"After Midnight" is a song by American rock band Blink-182, released on September 6, 2011 as the second single from the group's sixth studio album, Neighborhoods (2011).

The song was written and produced very late in the recording process for Neighborhoods, following the cancellation of a European tour to complete the long-delayed album.

Although the album was recorded primarily in separate studios, "After Midnight" came together quickly in a last-minute writing session when the trio were together.

Guitarist Tom DeLonge and bassist Mark Hoppus were immediately inspired when Barker introduced the demo to them, and the song was nearly complete three hours later.

[1] "After Midnight" was one of four new songs birthed from a last-minute writing session after the band canceled their European tour in April 2011.

[7] Mark Hoppus made an announcement via Twitter and on Blink-182's Facebook that a new song of the album called "After Midnight" would debut on Radio 1 for England and on the official web page for the rest of the world.

The same day the band launched a minigame on a web page called get182.com, and consisted to get the number 182 to download the song.

"After Midnight" was played for the first time on the Honda Civic Tour along with "Ghost On The Dance Floor" before the release of the album.

[17] Consequence of Sound's web critic Chris Coplan said the song is "decidedly epic with an intimate touch, an effort that highlights each member’s strengths, Tom DeLonge’s romantic verses, Mark Hoppus’ grand chorus, and Travis Barker’s bangin’ drum skills, to make for one fairly anthemic effort".

[19] Scott Heisel from the US magazine Alternative Press wrote: "Is one of the finest moments of Blink's career, a song so simple, catchy and geniune that it's amazing it took them nearly two decades to write it".

The clip revolves around a male (Garret Camilleri) and female (Valorie Curry) in a youth psychiatric ward who find one another and escape for an evening of reckless romance.

[6] The performance clips were shot in the world's largest freestanding wooden structure, a hangar built in the 1940s to construct blimps.