Matty - He just loves his fans.

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// Music is for people who can't handle their own thoughts //

Most of the artists out there doesn't really care about the intimate moment shared between them and their fans during concerts. This is one of the most raw moments I have ever witnessed from an artist's where he just want to see his fans eyes not their cell phones. Of course they were allowed to record a few videos here and there but he just want them to have a few moments where they came there to see him and the whole band. Face to face. Not from the screen itself.

They bought the tickets, so they have to enjoy every tiny bit of it. Just like the old days where cell phones were not lit up in the air but candles of posters instead. It really touched me how this person knows how to make the fans feel so special. It brings us back to reality. Memories that we captured with our eyes and minds are much more valuable than the ones we captured by our phones and so on.

- SA

SONG MEANINGS - VVV IMPORTANT.

THE 1975 SONG LYRICS & MEANINGS FINALLY EXPLAINED BY MATTY

sex: i luv a girl, she has a boyfriend but she’s a cheater so she always has sex with me. she also gives me blowjobs. i’m sad. imma fuck all her friends lol

chocolate: we luv to smoke weed. weed weed weED!!!!! WE LOVE WEED. weed!!! everything smells weed. my hair smells weed. my car smells weed. fuk the cops are coming we needa go!!!! who tf is rebecca

antichrist: i hate religions, hell yea satan!!!! go richard dawkins!!! 

woman: i fell in love with a prostitute when i was like 12 hehe

she way out: she can’t dance, she has two phones why does she have two phones put your fuckin phones away i wanna see your eyes

you: my girlfriend kissed all my friends so i fucked everybody here. not my fault m8

head cars bending: more blowjobs. this time in a car. drinking falling spewing.

menswear: trying to get some drugs for the wedding. i only brought 3 and everybody’s talking to me about it. bet you all googled “yosh in your mouth”

girls: trying to rationalize falling in love with a fit 17 and a half year old girl when i was 23 and feeling weird about it because she was closer to my little brother’s age than mine. chestle to the ground.

robbers: i’m obsessed with true romance, just wrote this song so i could shoot the video where i get drunk and use a gun and make out with a model the whole time

settle down: more soft sounds, more hooking up with girls in my childhood bedroom, let’s be honest the only thing that matters about this song is the “oohh” after “you’re cold and i burn” when i sing it live

money: more drugs, feed the nose means cocaine, he likes to get blown = more blowjobs and/or cocaine, depends on the day, basically i don’t like golddiggers, bloody nose and powders = more coke references, when you lark about = dog barks

so far: more coke, but this time at pete’s house. more weed references, sex and killing yourself. girl with silver spoon and zoot in her mouth is same girlfriend with enormous house in fallingforyou (her daddy rich). gave adam a shoutout. hann, please.

the city: best advice i ever got for a bad trip: get in the shower if it all goes wrong (more drugs i love drugs). literally no idea what the second verse about counting cards means, i was drunk lolz. mostly just wanted an excuse to project a cityscape onto my shirtless body and a model’s for the video. 

talk: lungs in tar = i love ciggies, kitchen full of pop stars = my mum is famous. who the fuck knows what polemic means? i love big words lol i left school at 16 didnt even pick up my GCSE results, went to leeds festival and got wrecked instead. doesn’t matter anyway because we can’t play this live anymore because george has tendinitis in his arm and it hurts him i never want you to hurt george are you ok george i love you george. 

heart out: more drug references, fucked the whole town again whoops. doesn’t my little bruva look like me in the video? we painted my chest tattoo on him hey give me back my floral robbers shirt louis. russian in a small town.

A story from the song, 'Is There Somebody Who Can Watch You' :

     There was a phone call interview done by a blog owner of the AMBY blog when The 1975 were in Tokyo. They have been keeping up with the band's update since their first album release until now.
     One of the question was, "Some of the songs have some unbelievable lyrics! So I just wanted to ask you, which The 1975 lyric is your favourite?" And Matty answered, "Oh that’s hard. I’d really hate to say. I mean, it spans so much because it really is an extension of my identity. I suppose there’s certain songs that connect with me more than others. On the album, for example, the last song Is There Somebody Who Can Watch You, that’s probably one of the more saddening songs for me that I’ve ever written because it’s about me leaving my family essentially—me leaving home—and making sure that there was somebody there to watch my little brother. It’s songs like that, and songs like Me that put things into perspective. I suppose every other day I’d probably have a different lyric depending on what mood I’m in. And you can probably see that by our music because it goes from really upbeat guitar-pop to somber and almost R&B. Do you know what I mean?"




