The 2011 film Drive (in Hungarian, Drive – Gázt!, but I don't want to describe it more than once) is one of Ryan Gosling's most famous films and the starting point of the trend in which a group of 4chaners, and then a group of young people in general, decide to make the protagonist a loner and a loner. Literally it is. However, the film can be remembered not only for this reason, but also for its music, which contributed greatly to the rise of the synthwave wave of the early 2000s, and from which it stands out toweringly.
French singer Kavinsky's song Nightcall, which saw a record number of people search on Shazam over the weekend after he played it at the closing ceremony of the Paris Olympics.
Shazam announced this on Tuesday evening. On X (Formerly Twitter), as they wrote, there have never been so many people interested in a number in one day. The internet is still awash with Nightcall, so a lot of people were probably able to post it because it was familiar to them, but they didn’t know the name, not because the retro wave fever died down and no one remembers Drive anymore. France is a real wave powerhouse anyway, plus Kavinsky, Perturbator, Dan Terminus, and Carpenter Brut are French too, to name a few big names.
And then the bottom line, as Nightcall said at the closing ceremony:
