The 1975 - A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships (November 30, 2018) Album • Page 180

464 days off heroin, we're killing it

 

i thought of you when i heard this song

 

The official lyric video on Spotify says "friends don't lie"

 

it's friends don't lie

because friends don't lie

 

“Give Yourself a Try” by The 1975 Review | Pitchfork

The Manchester pop-rock band the 1975 have made a career of skewering typical rock star clichés; even when frontman Matty Healy became an item of tabloid gossip, the band stayed true to form. Before recording their new album, A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships, Healy checked himself into rehab in Barbados: “I didn’t get dragged away to rehab,” he said later in an interview. “I didn’t wanna make a record as a fucking junkie. Who wants to hear that?” This self-chastising is at the core of their new single, “Give Yourself a Try,” a song that, when its scratchy layers of feedback and sarcasm are peeled away, is about growing up and escaping the trappings of fame—and it might be the 1975’s most realized and uplifting track yet.

“Give Yourself a Try” is constructed around a guitar line that feels overtly lifted from Joy Division’s “Disorder.” It’s not a direct sample, but an unmistakably interpolated melody that feels far from coincidental; it’s pretty brazen to repurpose a band canonically linked with depression into a song about making it through your twenties alive. Unlike most of the 1975’s recent work, this track leaves behind the synth-pop and ’80s bombast for something more raw and analog. They’ve ratcheted up the tempo with post-punk guitars and springy basslines, hurtling through its contemplative lyrics. “I found a grey hair in one of my zoots/Like context in a modern debate, I just took it out,” Healy shouts sardonically. “Give Yourself a Try” marks a new era for the 1975 discography, solidifying them as an ironic pop group masquerading as a sincere rock band—or, whenever they feel like it, vice versa.

 

Yup, this is gonna be the album that garners them the acclaim they should have had for the longest time.

 

I'd love to be wrong, but I'm not sure this is the song that takes them to new heights.

 

i love this band

 

so knowing about matty's rehab stint paints the hook "give yourself a try" in a new light for me. the reason i got so deep into drugs was two kind of opposing reasons, to either a. escape myself or b. reach a state of mind where i felt like my true self. obviously the latter isn't actually my true self. so i see the phrase "give yourself a try" as like, a declaration of sobriety. just live with yourself and give being yourself an honest chance instead of using drugs to escape and hide from who you really are

 

fuck dude... i feel this so much

 

zachary cole smith of diiv has put it better than ive ever heard in a song


"got so high i finally felt like myself"

 

That Joy Division comparison is so obvious I can’t believe I didn’t hear that before

 

This is interesting.

 

how dumb the guitar is good

 

Yeah I'm gonna say "no" to that theory

 

I’d just like to point out that when the song came out, I said that if you took out the left earphone, the song lost most of its energy

 

Oh right THIS is why I hate fandom

 

Seriously I hope that’s the dumbest thing I read all day

 

Hey guys I think that Matty actually wants us to listen to the song with no earbuds in so we can appreciate the sounds of nature and step away from technology

 

But seriously, most, if not all, songs have the same component. Certain instruments pr vocals are only heard through the left or right speaker. Same thing in Love Me. The little guitar riff keeps alternating between speakers at one point. Doesnt mean the band wants us to hear the riff only every other three seconds

 

So it is a social experiment after all

 

I'd lean more towards this, but you do you ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Lol yup definitely relevant to my post

 

It is. There's worse types of fans in the grand scheme of things than passionate ones who try to dig deep into the meaning of your art.