Line #90 Music/The1975


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:L to R: Adam Hann, Matty Healy, George Daniel, and [=Ross MacDonald=]. ]]
3	->''Go down\
4	Soft sound\
5	Midnight\
6	Car lights \
7	Playing with the air\
8	Breathing in your hair\
9	Go down\
10	Soft sound\
11	Step into your skin? I'd rather jump in your bones\
12	Taking up your mouth, so you breathe through your nose.''
13	-->-- "The 1975", the [[AlbumIntroTrack intro]] of the band's first three albums[[note]]All of the first tracks of their albums thus far have been titled "The 1975", but the above lyrics were swapped for original lyrics from ''Notes on a Conditional Form'' onward.[[/note]]
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15	[floatboxright: Influences:
16	+Creator/JohnHughes, Music/TalkingHeads, Music/MyBloodyValentine, Music/MichaelJackson, Music/{{Ride}}, Music/ChristinaAguilera, Music/DAngelo, Music/BoardsOfCanada, Music/SigurRos, Music/TheBlueNile, Music/PeterGabriel, Music/{{Prince}}, Roberta Flack...
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19	The 1975 are an English band formed in 2012 in Wilmslow, Cheshire and now based in Manchester, United Kingdom. The band consists of singer[=/=]lyricist[=/=]rhythm guitarist[=/=]frontman Matty Healy, drummer[=/=]producer George Daniel, lead guitarist Adam Hann, and bassist Ross [=MacDonald=].
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21	While their sound can be somewhat summarized as pop rock, it is known for its eclecticism and wide array of influences, taking leads from genres such as {{New Wave\|Music}}, PowerPop, AlternativeDance, and SophistiPop. Among the numerous influences the band has publicly cited over the years, Matty has stated that his greatest influence is the filmmaker Creator/JohnHughes.
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23	The band is known not only for their unique sound but also for their specifically crafted image and lyrics. Around their rise to fame, the band requested that all paparazzi photos of them be shot and released [[DeliberatelyMonochrome in black and white]], and all their music videos up until the re-recorded album version of "Sex" were black and white as well. The band's lyrics, principally written by Matty, explore ideas such as sex, love, drugs, hope, death, and fear as experienced in contemporary life, often through central subjects like the Internet, youth[=/=]millennial culture, masculinity, and politics. These lyrics often have a witty, dark (in [[BlackComedy various]] [[GallowsHumor senses]]), and frequently self-aware tone towards their subjects and even themselves, which Matty has described as [[PostModernism postmodern]].
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25	This tone extends into the public persona (especially the stage persona) of Matty, which has become one of the most (in)famous aspects of the band. He is known for playing a "meta-layered" version of himself during shows, intended to serve as a commentary on ideas including fame and the concept of a rock star itself, from what he has described as a want to play with audiences' awareness of rock star cliches. Apart from doing things such as actively acknowledging the setup of the show and his role in it, his onstage behavior has included chain smoking, drinking red wine while singing (often straight from the bottle), eating raw steaks, fondling himself, kissing fans (or sucking their thumbs), and making a number of statements (some of them satirical or deliberately provocative) that have led to recurring controversies, in some cases due to people [[PoesLaw taking his actions at face value]].
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27	The band began when Matty[[note]]who is also the son of actors Denise Welch and Creator/TimHealy[[/note]] met the other members in high school. Through a community organization, they began playing gigs in 2002. Matty was originally the group’s drummer but became the vocalist once George Daniel was recruited. Some of the group's older work can be found under the names Talkhouse, the Slowdown, Bigsleep, and most prominently Drive Like I Do. Their current name was inspired by a Beat poetry notebook that Matty found on holiday which was dated “1 June, The 1975”. Matty stated that his attraction to the name was through finding it to be [[RuleOfCool "a strong use of language"]].