- SA

Meanings behind the 'Chocolate' song :

*since the original video is forbidden from being downloaded, so here is one of their concert's video*

     Peaking at #19 on the UK Singles Chart and becoming certified Gold in the United States, “Chocolate” is arguably The 1975's most well-known song. The song’s popularity gave the band their first radio play. “Chocolate” was released as a single from their self-titled debut album, but it was originally recorded and released on their Music For Cars EP.

The song takes listeners into the boys' rebellious lives, with chocolate being utilized as a euphemism for marijuana. Front man Matty Healy spoke with Songs For Whoever on the story behind the song:

"Chocolate tells the story of our relationships with the governing authorities of our small town. Smoking weed, smoking anything I suppose, boredom and what ensues when both parties challenge one another. It’s a love letter to boredom, limited opportunities of expressing yourself and embracing and understanding the makeup of where you’re from. Musically and structurally it is the blueprint of our output, but I’d need an entire book to discuss that in detail."

- SA

The stories that lies beneath the Robbers song :

They developed an artful sophistication and electronic adventurism to their punk rumbles, it was an itriguing track called 'Robbers' that earned them a manager in 2009. Based around a violent, cinematic tale of lust on the Iam. "I got really obsessed with the idea behind Patricia Arquette's character in True Romance when I was about eighteen." Matty recalls "That craving for the bad boy in that film is so sexualized, and the gore with the sexual lust really merges together. It was something I was obsessed with."

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Much more detailed explanation :

     This is a love song about a toxic relationship. They are too focused on each other to notice the destruction they cause each other.

The title “Robbers” refers to how the lovers are robbing each other of happiness and chances in this world apart from one another. They can’t move on and grow in love because they are so caught up in their toxic relationship.

The 1975 frontman, Matty Healy said the following about the song:

“ ‘Robbers’ was originally inspired by my love of the Quentin Tarantino film True Romance, the story of an Elvis-obsessed loner who falls in love and marries a prostitute. In the movie the couple run away to California after killing her pimp and stealing his drugs to start a new life financed by a once in a lifetime drug deal. It’s the sentiment behind the film that appeals to me, the hopelessly romantic notion that two people can meet and instantly fall in love, an escape story where love is the highest law and conquers all against the odds. Characters like Bonnie and Clyde always appealed to me as a teenager – couples so intoxicated with one another that they fear nothing in the pursuit of the realization of each other, actions fueled by blind unconditional love. ‘Robbers’ is an ode to those relationships. The type of relationship all humans long for. All or nothing. This video is about when love makes two people feel they are the center of the universe.”

What The 1975 is all about

     The band itself is mostly inspired by the 80's music as it has been said by the band members itself than during that era, most of the good songs were being produced. The 1975 doesn't really care about being popular and such. All they care about is so that their music can be connected to the listeners out there. As it was said by one of the band members, Matt Healy "We're not making a record to support a couple of singles," Matty says of the finished record. "On your debut album, whether you're hyped or not, you've got shitloads to prove to yourself." And his hopes for The 1975 is that, "People need to get on board with what we're doing and see that we're for this generation. I want our music to be a part of people's lives, properly."

How did the band get their name, "The 1975" ?

It all started when Matty, the lead singer of the band found out at the back of a beat-era book given to him by a "gregarious artist" the date 1st June The 1975. He met him at a yard sale in northern Majorca at the age of 19. Matty said, "He showed me a round his house, it was like a sixties bizarre haberdashery. He had photos of him with Hendrix, I thought thus guy was fucking crazy! He gave me loads of beat generation literature, Kerouac and stuff. When I went home I read them and in the back of one of them there was all these mental scribbling, it was almost suicidal, and it was dated at the bottom '1st June, The 1975'. I was quite freaked out when I read it, the use of the word 'The' really stuck with me. It was the perfect band name."

- SA

Introducing Band Members : Ross MacDonald

The Bassist

     Ross Stewart MacDonaldis the Bassist for the British pop band The 1975. He was born on the 6th of June, 1989. His horoscope sign is Gemini.Born in Wilmslow, Cheshire, England. He joined The 1975 band when he was in high-school. He likes to keep his beard thick and dark like always. One of the other band members, Adam Hann also sometimes keeps his beard and making it look like these two duos are inseparable when it comes to keeping up with their beards. Only Ross and Matty are at the same age while the oldest in the group is Adam. The youngest one on the other hand, is George who was born in the year 1990. 

