The 1975 - Notes on a Conditional Form (May 22, 2020) Album • Page 118

We sleep on the phone together every night cos she lives on the main island and I live in Kagawa underneath. It’s our thing until we live together next year in March ha. See her every weekend but in the week we make do with FaceTime on the evenings, even if it’s relatively quiet. We sleep better that way!

 

Gonna write a long post for the sake of it because I want to get all this down, sorry!

Very good song, and it provokes the exact feelings for me that they've said it does for them; teenage/early 20s years, experiencing this type of music either alone or with friends rather than a club atmosphere, nighttime, a certain time of year etc. I have all these weird memories of mini raves my friends used to hold in old barns, flat parties at one of my oldest friends flats that he "bought off his stepdad for £1" (???) where 40 people would show up, all on ecstasy, and we'd know maybe 5 or 6 of those 40, this one weird night where some of the biggest names in the DnB scene at the time came down to my stupid little hometown and played a nightclub show for maybe 200 people tops when they'd be pulling crowds of 1000+ in London.

This band has such a hold on me purely for the nostalgia they are able to make me feel through their songs, to the point where certain songs allow me to pinpoint certain years past and even tap in to what I was feeling at that time in my life. It is just absolutely crazy to me that they are able to do that, I guess because they are a similar age and grew up in a similar time (and also similar class I guess, suburban middle class or "lower middle class" or whatever). And the fact I'm now in my 30s makes all these memories and emotions so damn painful lol, as life is so different now and everybody has moved on and moved away and I feel almost nothing now compared to what I did "back then". So then you're there alone in your bedroom listening to this song that provokes all these memories of friends that wouldn't even bother to acknowledge this band so you have no-one to talk to about them. Even if you were still in touch with them!

So yeah, these guys writing songs about their life growing up is everything to me because it literally feels like they are written for me lol. And I hate them for it!

 

does anyone else notice that sample of a voice in the backhalf of the song? George's production is so insane

 

He reuses vocal melodies a lot, probably unconsciously

 

I'm 23, but growing up in a small coastal town in Essex, I relate to this on such a big level. Our nearest town was Colchester, and if you wanted generic R&B and house music, you'd find it there, but I grew up listening to all of this kind of thing in cars and fields and house parties, high on MD or stoned and just having the best time with friends.

This song makes me so nostalgic for those times, even though they were less than a decade ago. You've hit the nail right on the head.

 

apparently they used a Roy Hargrove vocal on the track?

 

I'm guessing he might be the one doing the fragile state of mind vocal line in the background

anyone know what the high pitched vocals say?

I keep thinking its "come back me alrighttt"

 

anyone else notice the call back to I Always Wanna Die?

 

Listening now it's so gooooood
I love anything in the vein of Petrichor, Ballad, Head Cars, Me the most

 

Perfect production is insane at the end

 

Any good tidbits from interview?

 

Thanks man. From a small coastal town in North Devon myself! Very strange way of life in those types of town (a type of place that seems to be declining more and more each year these days) - we literally had ONE club for several years (we've still only got one, but it's a different one lmao) so house parties and fields etc. were all we really had apart from going to festivals like Reading in the summer.

 

So I listened to it. I didn't expect so many throwbacks to previously songs but it was a bopper, for sure!

 

Yeah, link to the Beats 1 interview?

 

The transition into the song at around the 0:15 has a similar effect for me, as the transition OUT of Petrichor, into those distant piano chords/footsteps... idk what it is, but both make me super emo every time... ughhh WHYYY lol

 

"Oh, don't be shy, I'm sorry but I always get this way sometimes
You lot just leave, I'll stay behind
I'm sorry 'bout my frail state of mind"

 

Didn’t know these lyrics would resonate with me quite so hard unffff

 

Is this what you’ve been asking for along?

as in the song lol

 

Haaa pretty much yep. So pleased with it! Just ahhhh. Yes! Words - how to use them?!

 

Just moan random autotuned notes!

 

I’m like Travis Scott falling off the stage in autotune rn

 

whole ‘nother level right here

 

When you repost a new "The 1975" track on your socials and nobody interacts with/likes it...

 

Yeah no one gives a fuck. I get chastised for it lol

 

wish i had verified lyrics for v3 cause it *sounds* devastating

"oh what's the vibe?
i wouldnt know i
i'm nobody
i'm better this time

you guys go do your thing
and i'll just leave (?)
don't wanna bore you
with my frail state of mind

oh wait or will i (?)
what's your biggest lie
i'm sure that you'll find
i haven't told a lie in quite some time

you know we'll leave if you keep lying
don't hide behind your frail state of mind"

big petrichor call back if true