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29	After almost a decade of playing together, The 1975 began professionally releasing music in 2012. Between that year and the next, they released four [=EPs=] -- ''Facedown'', ''Sex'', ''Music for Cars'', and ''IV'' -- that all saw success, ranging from local radio airplay to eventual major mainstream success and appearances on the UK singles chart. In the years leading up to and throughout the release of their [=EPs=], the band toured extensively and supported Music/{{Muse}}, Music/{{The Rolling Stones\|Band}}, and Music/TheNeighbourhood.
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31	In September 2013, The 1975 released their self-titled debut album, which debuted at #1 on the UK Albums Chart. Their second album, ''I like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it'', was released in 2016 and again debuted at #1. Matty initially stated that their third album would be titled ''Music for Cars'' after the EP, but it wound up being named ''A Brief Inquiry into Online Relationships'' and released in November 2018. He also announced that there would be another album to be released in 2020, called ''Notes on a Conditional Form''. ''Notes'' was followed by 2022's ''Being Funny In A Foreign Language''.
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33	!!Lineup:
34	* Matthew “Matty” Healy (vocals, guitar, piano)
35	* Adam Hann (guitar, backing vocals, keyboards)
36	* [=Ross MacDonald=] (bass, backing vocals, keyboards)
37	* George Daniel (drums, backing vocals)
38	!!!Touring musicians:
39	[[AC:Current]]
40	* John Waugh (saxophone, piano, keyboards, synthesisers) (2013-)
41	* Jamie Squire (synthesisers, keyboards, piano, rhythm guitar, backing vocals) (2015-)
42	* Polly Money – rhythm guitar, keyboards, backing vocals (2022–)
43	* Gabrielle Marie King – percussion (2023–)
44	[[AC:Former]]
45	* Taitlyn Jaiy – backing vocals, dancing (2018–2020)
46	* Kaylee Jaiy – backing vocals, dancing (2018–2020)
47	* Carly Holt – guest vocals (2022)
48	* Rebekah Rayner – percussion (2022–2023)
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50	!!The 1975's discography:
51	* ''Facedown EP'' (2012)
52	* ''Sex EP'' (2012)
53	* ''Music For Cars EP'' (2013)
54	* ''IV EP'' (2013)
55	* ''[[Music/The1975Album The 1975]]'' (2013)
56	--> Singles: "The City" (2012/2013), "Sex" (2012/2013), "Chocolate" (2013), "Girls" (2013), "Settle Down" (2014), "Robbers" (2014), "Heart Out" (2014)
57	* "Medicine" (2014)
58	* ''[[Music/ILikeItWhenYouSleepForYouAreSoBeautifulYetSoUnawareOfIt I like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it]]'' (2016)
59	--> Singles: "Love Me" (2015), "UGH!" (2015), "The Sound" (2016), "A Change of Heart" (2016), "Somebody Else" (2016)
60	* ''A Brief Inquiry into Online Relationships'' (2018)
61	--> Singles: "Give Yourself a Try" (2018), "TOOTIMETOOTIMETOOTIME" (2018), "Sincerity is Scary" (2018), "It's Not Living (If It's Not with You)" (2018)
62	* ''Notes on a Conditional Form'' (2020)
63	--> Singles: "The 1975" (2019), "People" (2019), "Frail State of Mind" (2019), "Me & You Together Song" (2020), "The Birthday Party" (2020), "Jesus Christ 2005 God Bless America" (2020), "If You're Too Shy (Let Me Know)" (2020), "Guys" (2020)
64	* ''Being Funny in a Foreign Language'' (2022)
65	--> Singles: "Part of the Band" (2022), "Happiness" (2022), "I'm In Love With You" (2022), "All I Need to Hear" (2022)
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67	!!We're never gonna quit troping, no, we're never gonna quit troping, no...
68	* AffectionateParody: In the video for "Love Me", as well as some of their live shows, Matty tends to purposefully imitate frontmen like [[Music/TheDoors Jim Morrison,]] [[Music/LedZeppelin Robert Plant]] and [[Music/TheRollingStonesBand Mick Jagger.]]
69	* AlbumIntroTrack: Every album intro thus far has been titled "The 1975", and the band has [[PlayingWithATrope experimented]] with the role these intros play.
