The 1975 - A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships (November 30, 2018) Album • Page 386

also anyone talking about a lack of “proper songs” might wanna consider diversifying their musical intake

 

Lyrics.

 

I came here to say this. I’ll be honest... I saw way too much of myself in that track and it really made me reflect. I spent a lot of my time in high school and early college, and even now to an extent, retreating into spending time online due to social anxiety and other factors in my life. It was my escape, along with other things... and I think I never really stopped along the way to realize what I lost. I look back on my high school years and I truthfully spent a lot of that time miserable and lonely while a lot of people were making memories they’ll have for the rest of their lives.

Sorry, this just got too real haha... but honestly this is what great art should do I think, make you really think like this.

 

god, i am obsessed with Give Yourself A Try

 

Is anyone else reading into I Like America's lyrics as a statement and critique on the shooting of unarmed black people in America or is that just me and my mate?

edit: or a statement piece on the US gun laws in general?

 

The lyrics to Petrichor remind me of Everybody’s Free.

Any guesses why it’s called Petrichor other than it rhymes?

 

Wish I could leave work to listen again

 

WHAT THE FUCK IS I ALWAYS WANNA DIE. i was not ready for this wow.

 

I'm flying to New Zealand from the UK in a few weeks. I'm going to try and hold out and have my first listen to this during the flight with some epic views!

 

Hot take - I'm not sure how this band releasing Give Yourself A Try as a first single made a lick of sense. It's not The 1975's style to let their first single dictate the tone of the whole album but after listening to the full album multiple times..it really doesn't fit for me and feel it would have been a better one-off single.

 

What would you say about Love Me? I feel like GYAT serves practically the same purpose.

 

I’m going to go against the grain and say that “Be My Mistake” is one of my favorite moments on the album. Throughout the album, we hear the band trying new things - new production styles, new “genres”, “new” instruments and effects. The album is a navigation through a digital world where everyone takes pictures of their salads and the President and Kanye West tweet at each other. Everyone is quick to write someone off for expressing themselves because now we have a giant platform for people to post on and make themselves feel important and like their opinion actually matters. I can’t imagine what it’s like to put your heart and soul into songs on an album, and have people take a listen or two and then dismiss it. It’s like stripping down naked in front of strangers on an hourly basis and have them laugh at you or talk about how this or that body part is ugly or needs to change.

“Be My Mistake” is the one moment on the album where we take a step back from tackling this world and navigating how to grow inside of it. It’s the one moment where I feel like we actually hear *Matty*, and not just his reaction to the world around him. We just hear him vent about missing someone while sleeping with someone else, an experience everyone goes through at some point. It feels like the most human moment on the album, just stripped down to chords and words and a profession of love, and lack thereof, from a man so used to struggling with scarier demons.

It’s just a slow bleed set to soft chords, and that’s what I’m here for.

 

Bad person to ask, because I feel the same about Love Me haha. I'm also a big fan of strong openers and while Love Me is definitely stronger I feel like GYAT just..isn't at all.

GYAT just never resonated with me as a single and even less so in the context of the album.

Love Me was less decisive but a similar sentiment. I'm slightly biased though because the Bowie influence on Love Me makes me adore the song.

100% agree - Once I realized and accepted this album was going to be a bit more experimental and dialed back..the quicker I loved this song.

I enjoyed my second listen MUCH more than my first..Though I loved it instantly...it found it's footing with me the second time around..which is how almost every album I love has seemed lately..

 

Yeah, I've listened more than once or twice and enough to know I don't need, or enjoy, more songs about meaningless sex with what's kinda implied are fans. That subject matter can be, and is, personal, but I sure don't like it. I'm more than ready to leave those songs in the 2000s.

 

JFC the production on this is incredible.

 

What's sticking out to me about BMM is that I don't relate to really anything that's going on with the song lyrically, and it doesn't give me the cinematic/atmospheric quality I expect from them even in their most direct of songs

 

I agree with a lot of what you said, about it being a more personal moment, but I disagree with this statement cause I definitely don’t think everyone experiences sleeping with fans when they’re lonely, I’m gonna go out on a limb and say most of us here don’t have “fans” haha. The lyrical content just kinda takes me out of the song. I wish the music had been used with something else, cause it’s really beautiful, melody and everything. I just can’t relate to it at all and never will.

 

Also every time I see the song title I think of Relient K’s song lmao

 

It's a nice song until you think too specifically about what it's actually about, and then it gets kind of icky. We already know Matty isn't a perfect human, doesn't mean I need to ruminate on his mistakes. Pun intended.

 

Love Me might seem like a sonically “stronger” opener because of the swagger and excess on display, but that’s not what ABI requires for an opener.

The constant looping guitar riff, the wall of sound, the shifting grooves from Ross, all play into setting sonic pallate for the record, but it’s definitely not bombastic in the traditional sense of the word.

It’s most definitely an important part of the record. Plus, it’s going to be a barn burner live!

 

I wasn’t talking about this song in particular in regards to people dismissing a song based on a few listens. Just something every band deals with every song all of the time - plenty of people dismissing the entire album after one or two listens.

I didn’t really get the implication that it’s fans, at least intrinsically. Just sleeping with people while having feelings for someone else, just because he’s lonely. Maybe it’s because I relate to it more at this point in my life.

They aren’t trying to reinvent the wheel by any means with the song and that’s okay, sometimes you just make something because you feel it and need to get it out.

 

"She bought me those jeans, the ones you like" and "I don't want to hug" are both lyrics that feel like they're coming from a position of power.

 

My ex bought me a dress that the current guy I’m seeing likes. Sometimes I have sex with a person and don’t want intimacy after. Really don’t understand what the big deal is.

 

I do like Be My Mistake, but I do understand why the lyrics are off-putting to some.