In 1975, the band's new album A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships brought them a double harvest of sales and word-of-mouth, but before that, the main creator Matthew Healy had to restore his healthy physical condition.
Text: Moonlight Daydreaming
Editor: Aki
1975 A Brief Study of Network Relations
Last June, 1975 the band completed a run-out show at Madison Garden Square. This is an important moment for them. The British-based group recently broke through the U.S. market with their second album, I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware of It, which topped the charts in 2016.
1975 "I Love the Way You Fall Asleep Because You're So Beautiful But You Don't Know It"
Before you go on stage, you'll see a picture of Michael Jackson performing here, said lead singer and guitarist Matthew Healy, and I remember looking at it and thinking, 'This is so crazy.' ”
In fact, Matthew had little memory of that night. "It was a strange time," he added, "and I was still taking a lot of medicine." ”
Matthew at the time of the Madison Garden Plaza show
Matthew Healy founded the band in the early 1975s with drummer George Daniel, bassist Ross McDonald, and lead guitarist Adam Han. Over the years, they have mocked the concept of rock stars while perfectly interpreting it.
"We are the best emotional core band in Manchester in 2009 and the worst pop band of 2015." Matthew said, "But we don't care at all. ”
As the band's status grew, Matthew's dependence on opium and anti-anxiety drugs deepened. By the summer of 2017, he began to use heroin frequently. "[That's mostly because] the polar difference between communicating with ten thousand spectators at the same time and returning to the hotel room alone. General friendship and real loneliness. Only through medication can I better regulate these. ”
1975 Band
To complete his 1975 new album, A Brief Study of Network Relations, Matthew realized he had to quit his bad habits. Shortly after starting production of the album, he found a rehabilitation centre for himself in Barbados and underwent 6 weeks of intense treatment.
"Physically, [rehabilitation] is very painful, especially cutting off anti-anxiety drugs." "A week later, he recalled, I thought, 'Fuck this thing, I'm going to swim home.' But I finally stuck with it. I said to myself: 'There are more important things to accomplish in my life.' ’”
Matthew added: "A lot of people have already lost everything when they enter the rehabilitation center. Their relationships can't be repaired anymore. I used to scare a lot of people who cared about me, and that was bad enough for me. I need to stop fooling around. ”
1975 band lead singer Matthew
He had returned to London in December of the previous year and had moved into a recording studio on the outskirts of Oxford with his band 1975. There, they will spend 7 months recording a short study of network relations.
With bizarre sound effects that span intense rock and low-pitched vocals, the new album makes even their predecessors seem too mild. The lyrics Matthew wrote are also full of blunt introspection about drug addiction and other more topical content. "The more honest I am, the more I resonate with people." He shrugged and said.
For example, in the single "Love It If We Made It", he sings in repetitive passages with a slightly desperate tone about misogyny ("I'm on her like a bitch/excited about being accused",[1]), the death of a celebrity ("Rest in peace, Lil Pip/Poetry has arrived on the streets", [2]), structural racism ("Selling melanin but suffocating black people to death", [3]), and others. "I feel a little angry and a little confused and want to show them."
Single "Love It If We Can Do It"
In Give Yourself a Try, Matthew mentions him as a "baby boomer 4 favorite millennial." In fact, he did forge a friendship for years with Mick Jagger, who was born in the baby boom era. In 2013, 1975 the band gave a warm-up performance for the Rolling Stones in Hyde Park.
In 1975, the band gave a warm-up performance for the Rolling Stones in Hyde Park
Right now, Matthew Healy is sitting in his los Angeles apartment, looking out over the beautiful Sunset Boulevard. "That's exactly what Hollywood looks like in my imagination," he said, "and we're in it." ”
Even while they were still preparing for the Short Study of Network Relations tour, 1975 the band began working on their next album, Notes on Conditional Forms, which they hoped would release in June.
At the same time, Matthew is more satisfied with his drug dependence over the past year. "It's not easy, man," he said, "I don't look down on people who can't stick to [rehab], but you always have to try hard, or your prospects will be too bleak." ”
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[1] The lyrics are derived from a 2005 recorded conversation by U.S. President Donald Trump in which he mentioned his attitude toward sexually harassing women.
[2] Lil Peep, an American rapper, died in November 2017 due to an overdose.
[3] This lyric refers to the excessive abuse and fraudulent use of black culture in society, but it still has not changed the current situation of discrimination and oppression of black people in reality.
[4] Points to the generation born after the end of World War II, that is, between 1946 and 1964.