70	** The first three albums' intros all used the same lyrics, and following the first intro, each future iteration was revamped to match the style of its album and [[EstablishingCharacterMoment introduce it to the listener]]. The self-titled album's intro had a gentle ambient feel, ''I like it when you sleep''[='=]s intro added a choir and additional synth elements for a fuller sound, and ''A Brief Inquiry''[='=]s intro used a more experimental structure largely built around heavily stacked and manipulated vocals of Matty. Matty has summarized the intros' purpose as the band "checking in" on the listener, and cited inspiration from the distinct startup sounds of video game consoles.
71	--->"What we’re doing is kind of like checking in every time. You open the door and you see someone you haven’t seen for what- in person. But hey, your hair’s different, you know? That kind of thing."
72	** ''Notes on a Conditional Form'' replaced the lyrics entirely with a speech on climate change by Greta Thunberg, reportedly the result of the band striving to find "the most modern statement" to kick off the album, while ''Being Funny'' replaced them again with new lyrics that have been described as Matty "holding himself accountable, and pointing out his flaws".
73	* AlcoholicParent: "She Lays Down" is about Matty's mother, who had issues with alcoholism and drug addiction while he was growing up.
74	* AmbiguouslyBi: [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] in "The Sound":
75	-->''"She said 'I've got a problem with your shoes and your tunes, but I might move in' and 'I thought that you were straight, now I'm wondering.'"''
76	* ArcWords: "Soft sound" in their debut, and "lost my head" in the second.
77	** The phrase "poetry is in the streets in full living colour" and variants thereof has appeared in several of their music videos.
78	* AutoTune: The 1975 haven't been shy with pitch correction in the past, but used the software's famous "zero" feature on "TOOTIMETOOTIMETOOTIME" and "I Like America & America Likes Me" on ''A Brief Inquiry.''
79	* BigBrotherInstinct: "Is There Somebody Who Can Watch You?" is about how the protagonist feels responsible for his little brother following their parents' divorce.
80	* BigRockEnding: The last four measures of "Sex" gradually slow to a hault as the entire song collapses in on itself, before ending with a synthesizer-based take on this trope.
81	* BlackComedy: As a lyricist, Matty has the tendency to write about serious topics in flippant, sometimes sarcastic ways. Take 'Menswear', which is about a wedding going rapidly downhill, and includes the protagonist snorting cocaine in the bathroom and telling the bride he never really liked her in his speech. All of this is PlayedForLaughs.
82	** Songs like 'UGH!', 'M.O.N.E.Y.' and 'Paris' all revolve around drug addiction but have somewhat humorous lines/aspects.
83	* BookEnds: "Sex" opens and ends with a loud whirring sound.
84	* BritishRockstar: Matty, although his playing up to the stereotypes of this trope is mostly {{irony}}.
85	* ButtMonkey: Poor Adam.
86	* CallBack:
87	** "A Change Of Heart" references lyrics from "The City," "Robbers," and "Sex."
88	** "Lostmyhead" is based entirely around the final stanza of "Facedown".
89	* CarefulWithThatAxe: Matty's a tenor, so this is expected naturally.
90	** Their first album's most chilling (and [[TearJerker saddening]]) moment comes from his epic scream on "Robbers": ''Now everybody's '''''DEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAD!!'''''''
91	** ''"WELL I THINK I'VE GONE ''''MAAAAAAAAAAAAAD!!"''
92	** The verses of "People", as well as its final chorus, consist of Matty screaming.
93	* ClusterFBomb:
94	** "People" drops "fuck" several times in the chorus.
95	** "Yeah I Know" repeats the "Hit that shit, go hit that shit" 14 times, for a total of 28 uses of "shit".
96	* CoverSong: They've done a few of these. The most well-known examples are their covers of "Sorry" by Justin Bieber, "Rather Be" by Clean Bandit, "What Makes You Beautiful" by One Direction, "By Your Side" by {{Music/Sade}}, and "thank u, next" by Music/ArianaGrande.
