the matty vault

a collection of quotes and things from matty healy and the 1975. this is a fan account.

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"Ok, I got a couple of things I want to say. Number one: social media teaches us that we're nothing more than a collection of preformed weaknesses and adopted pathologies to be mined for sympathy from total strangers, but this isn't true. Ex...exclamation mark. The best place to look for affirmation and love is from your in-person friends and family. Thank you. From the people around you. Even here tonight, we're all surrounded by people we have a mutual attachment with. And I'm really thankful for that. Thank you. Thank you. Number two: With all the time we can—no—with all...with all the time we do spend on social media you start to feel like you're alone, even when you're surrounded by other people. Everyone becomes so focused on how to document their specific experience that they forget to have an actual experience in the first place. Facts. Whatever selfie you can manage to take becomes the memory you have, but tonight I want to try a different kind of memory. With your permission, I want you to turn to the person next to you and introduce yourself. This is fucking real life right now. Ok, that's enough. Don't do that. It's cringe. It's cringe-filled. Number three: I think if we spend enough time online reading infographics about and looking at people's perfectly edited photos that you can start to believe that there's no such thing as a negative emotion, and that we're somehow to exist in an endless state of valid, affirmed, paid attention to, liked, that every disagreement we have is somehow a form of literal violence against us. But if we spend out entire lives doing nothing but avoiding plan and conflict, then we're dooming ourselves and our entire lives alone. Every relationship is bound to have rough patches, the willingness to endure them comes from understanding that pain and suffering are completely unavoidable. The only thing we can do is build resilience to endure the inveitable.

Fuckin' hell. Something like that. Thank you very much for your time, ladies and gentlemen." — Matty Healy's speech during Still...At Their Very Best at the Golden 1 Center in Sacramento, CA (9/26/23)

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Taking a little break from posting now until the end of September. I'm going to their show on Thursday, September 28 and I don't want photos, spoilers, or speculation ruining it for me. Kbye.

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Podcasts About The 1975

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July 2, 2023 (Finsbury Park, London)

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"When listening back through the album now in 2023, there is nothing really utterly groundbreaking. Everyone blends genres now; everyone tries to give nods in their lyrics to whatever is happening culturally and politically at the time. Still, The 1975 conjures nostalgia. It’s why, as problematic as Healy can be at times, it’s difficult for fans to detach themselves from a band that was so integral to their personal journey. It’s not so much about why The 1975 were able to embed themselves into the DNAs of teens and 20-somethings everywhere 10 years ago. Instead, it’s about when they did it. Timing for this band was integral to their success; a perfect mixture of word-of-mouth social media—the need for a band that is the right amount of reckless—and teens that wanted someone to put lyrics to their feelings and experiences." — Kelsey Barnes, "Sex, Chocolate, Coming of Age and The 1975 at 10" (9/2/23)

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"The 1975 had a unique way of creating music that was both fun and introspective, blurring the line between what a pop/rock song could be. We hear angst, apathy, and acceptance all in one shimmering track. A song like “Pressure,” a song that juxtaposes peppy and upbeat ‘80s-influenced sonics with lyrics about struggling with drug dependency, is the prime example of the way The 1975 creates music that dives into their own psyche while keeping listeners engrossed." — Kelsey Barnes, "Sex, Chocolate, Coming of Age and The 1975 at 10" (9/2/23)

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"One of the reasons why The 1975’s self-titled debut might be considered their magnum opus is because every song is an intentional selection to best represent who they are as a band. When approaching the tracklist for the album, the four members aimed to strike listeners hard with every song rather than boast a few hit singles and then a bunch of filler tracks there for the sake of checking certain boxes or appeasing different audiences. Even the album’s interludes “An Encounter” and “12” embody the band’s desire to “soundtrack” their lives, something that they cited John Hughes as being an influence for when crafting and curating the record and their overall aesthetics." — Kelsey Barnes, "Sex, Chocolate, Coming of Age and The 1975 at 10" (9/2/23)

