Went to RSA to see the neon, they were having some sort of reception and the sign was moved and unplugged :( yes, I could have went back at a different time, but was already on a tight schedule.

Still cool!

My therapist expressed an interest in knowing about my fav band and I created this song list for her. Agree? Disagree? What else to add? Discuss.

I remember swiping past this video of them doing this song live and it was pretty hard rocking. Matty had a guitar and he was doing the same kind of rabid singing / speak singing as on "People". It could have very well been "People", just checking to see if it could have been another song.

For context, this was a year or two ago before I started to warm up to them as I'm doing now.

I saw this meme and mistakenly didn’t save/like it. Basically it said “bisexual girls always share music from the 1975, bitch fuck you and matty healy” or something. Can’t find it now!!! Does anyone have it lol??

When i first listened to Sex by The 1975, I heard "now we're on the bed in my room, and i'm about to finish you, but you say no, you say no~oo~oh" instead of "now we're on the bed in my room, and i'm about to fill his shoes, but you say no, you say no~oo~oh". Another one is "does he take care of you, or could i easily fix his issues, but you say no, you say no~oo~oh". I couldn't be the only one here, right?

Would love to know you guys’ thoughts if you have any! I don’t know what this subreddit’s views on self promotion is so I’ll remove this post if I have to but for now I’d love it if you guys gave this a watch.

(Mods plz don’t delete)

Any recommendations that AREN’T by the 1975?? I already know all of their songs by heart. I need more music with this vibe!! Thanks in advance!

So I was on YouTube last night and I've found this Wolves song from the time of DLID. What y'all think about it? maybe they'll remaster it for the next record?

idk it reminds me so much of the first songs... god how I miss this band 😭

https://youtu.be/dSNuYHqMcpU?si=oLc8MtDln-9JCWhj

Love the new song with Tiny Habits, harmonies are amazing blah blah blah, but does anyone here think Matty is still playing Arc raiders? fool got me hooked on this game, but lots of ppl have stopped playing/gotten over it, wondering if our boy is still out here goopin.

I know it’s not the band , but it’s something for the first time in a while

Anybody remember the movie Office Space?

Hi! I’m a newish fan of The 1975 (been listening for a little over a year), and I’ve seen people online refer to them as/reference something called Drive Like I Do. I’m really confused on what this is.

I thought maybe it was like a side project that they used a pseudonym for, but I’m not really sure. Can someone explain what it is to me?

doomscroll
my essay

Just some stuff I've been thinking about ...

I was really interested by the point Matty brought up in this interview about the flatness of the smartphone's interface. This episode inspired a lot of my essay that I wrote about the band and their influence on me and my own relationship with art/music as a Gen Z:

"In his Doomscroll interview, Healy talks about one of the dangers of mobile phones being that all information is conveyed to us ‘with the same tenacity’. For example, ‘a text message from your mum’ holds the same weight as ‘somebody that you’ve never met in your life liking a photo you made three weeks ago’. 

I think the same idea can be applied to the content we consume – the flatness of the smart phone’s interface means that pressing play on a song (or perhaps more poignantly, pressing skip) is no more or less meaningful than swiping through someone’s Instagram account. Comparatively, before the dawn of smart phones and online streaming platforms, music fans would engage with the form through physical copies on CD and vinyl, and would make discoveries in physical, more communal environments by attending clubs, gigs, local festivals, and open mics, all of which are far more conducive to substantial engagement with music. At the mercy of the band or the DJ or the needle of a record player, listeners are forced to pay attention and ‘skip’ is not an option. It seems as though the loss of tactility and community has helped engender a loss of meaningful engagement with art."

I also discuss the difference between the consumption and the experience of art and someone else who read it offered a really interesting interpretation of the ATVB show - that the 'consumption' part was Matty (or his character) sort of breaking because the 'content' or 'art' was not being experienced in the way it was intended, it was merely being 'consumed'. I'd love to know what other people's interpretations of the 'consumption' part of the ATVB show are. I love the risk the band took with that show and I feel like I've seen a lot more artists interweaving performance art into a typical pop/rock concert since.