97	** Inverted; several artists have covered their songs, including {{Music/Lorde}} ("Somebody Else"), Music/CharliXCX and Music/ChristineAndTheQueens ("TOOTIMETOOTIMETOOTIME"), and Music/RinaSawayama ("Love It If We Made It").
98	* DarkerAndEdgier: Although ''The 1975'' has its darker moments, it mostly sticks to the themes of romance and heartbreak, whereas ''I like it when you sleep'' primarily deals with the themes of mental illness, drug addiction and death. It's somewhat ironic, considering the aesthetic for the second album is much brighter and more colourful, and the first album's aesthetic was monochrome and moody.
99	%%* DeadpanSnarker: Ross.
100	* DeliberatelyMonochrome: All of their videos from their first album, except for the second version of "Sex".
101	* DopeSlap: "M.O.N.E.Y.":
102	-->''"I'm searchin' for you, mate, your jaw's all over the place / Can't talk, quick slap in the face..."''
103	* DownerEnding:
104	** The final three songs on ''I like it when you sleep...'' are all {{Tear Jerker}} songs about heroin use, Matty's dead grandmother and his mother's cocaine addiction, respectively.
105	** The last song on their SelfTitledAlbum is a LonelyPianoPiece.
106	** 'Robbers', especially if you subscribe to the interpretation that they're the same couple in 'A Change Of Heart'.
107	* DrugsAreBad:
108	** "M.O.N.E.Y." Ironically, on the album this song is on, this song is followed by "Chocolate". See DrugsAreGood below.
109	** "UGH!" describes a cocaine addict (aka Matty referring to himself in the third person) making an ass out of themselves at a party.
110	** Several songs on ''A Brief Inquiry'' detail Matty's heroin addiction and subsequent rehab. "I Couldn’t Be More in Love" is even about his fear that the 1975 fanbase will call it quits by the time that he is done rehab.
111	* DrugsAreGood: Replace all instances of the word "chocolate" with "marijuana" in '[[http://rock.rapgenius.com/The-1975-chocolate-lyrics Chocolate]]', and it makes incredible sense.
112	* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: "Sex".
113	* FadingIntoTheNextSong: On ''The 1975'', "Heart Out" --> "Settle Down" --> "Robbers"
114	* FakeOutFadeOut: "Is There Somebody Who Can Watch You?"
115	* FanDisservice: Watching Matty masturbate/make sex faces in the "Somebody Else" video ''should'' be something you want to see, but the [[MindScrew mind screw]] element is difficult to get over, making it seem unsettling and incredibly fucked up instead.
116	* FunWithSubtitles: In concert, the ''A Brief Inquiry'' version of "The 1975" has its lyrics displayed one word at a time on the backdrop screen. The lone piano chord that strikes after the line, "Go down go down, soft sound," is given a full screen "(PIANO)".
117	* TheGadfly: Matty has received notoriety within the music press for just this.
118	* GenreBusting: The band's specific combination of 80s SynthPop, 00s Indie Rock, ElectronicMusic and Art Rock is commonly referred to as "Shiver Pop," in some music circles.
119	* GenreRoulette: Their debut album ''The 1975'' and the preceding [=EPs=] are routed in Indie Rock with elements of {{Ambient}} music, PostRock, {{Shoegazing}}, 80s-style SynthPop and ElectronicMusic.
120	** ''I like it when you sleep'' further incorporates SynthPop while dipping into Art Rock, SophistiPop, NeoSoul and, in one instance, a full-on gospel song.
121	** ''A Brief Inquiry'' toned down the 80s sheen of the two previous albums, incorporating 90s {{Britpop}} and RAndB, as well as a few genre exercises in a post-punk song, a UK garage song and ''a 1930s jazz ballad.''
122	** ''Notes'', outside of its three-song opening run (which includes a noise rock song), oscillates mainly between country-tinged songs and UK garage bangers. The second half of the album features, in rough order: a 90's RAndB/gospel song; a song that samples legends Hiroshi Sato and Music/TheTemptations; two progressive deep house songs that wouldn't be out of place on the immense and influental Anjunadeep record label; a song heavily indebted to modern pop tropes with pitched down vocals; and the return of the "shiver pop" and late-in-the-runtime piano ballad unique to ''I like it when you sleep''.
