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[tayfabe75]

"One of the things that I always want people to be aware of is that if I'm talking with a kind of sense of dissatisfaction about the behavior, I'm normally talking about me. So when I say, 'You're so conceited, I said I love you', it doesn't necessarily mean that I'm saying that. You know, it could be them saying, 'You're so conceited, I said I love you. What does it matter if I lie to you?' I don't know. I mean, that wasn't answering your question at all, I'm kind of trying to dodge it."

January 19, 2016: Matty clarifies that, sometimes, when he uses the word 'you', he's actually referring to himself. (source)

[tayfabe75]

"I wrote that chorus four years ago and I wrote the verses three or four months ago. Now that's not to say that 'The Sound' is like an old song, but I mean that melody has been knocking around for like, four years, so I think that it kind of… because it was stuck in my head so long we had to get it out there."

January 19, 2016: Matty discusses 'The Sound' and how the chorus predates the verses. (source)

[tayfabe75]

"The whole point of this record was that I… it goes back to identity, and it goes back to… there's lots of stuff on this record, songs like 'Change of Heart' and stuff, where I'm answering questions from the first album and I'm making references to the first album and I'm talking about being wiser now and more naive then. And there's this back and forth between the album that preceded this album and this album, that our fans will really, really understand the subtext of. 'The Sound' is kind of like a parody of a 1975 song. That's kind of what I wanted it to be. I wanted it to be everything. The swallowing the dictionary thing- If I get prided on being self-aware, then I have to be self-aware, and I understand that it can come across as being a bit wanky, I'm not stupid, do you know what I mean? So that's what I'm kind of saying. But those are also some of my best lyrics, so I'm kind of taking my identity seriously and playing with it at the same time."

January 19, 2016: While discussing his band's aesthetic, Matty is asked about his expansive vocabulary. (source)

[dailyzachwoods]

youtube(.)com/watch?v=z0JmAF_6jlg HIS EYES IN THIS SHIRT

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