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.”
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