123	* GoingColdTurkey: 'UGH!' centres around the narrator failing to do this.
124	* GriefSong: "Nana" is a pretty straightforward example.
125	* HiddenTrack: "Milk", at the end of "You".
126	* IndecipherableLyrics: Occurs often, due to Matty's rather eccentric voice.
127	* IntercourseWithYou: A handful of their songs are about this trope, including '[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Sex]]'. It should be noted, though, that few if any of them are just about the act, instead usually being about varying couple dynamics.
128	* {{Irony}}: The main hook of the song "Talk!", which is basically shouted:
129	-->'''Why you talk so loud? / Why you talk so?'''
130	** The ordering of "M.O.N.E.Y." and "Chocolate" on ''The 1975'' album. See DrugsAreBad.
131	** Their music is influenced more by the 1980s and the 1990s, rather than the 19''7''0s, but "Pressure" kind of sounds 1970s-ish, what with the guitars, effects and saxophone.
132	** "If I Believe You" is an anti-religious song... with a gospel choir in it.
133	* ItWillNeverCatchOn: The band were notoriously rejected by every single major label, who claimed they were [[GenreRoulette too eclectic]] and radio would hate them. As of 2016, they've had six top 40 singles, and are frequently praised for their eclectic sound.
134	* LampshadedDoubleEntendre: The opening line of ''Being Funny in a Foreign Language''.
135	-->''This'll get bigger, if you know what I mean.''
136	* LastNoteNightmare: "The 1975" on ''The 1975'' ends with a loud clang, detracting away from the song's ethereal feel. It's also heard briefly at the beginning of the song, and also twice in "Anobrain".
137	** {{Book End\|s}}ed with "Sex", which opens ''and'' closes with an ear-shattering... '''moan''' of some sort. At the very end of the song, however, after the moan ends, it closes with a nice guitar chord.
138	* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: The protagonist in "M.O.N.E.Y." is apparently so bad that even Matty himself calls him out for what he's done. See LyricalDissonance.
139	* {{Leitmotif}}: The "Music for Cars" motif is a major-add 4 chord[[note]]eg. in the C Major scale, C, E, F and G (or Do, Mi, Fa and So, if you prefer)[[/note]] played via twinkling piano and harp notes. The motif appears several times across both ''A Brief Inquiry'' and ''Notes'' (albums both released under the banner title "Music for Cars"):
140	** ''A Brief Inquiry'': "How to Draw/Petrichor", "Be My Mistake", "The Man Who Married a Robot/Love Theme", "Surrounded by Heads and Bodies"
141	** ''Notes'': "The 1975", "Streaming", "The Birthday Party", "Guys"
142	* ListSong: "Love It If We Made It", to the extent that it's been summarized as the 21st-century equivalent of "[[Music/BillyJoel We Didn't Start the Fire]]" by many. Through a stream-of-consciousness style with lyrics formatted like buzzwords and headlines, the song touches on -- among many other topics -- the commodification of black lives in America, the profiting off the poor that fuels the prison industrial complex, the Syrian refugee crisis, internet apathy, the dismissal of facts as opinions, and a verbatim quote from then-American president UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump that many took as him confirming and bragging about having sexually assaulted women.
143	* LonelyPianoPiece: "Is There Somebody Who Could Watch You?".
144	* LyricalDissonance: They are ''very'' fond of this trope.
145	** "The 1975", which nearly becomes a gospel song in its ''I like it when you sleep'' version, is about receiving oral sex.
146	** "M.O.N.E.Y." is an upbeat funk song about a boy who wastes his money on cocaine to be cool, but eventually gets hurt badly by it ("Tabs with unlimited 0's / New clothes, bloody nose / Powders and walking back home / Has he got enough weed? No / Broken phone, retching on the floor alone..."), is even [[NoFourthWall called out by the narrator]] ("I can't believe that we're talking about him!") and eventually gets arrested ("I'm searching you, mate, your jaw's all over the place... / Look, the dog won't bark if you don't lark about..."). The song even has Matty sighing at the end like he's just so completely done with the boy and his misdeeds.
