Music / I like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it

You're so conceited, I said that I love you
What does it matter if I lie to you?

And you're the only thing that's going on in my mind
Taking over my life a second time
I don't have the capacity for fucking
You're meant to be helping me
When I said I liked it better without my money, I lied
It took a little while to recognise
That I, I'm not giving it up again

— "UGH!"

I like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it is the second studio album by English band The 1975. It was released on 26 February 2016 through Dirty Hit and Polydor Records.

The album was ranked as one of the best of its year and decade by several publications, and debuted at #1 in various countries, including the UK and the US. (Its performance on the Billboard 200 chart of the latter country made it the longest-titled Billboard #1 album in history.) Its box set also received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package, the band's first Grammy nomination.

The album was supported by seven singles: "Love Me", "UGH!", "Somebody Else", "The Sound", "A Change of Heart", "She's American" and "Loving Someone".

Tracklist:

1. "The 1975" (1:23)
2. "Love Me" (3:42)
3. "UGH!" (3:00)
4. "A Change Of Heart" (4:43)
5. "She's American" (4:30)
6. "If I Believe You" (6:20)
7. "Please Be Naked" (4:25)
8. "Lostmyhead" (5:19)
9. "The Ballad of Me and My Brain" (2:51)
10. "Somebody Else" (5:47)
11. "Loving Someone" (4:20)
12. "I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful yet So Unaware of It" (6:26)
13. "The Sound" (4:08)
14. "This Must Be My Dream (4:12)
15. "Paris" (4:53)
16. "Nana" (3:58)
17. "She Lays Down" (3:58)

I don't want your tropes, but I hate to think about them with somebody else:

• Alcoholic Parent: "She Lays Down" is about Matty's mother, who had issues with alcoholism and drug addiction while he was growing up.
• Ambiguously Bi: Discussed in "The Sound":
  "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.'"
• Arc Words: "Lost my head" shows up often in this album, notably "Lostmyhead".
• Lyrical Dissonance:
  • "UGH!" is a very catchy Scritti Politti-style song about a cocaine relapse. The video, which consists of bright lights and Matty's dancing, doesn't hurt, either.
  • "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.
  • "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?"
• Mind Screw: The "Somebody Else" video. It opens with a 3 minute homage to David Lynch's Rabbits, for starters. The main plot is also hallucinatory, with parts of the video being revealed to have been a fiction of Matty's mind.
• Sanity Slippage Song: Both 'The Ballad of Me and My Brain' and 'lostmyhead' are pretty straight examples, although the former is much more comedic than the latter.
• Take That!: From "Love Me":
  Caught up in fashion, Karcrashian panache/and a bag of bash for passion
  You got a beautiful face but got nothing to say (oh!)

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And she lays down on her bedroom floor
The chemicals that make her laugh
Don't seem to be working anymore
She tries her best, but it hurts her chest
And even though her sun is gone
She lights like a child nevertheless