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“By the time we got 23, 24, we had all these songs that we couldn’t let go. The band have existed for more than a decade, under names like Drive Like I Do and the Slowdownīut it took a long time to find their sound. “We couldn’t fucking get arrested and get a record deal when we were 17, 18,” says Healy. I live very much in the world of the 1975 and I’m not going to hurt anybody.” So it would probably be quite a scary idea for them. They don’t have fans that completely give them the benefit of the doubt.
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Their career isn’t based on fragility and vulnerability. “I think that’s because they don’t have the infrastructure. Healy is comfortable discussing his past with cocaine and heroin – but understands why his pop peers aren’t as open about their drug use. “The social group around me involves cocaine. “Ugh!” is about coming down from cocaine (“Hey boy stop pacing around the room/Using other people’s mirrors as a mirror for you.”) “I’m not lying: I’m from a white upper-middle-class background from Cheshire, and I’ve been in a band that’s been involved in everything from, like, big festivals to fashion over the past three years,” says Healy. It’s like a distillation of everything that preceded it, so that’s one of the things that I’m really proud of.” The poppier bits are poppier, the Eighties bits are Eighties-er. “Every criticism, every compliment, every conversation surrounding that first album has been included and been exaggerated,” says Healy, “whether it be the accusations of me being like I swallowed a dictionary. They wanted to double down on excess, and troll critics, with their new album You can’t doubt that I’m really passionate about what I really care about those and I’m invested in what I do.” You can tell me to stop licking stuff or thinking I’m the messiah. The singer knows what people say: “I think the is that I’m quite obnoxious, but quite sincere. I really do.”īut he’s not afraid to look what fans are saying about him online Do I just stick to what I know, or do I stand up for the things that I believe in and voice them and hopefully try to kind of empower people, or is it arrogant that I even think that I could empower young people, or should be doing? Should I shut the fuck up? Do you know what I mean? A lot of the time I kind of think that’s what I should do. I really struggle with that. There’s the whole ‘stay in your lane thing,’ I’m very aware that I’m a pop star and I’ve chosen my path. “A thing that I struggle with is that you have these followers. On Twitter, Healy has angered One Direction fans and admitted to using band merch money to buy weed. Watch the 1975 discuss “selfie culture” and facing up to fame: It was the social narration that Mike Skinner always had that was a massive influence.” “He was somebody writing about a pretty much middle-class scene of people who were within a world of the garage scene: They were the ones that wanted to stay inside and smoke weed.
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“The biggest lyrical influence for has always been Mike Skinner,” says Daniel of the English rapper better known as the Streets. Another big influence on Healy’s lyrics: the Streets