147	** "UGH!" is a very catchy Music/ScrittiPolitti-style song about a cocaine relapse. The video, which consists of bright lights and [[DancingWithMyself Matty's dancing,]] doesn't hurt, either.
148	** "A Change Of Heart" is a chill pop song about a relationship that's falling apart because the people involved are finally seeing each other as they really are.
149	** "The Sound," one of the band's biggest singalongs and a standout single, is also about seeing someone else's true self after the relationship has crumbled, but bonus points for the pre-chorus line of, "You're so conceited, I / said that I love you / What does it matter if I lie to you?"
150	** "TOOTIMETOOTIMETOOTIME" is a fun dance-pop number about a ''really'' dysfunctional relationship: the narrator cheats on his girlfriend and lies to her, and they regularly fight.
151	** "It's Not Living (If It's Not With You)" is a very upbeat song about Matty's heroin addiction.
152	* MachineMonotone: "The Man Who Married a Robot" is narrated by Siri.
153	* TheMasochismTango: Much of their music features this, although "Robbers" is the most obvious example.
154	* MetalScream: "People" features one from Matty, unaccompanied.
155	* MindScrew: The "Somebody Else" video. It opens with a 3 minute homage to Creator/DavidLynch's ''Rabbits'', for starters. The main plot is also [[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness hallucinatory]], with parts of the video being revealed to have been a fiction of Matty's mind.
156	* MinisculeRocking: "The 1975", "An Encounter", "12", "Is There Somebody Who Can Watch You?" and "Anobrain".
157	* NeverTrustATitle: You'd think, understandably, "Please Be Naked" might be a [[IntercourseWithYou song about sex,]] but instead, it's a lyric-less piano-based ambient piece, reminiscent of Music/BrianEno's recent album ''The Ship''.
158	* NoAccountingForTaste: "Paris" centres around a couple whose relationship hinges on their shared drug use, even though the narrator doesn't really seem to like his girlfriend at all.
159	-->''She's a pain in the nose, I'm a pain in woman's clothes, and you're a walking overdose in a greatcoat.''
160	* NonAppearingTitle: "The 1975", "An Encounter", "Robbers", "Menswear", "12", "Antichrist", "The Ballad of Me and My Brain" and "Nana" among others.
161	* OdeToIntoxication: "Chocolate". See DrugsAreGood above. 'Paris' could also qualify, if you go by the interpretation that 'Paris' is really just a metaphor for hard drugs.
162	* OnThree: Subverted in live performances of their concert closer, "The Sound". The audience is asked to go berserk for the guitar solo and final chorus "on the count of four." The countdown, as spelled out in giant letters on the backdrop screen, goes "''ONE, TWO, FUCKING GO''"
163	* OneWordTitle: The majority of their songs early on. Some are even combinations of words, such as "Menswear" (as in 'men's wear', [[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant not]] 'men swear'), "Facedown", "fallingforyou" and "Lostmyhead".
164	* PlatonicLifePartners: Matty and George. When Matty began using drugs again, George personally got him back on track.
165	* PlatonicDeclarationOfLove: "Guys", a song the band members wrote in honor of each other and their time together in the band.
166	* PrecisionFStrike:
167	** "You":
168	--->''And it's not my fault/that I fucked everybody here''
169	** "Sex":
170	--->''And I'm not trying to stop you, love/But if we can't do anything, we might as well just fuck.''
171	** "Heart Out":
172	--->''Your obsession with rocks and brown and fucking the whole town/is a reflection on your mental health.''
173	** "Girls":
174	--->''Well, shouldn't you be fucking with somebody your age instead of making changes?''
175	** "Somebody Else":
176	--->''[='=]Get someone you want? Get someone you need?[='=] Fuck that, get money.''
177	** "UGH!":
178	--->''I don't have the capacity to be fucking / You're meant to be helping me.''