- SA

Introducing Band Members : Adam Hann

The Guitarist

     Adam Brian Thomas Hann is the guitarist in the British pop band The 1975. He was born on the 20th of June, 1988 in Manchester, England. His horoscope sign is Gemini. He is the oldest member compared to everyone in the band. Probably one of the most quiet and shy ones compared to others. He was the one who invited Matt Healy to join the band when they were in high-school. It all started when he said that there is this thing that goes on at the Macclesfield Senior Citizen Hall where they let kids in to do a gig. He asked Matt Healy to become the drummer but it doesn't really suit Matty. In the end, Matty becomes the lead singer and George became the drummer.



- SA

Introducing Band Members : George Daniel

The Drummer

     George Bedford Daniel is the drummer for the British pop band The 1975. He was born on the 26th of March 1990 in Brussels, Belgium. His horoscope sign is Aries and currently at the age of 25. He met fellow band members Ross MacDonald, Adam Hann and Matthew Healy in high school. They began to play music together in 2004, beginnning with punk-rock and pop covers before beginning to write their own music.

     He was described by Matt Healy as someone who is ,"This weird kid who turned up at school, really tall but looking about nine and was this odd character." The pair bonded over their dislocated childhoods - Matt moved between London and newscastle while George was born in Belgium and grew up in Seattle - and the sense of isolation they felt in their homes in the Manchester suburbs.

- SA

The Lead Singer Part II

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     In the year 2001, Matt Healy met his to-be bandmates, the guitarist and keyboardist Adam Hann, drummer and backing vocalist George Daniel, and bassist and backing vocalist, Ross MacDonald at the Wilmslow High School in Wilmslow, a town close to Manchester. He then stated that a "hippy council worker" was putting on gigs for teenagers at Macclesfield Senior Citizen Hall and then Hann approached him and MacDonald about forming a band. Healy originally played drums, but then  switched in becoming the next lead singer just when George Daniel was added and as the lead singer left to join another band.

Before puberty hits Matt Healy.

Introducing Band Members : Matt Healy

The Lead Singer

     Matthew Timothy Healy is the singer for the British pop band The 1975. He was born on 8th April 1989 in London. He is the son of actors Denise Welch and Tim Healy. He was raised in Newscastle in Tyne and Wear before his parents moved to a small village outside of Macclesfield when he was 10 years old. He knows how to play the guitar and piano. Moreover, his vocals are also good.  Matthew left school at 16 and worked in call centres and cafés and as he has cited on his Instagram account, "Delivering Chinese food". Meanwhile, his first job was "in a kitchen doing pots at a pub".

- SA

The Pink Revolution

     Their self-titled debut was recorded with a produce named Mike Crossey (Arctic Monkeys, Foals) It was released in the year 2013. A number one album in the U.K., The 1975 also earned the band attention in the States, where it reached number 28 on the Billboard 200. In the year 2016, The 1975 returned with their sophomore full-length album, I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware of It. Featuring the singles "Love Me" and "The Sound," it found the band moving toward a more '80s adult contemporary pop and R&B-influenced sound. - Scott Kerr, Rovi.

- SA

     In 2012, they released their first EP, Facedown, on U.K. indie label Dirty Hit, and soon after supported Little Comets on their nationwide tour. The lead track from the debut EP, "The City," was played on Huw Stephens' BBC Radio 1 show, and the quartet's energetic live performances endeared them to crowds, while their music began to sweep across music blogs. Toward the end of 2012 they released a second EP, entitled Sex, and the title track was played by influential BBC Radio 1 DJ Zane Lowe. The following year, a third EP appeared, titled Music for Cars, spawning the U.K. Top 20 single "Chocolate." Their popularity continued to rise and they went on to play shows across the U.K., and were also invited to play at industry showcase SXSW in conjunction with a U.S. tour. 

- SA

       The 1975 is the self-titled debut studio album by English pop rock band called The 1975. It was released in 2 September 2013 through Dirty Hit and Polydor. It was recorded with Artic Monkeys collaborator Mike Crossey. On 8 September 2013, the album debuted at number 1 on the UK Albums Chart. As of March 2016, it has sold 410, 981 copies. 

         Hailing from Manchester, U.K., the 1975 managed to combine the dark and youthful themes of sex, love, and fear with ethereal alt-rock music. The four of them met at school in the year 2002, although the lead singer and guitarist Matt Healy was born in London and the drummer, George Daniel was born across the North Sea in Brussels. The rest of the lineup comprised Adam Hann on guitar and bassist Ross MacDonald. The first incarnation of the band began by covering punk songs at gigs arranged for underage youths which would quickly spread into chaos. Influenced by a variety of styles, from Michael Jackson, Motown, and the Rolling Stones to the soundscapes of Brian Eno, Boards of Canada, and Sigur Rós, they soon began to apply their pop-influenced hooks and guitar melodies to the lush ambient backdrops they created on their own.

                                                                                                                   

-SA

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