The 1975 - Notes on a Conditional Form (May 22, 2020) Album • Page 202

As someone who is gay and who spent my first two years of college living with evangelical Christians and (mostly) believing what they believed and listening to them tell me they’d pray for me and support me if I tried to change aka stop being gay, I both appreciate this song for trying to show the hypocrisy of people like that while also, like RyanRyan said, not feeling good at all when hearing those opening lines.

 

Yeah those lyrics definitely make me feel cringe as well but the discomfort it provokes seems intentional in context... similar to the way I felt when I heard if I believe you with the “asking you jeeeeeeeesus” part

 

Nothing on here comes close to “you do make me hard but she makes me weak” lol

 

Haha yeah and the line that follows the same melody with the smell of her hair reminds me of her feet

 

God damn, this song is beautiful and Phoebe Bridgers is just ahhhhh amazing

 

damn so this album is just gonna be perfect huh?

 

Looks like it.

 

...what is goin on with those lyrics Phoebe sings, cos if Matty wrote those they are creepy as all fuck

 

Has Matty ever come out and explicitly said that he's heavily influenced by Bon Iver? Because it just becomes more and more apparent. The sax parts literally sound like they were written/played by Mike Lewis.

Really really like this song

 

It’s more in line with Phoebe’s tweets lol

 

Tape Notes podcast and a few other long interviews about ABIIOR mention using similar techniques to Bon Iver on How To Draw, so if not explicitly stated, it's probably there.

 

Bon Iver was also brought up as an influence when they covered “By Your Side”.

The 1975 release Bon Iver-influenced cover of Sade’s “By Your Side” to raise money for War Child

 

They’ve cast such a wide net on this album already, with the variety of sounds they’re going for... I can’t even fathom what else we’re going to get out of what, the other 16 tracks we haven’t heard yet?

 

This might be my faves of the new songs. Absolutely beautiful.

 

Really loving everything so far from the album, but there’s two types of songs I am fixing for: 80s bops and jazzy tunes

 

Too Shy is that 80’s bop and I’m sure that soulful Temptations style song will scratch that soul/jazzy itch

 

I need another song like "Mine"

 

wow, Jesus Christ is a great song

 

I consider Matty a coward until he creates an entire jazz standard album. Mine was just too good.

 

Needs George, too. "Mine" has a lot of his dna on the track. Agreed tho, that would be great.

 

Do you mean from a production standpoint? Because I’m pretty sure I read somewhere that George didn’t record drums for that song

 

Pretty sure he didn't record the drums for Surrounded by Heads and Bodies

 

Is this accurate or sourced from anywhere? Found this on wikipedia.
"Tonight (I Wish I Was Your Boy)" (written by: M. Healy, Daniel, McDonald, Hann, Guendoline Viray, Rome Gomez, Hiroshi Sato)

 

If that's true its going to be my bop for sure

also if you recognize matty without recognizing george you're dead to me

 

The only song I know he didn't track drums on is Heads and Bodies, Matty did I believe.

I do mean from a production standpoint for sure, and the drums add a ton of vibe that I think contribute to the success of the song. The trumpet (which was Roy Hargrove) is another shining spot.

Idk, really just the whole atmosphere feels George to me. Also, I'm not sure who played piano, but those higher melodies feel more in line with Georges sense of melody based off of what I know are his contributions. This is all conjecture and opinion, I don't know for sure who played what where. Just thought worth mentioning I find Georges contribution to the track being so great just as important as Matty's.