179	** "Give Yourself A Try":
180	--->''And you'll make a lot of money and it's funny / 'Cause you'll move somewhere sunny and get addicted to drugs / And spend obscene amounts on fucking seeds and beans online''
181	** "Love It If We Made It" includes two -- the opening line ("We're fucking in a car, shooting heroin / Saying controversial things just for the hell of it"), and the first line after the bridge ("'I moved on her like a bitch!'"), the latter being a direct quote from UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump that resurfaced in the lead-up to the 2016 presidential campaign.
182	* ProtestSong:
183	** "Love It If We Made It" and "I Like America and America Likes Me" are more esoteric examples, with the former being compared to a modern-day [[Music/BillyJoel "We Didn't Start The Fire"]] and the latter containing references to American gun violence.
184	** The first two singles released from ''Notes on a Conditional Form'' are more straightforward examples.
185	*** The album's iteration of the band's self-titled intro "The 1975" contains a monologue from Swedish climate change activist Greta Thunberg in which she calls for civil disobedience and rebellion to bring about the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.
186	*** "People" contains references to millennials through their idolization of UsefulNotes/BarackObama, seemingly caring more about marijuana legalization than the climate crisis, and being complacent in the problems of the world and refusing to take them seriously, while also discussing failing economies and governments.
187	* QuirkyCurls: Matty has naturally very zig-zaggy, all over the place curly hair, as well as the eccentric personality to match.
188	* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Several of the drug escapades and mental breakdowns detailed throughout ''I like it when you sleep'' and ''A Brief Inquiry'' happened in full or in part to lead singer Matty:
189	** "UGH!" is an out-of-body experience about being on cocaine at a party, shifting between first- and second-person narration.
190	** "She's American" references Matty's on-stage mental breakdown in Boston during their first tour.
191	** "It's Not Living (If It's Not with You)" is a frank dicussion of Matty's time in rehab for heroin, speaking through the character of Danny.
192	** "Surrounded by Heads and Bodies" is about a woman named Angela, whom Matty had grown up with on the same street, appearing in rehab alongside him.
193	** "I Couldn't Be More in Love" is about Matty's frank concern that his life and band will entirely unravel once he enters rehab. The vocal take was recorded just before doing so, and the pain shows through.
194	* RearrangeTheSong: The song "The 1975" opens each album, each time in a new variation that doubles as that album's mission statement:
195	** ''The 1975'' received a plaintive, indie rock version complete with a field recording that echoed their style at the time.
196	** ''I like it when you sleep'''s version uses a choir and bass synth to sound lush and anthemic, highlighting the dramatic 80s sweeps throughout this album.
197	** ''A Brief Inquiry'''s version is a straight recording of Matty singing alone with a piano, but the vocal is manipulated through a plug-in known as the Prismizer[[note]]a device previously used by Music/FrankOcean and Music/BonIver that generates multiple vocoded lines freely assignable to any pitch or chord in real-time[[/note]], generating an impenetrable field of robotic Mattys, echoing the falsity in the wealth of online content that the album discusses.
198	* ReligionRantSong: Matty is infamous for his hatred of religion, even [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzeWFfVzWGU&ab_channel=Starsatjoiz referring to religion as a disease.]] Both "Antichrist" and "If I Believe You" talk about how if God was real, he wouldn't allow Him or other people to suffer as they have. However he has since regretted this phase, refusing to play "Antichrist" live.
199	* {{Retraux}}: Matty says that the band's sound is influenced by John Hughes movies from the 1980s. On songs like "Sex", "Girls" or "Heart Out", it shows.
200	* {{Sampling}}: "Give Yourself A Try" samples its riff from [[Music/JoyDivision Joy Division's]] "Disorder".
201	* SanitySlippageSong: Both 'The Ballad of Me and My Brain' and 'lostmyhead' are pretty straight examples, although the former is much more comedic than the latter.
202	* ScrewYourself: [[spoiler: The reveal for the video for 'Somebody Else'. See [[MindScrew Mind Screw]] above.]]
