units. The song, as of November 9, 2024, has amassed over 2.5 billion streams on Spotify.[2]

Background

"The Night We Met" was written and produced by frontman Ben Schneider, and mixed by Rick Parker.[3] "The Night We Met" was recorded at Russian Recording, USA, and Whispering Pines.[3]

Lyrics

"You never fully move on from someone you've shared something so powerful with, for better or for worse, they haunt you for the rest of your life. That's an impossible ghost to get rid of, there's no spell, no incantation for that."

—Ben Schneider[4]

In writing "The Night We Met", Schneider was inspired by "bittersweet teen romance" and pop songs from the 1950s, the latter of which he appreciated for the ways the melodies and lyrics often contrasted each other. He wanted the song to be about love, but with a focus on the feeling of regret at the end of a relationship. He described this relationship as one "where you've gone through so many wonderful things together but you feel like it wasn't worth it. You wish you could go back to the origin of the relationship, and instead of commencing it, go another way." Schneider was also inspired by horror fiction and how it evokes fear, an emotion which he connected to "the feelings of loss that go along with love". The song uses ghosts as metaphor for the way the memory of a person "can hang around and haunt you".[4]

Schneider has described the duet version with Phoebe Bridgers as revealing both sides of the relationship. Comparing it to Wuthering Heights, he further described it as representing a relationship "where there's regret and remorse on both sides and both people are left with this feeling of being haunted".[4]

Release

Ben Schneider of Lord Huron

The song was first released as a free download at strangetrails.com on January 27, 2015.[5][6] On February 9, 2015, the album Strange Trails was announced alongside the official release of two singles: "Fool for Love" and "The Night We Met".[7]

The song quickly achieved popularity after being featured in 13 Reasons Why, and it was subsequently certified platinum in the United States.[8] The song has been streamed over two billion times.[9] "The Night We Met" immediately turned into the band's most well known song.[10] It appears in an episode 5 scene of 13 Reasons Why, where the main characters, Clay Jensen and Hannah Baker, dance together.[11] After being featured in the show, the song garnered a band deal with Republic Records.[12]

On May 18, 2018, as part of the soundtrack for the second season of 13 Reasons Why, Lord Huron released a new rendition of the song featuring Phoebe Bridgers.[13] In August 2019, Lord Huron was joined by Phoebe Bridgers for a performance of the song at the Hollywood Bowl.[14]

"The Night We Met" reached number 5 on US Hot Rock Songs (Billboard), and number 7 on US Adult Alternative Songs (Billboard) charts.

The song was certified two-times platinum with 2 million units sold, and it was certified gold in France (with 100,000 units sold) and United Kingdom (with 400,000 units sold).

Critical reception

Marissa Matozzo of Paste labelled the song as "one of the band's most renowned tracks".[15] Erin Vierra of Mxdwn wrote, "'The Night We Met' is the kind of song one likes to hold on to late at night, the kind of song that fills the listener with a peaceful meditation".[16] The Musical Hype wrote, "This is a sensational song aside from the buzz its received in the mainstream. The lyrics are poetic, while the sound and vibe of the record are mysterious".[17] Under the Radar described the song as "heartbreaking waltz".[18]

Julien A. Luebbers of The Spokesman-Review wrote that the song "puts its finger keenly on deep human longing and romance gone sour. The song's power comes both from its sheer ubiquity and its pared-down and harmonic composition".[19]

Charts

Certifications

Certifications for "The Night We Met"
Region Certification Certified units/sales
Belgium (BEA)[57] Gold 20,000‡
Brazil (Pro-Música Brasil)[58] Gold 30,000‡
Denmark (IFPI Danmark)[59] 2× Platinum 180,000‡
France (SNEP)[60] Gold 100,000‡
Germany (BVMI)[61] Platinum 400,000‡
Italy (FIMI)[62] 2× Platinum 200,000‡
New Zealand (RMNZ)[63] 6× Platinum 180,000‡
Portugal (AFP)[64] 4× Platinum 40,000‡
Spain (PROMUSICAE)[65] 2× Platinum 120,000‡
United Kingdom (BPI)[66] 3× Platinum 1,800,000‡
United States (RIAA)[67] 3× Platinum 3,000,000‡
Streaming
Greece (IFPI Greece)[68] 3× Platinum 6,000,000†

‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.
† Streaming-only figures based on certification alone.

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