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June 11, 2017 (Northside Festival)

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"For younger listeners struggling to connect with some of the more surface-level songs that were popular on mainstream radio, The 1975 provided the sonic palette for fans to lean into big emotions and deeper themes in a safe and accessible way." — Kelsey Barnes, "Sex, Chocolate, Coming of Age and The 1975 at 10" (9/2/23)

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"Even if a 15-year-old girl had never smoked weed before, “Chocolate,” which serves as a euphemism for the drug, speaks to the universal feeling all small-town bored kids face of the desire to get out." — Kelsey Barnes, "Sex, Chocolate, Coming of Age and The 1975 at 10" (9/2/23)

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"With that in mind, the band embraced a mentality of “no rules,” capitalizing on whatever genres they felt like—evidenced in the saturated synths on “M.O.N.E.Y.” and “Menswear” and even a sax solo on “Heart Out.” — Kelsey Barnes, "Sex, Chocolate, Coming of Age and The 1975 at 10" (9/2/23)

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"The 1975 struck a chord with their fans at the exact time they needed them. Over 16 tracks, the album charts their own time growing up, touching on everything from feeling uncomfortable in their skin, mental health, and sex and desire. All of these experiences and feelings are what lead singer Matty Healy describes as “the apocalypse”—a period of adolescence when everything that happens feels very life-and-death or black-and-white." — Kelsey Barnes, "Sex, Chocolate, Coming of Age and The 1975 at 10" (9/2/23)

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Happy first birthday to 'I'm in Love With You'. The single was released on this day in 2022.

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"He managed to close the distance between himself and his fans enough by using social media that not only is he a type of guy his fans might know, he feels like he is someone they know. The guys in the 1975 weren’t the first to use social media to make their fans feel like a part of the world they live in – the concept of parasociality isn’t that new – but they did it well from the beginning. Over the years it’s become obvious that centering their fans in the way that built their early success is something Healy flips between being grateful for and resenting, but it’s not something they can take back. It’s Pandora’s box. It’s selling your soul to the devil."

— Miranda Reinert for Stereogum, “The 1975 Turns 10” (8/31/23)

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"At the center of that tough sell has always sat Matty. His persona was defined at the start. It was sort of a bad-boy character: charming and charismatic but messy and inevitably disappointing. He does drugs and sleeps with girls who have boyfriends. He wins the ill-fated hearts of 17-year-olds and nearly throws up in a woman’s mouth at a wedding. Like many shitty dudes before and after him, though, he’s funny and has these big, affectionate friendships that can convince anybody he’s probably not that bad. He gets away with lyrics that verge on slut shaming and misogynistic and edgy because he’s softened by the context built around him. The genius of the early Matty Healy persona is that it was always rooted in the feeling of faux-closeness in a way that’s commonplace in social media-driven music marketing today, but was just ramping up 10 years ago." — Miranda Reinert for Stereogum, “The 1975 Turns 10” (8/31/23)

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"Fandom is often as alienating as it is unifying and the extra-musical aspects are why. Those insisting on being told in purely objective terms why a band is inspiring undying devotion will never get it. The ask with the 1975 is to buy into the marketing hype, buy into Matty Healy, and buy into the friendship. The why of the first 1975 album is really in all of those things as much as it’s in believing the lyrics are truly impressive — though I think detractors have long gotten lost in the belief that it’s all earnest genius worship and no humor — and it can be a tough sell."

— Miranda Reinert for Stereogum, “The 1975 Turns 10” (8/31/23)

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"Fandom is as much about loving the song as it is having an opinion on which version is best and knowing the timelines of the band. It’s about feeling more attached to the tracks on the EPs that show up on the Deluxe Edition than the album tracks. It’s about knowing how long the silence between “You” and the hidden track “Milk” is. It’s about being a band with details like that built in." — Miranda Reinert for Stereogum, “The 1975 Turns 10” (8/31/23)