203	* SelfDeprecation: A common theme.
204	--> '''"Loving Someone":''' ''"I'm the Greek economy of cashing intellectual cheques."''
205	* SelfTitledAlbum: Their debut.
206	* SexDrugsAndRockAndRoll: One of the most notable modern examples.
207	* ShoutOut: The video for "Heart Out" could be seen as one to the "Badder" segment in ''Film/{{Moonwalker}}'', as it centers around a performance of the song done by kids at a talent show.
208	** "You" to the Lesley Gore song "It's My Party", with the lyric "It's my party and I'll cry until it ends".
209	** The extended intro in the video for "Somebody Else" is one to David Lynch's ''Rabbits''.
210	** The concert segments of the video for “It’s Not Living (If It’s Not With You)” are a love letter to ''Film/{{Stop Making Sense}}'', complete with backup singers and “Danny” wearing David Byrne’s iconic white business suit.
211	* ShrinkingViolet: Adam is by far the least talkative member of the band, as well as the most softly spoken.
212	* SingingVoiceDissonance: Matthew Healy speaks with a typical deep English-accented voice, but when he sings he has a much more high-pitched voice. His lower register was finally showcased on "Inside Your Mind".
213	** Also when the band played a gig at Glastonbury in 2014. When "Robbers" played, a high-squeaky voice could be heard behind Healy's. It is assumed it is George Daniel's, despite George having a very, very deep speaking voice in real life.
214	* StealthInsult: WordOfGod is that ''I like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it'' is actually a backhanded compliment.
215	* SurprisinglyGentleSong: The band has a few examples, including "HSNCC" and "Is There Somebody To Watch You" (considering it’s the end track) from their self titled debut album, and there’s more:
216	** ILIWYSFYASBYSUOI: "Nana, "She Lays Down", & "How To Draw".
217	** ABIIOR: "The Man Who Married A Robot" & "Surrounded By Heads And Bodies".
218	** NOACF: "Yeah I Know", "Streaming", & "The Birthday Party".
219	* TakeThat: From "Love Me": "Caught up in fashion, Karcrashian panache/and a bag of bash for passion/[[DontExplainTheJoke You got a beautiful face but got nothing to say (oh!)]]"
220	** TakeThatAudience: The lyric "As the crowd cheers for an overdose" from "Paris", which is possibly an allusion to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mA5zqZDRAS8 this]].
221	*** And once again in "She's American", satirising the sensationalist response from social media to incidents like the above video, as well as Matty's complete mental breakdown during a show in Boston:
222	---> "Look, he's having a breakdown! Oh what a shame, I think he might die!"
223	** TakeThatCritics: The entire premise of the video for "The Sound". As a band plays in a glass cube, onlookers dress in white appear to be miming the act of giving criticism. As pink title cards fill the screen with actual comments made about the band ("Unconvincing emo lyrics", "I only heard 'Chocolate' once but I hated it"), the band ends up swapping places with the critics as the cube fills with pink smoke.
224	* ThoseTwoGuys: Adam and Ross.
225	* ThreeMinutesOfWrithing: The "Girls" video is both a spoof on this trope, and a spin on Robert Palmer's series of videos involving a all-female backing band, specifically "Simply Irresistible".
226	* ThroughTheEyesOfMadness: The "Somebody Else" video.
227	** "The Ballad of Me and My Brain" details the narrator having some kind of psychotic breakdown, and [[spoiler: it's revealed at the end that he's likely in some kind of mental hospital.]]
228	* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: George is apparently 'petrified of snakes'.
229	* WordSaladLyrics: Subverted. Matty's lyrics can sometimes sound random, but they make sense in the context of the lyrics surrounding them.
230	* WordSaladTitle: "She Way Out", "[=Intro/Set3=]", "Anobrain", "HNSCC", "Head.Cars.Bending".
231	* WorthLivingFor: The bookends of ''A Brief Inquiry'', "Give Yourself a Try" and "I Always Wanna Die (Sometimes)"; the latter has as a final lyric, "If you can't survive; just try".

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