"settle down" is maybe my fave 1975 song but it was the most disappointing live (not that it was bad). the instrumental section didn't really hit. it kind of tempered the song instead of elevating it to a level of unparalleled ecstasy like the studio version does.
still remember my world crashing down around me at the "WELL NOW THAT YOU'VE GOT YOUR GUN" part of 'robbers' <3
― uberweiss, Thursday, 15 January 2015 20:26 (nine years ago) link
i was sitting in the 18+ section so avoided the kids for the most part. it's kind of weird to me that they have such a large teenage girl fanbase. has there been a lot of explicit 1D endorsement? i'm presuming that it's an internet thing because i don't feel like they're ever on the radio here - awkwardly sandwiched between being too pop for JJJ and too alternative for nova
― bae sremmurd (monotony), Thursday, 15 January 2015 22:14 (nine years ago) link
The girls seemed older than archetypal 1D fans ("14 year old" is probably misleading: it was more like a 14 - 17 spread).
I suspect a lot of it comes down to the fact that Matt Healy's entire schtick is of the redeemable bad boy.
Perhaps the biggest reaction (apart from "Chocolate") among this crowd was for "Girls", a lot of the audience seemed to like the idea that he was singing it to them personally.
And yeah I suspect it's been an internet / word of fingers and thumbs thing.
My boyfriend came along as he has been subjected to The 1975 constantly in the car since about the time of the release of the IV EP, and has grown to like them.
On the one hand he was moved to compliment the stylistic range on display following the guitar pyrotechnics at the end of "You", the goth minimalism of "Me", the Blue Nile balladry of "fallingforyou" and the piano/sax duet on "Is There Somebody Who Can Watch You".
But then after "She Way Out" and "Settle Down" and "Girls" had all played he said to me, "these guys definitely have a lot of songs that sound kinda the same but I like that sound so i don't mind."
― Tim F, Thursday, 15 January 2015 22:46 (nine years ago) link
bad boy he may be, but healy still seems like a grot - i was a long way from the stage but the whole night i kept thinking "taylor swift is really hitting THAT?"
― bae sremmurd (monotony), Thursday, 15 January 2015 23:22 (nine years ago) link
Healy isn't a bad boy, he's a fucking spoilt rich kid. A total poser.
The 1975 attract the 1D crowd because they're a glorified boy band, natch.
― You’re being too simplistic and you’re insulting my poor heart (Turrican), Thursday, 15 January 2015 23:48 (nine years ago) link
Not like the good old days of the Gallagher brothers, eh.
― Tim F, Thursday, 15 January 2015 23:56 (nine years ago) link
More like those lesser bands from the '80s that were all haircut and no substance.
― You’re being too simplistic and you’re insulting my poor heart (Turrican), Thursday, 15 January 2015 23:59 (nine years ago) link
The Britpop version of Matt Healy was Crispian Mills, fwiw.
― You’re being too simplistic and you’re insulting my poor heart (Turrican), Friday, 16 January 2015 00:02 (nine years ago) link
healy is hott taylor is otmfuiud
:D
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 16 January 2015 00:15 (nine years ago) link
Amazing tumblr about the 1975 & 1D: http://hereforthehair.tumblr.com/
― Nourry, Friday, 16 January 2015 00:40 (nine years ago) link
Turrican you're being sub-dog-latinesque
― Tim F, Friday, 16 January 2015 02:45 (nine years ago) link
i love haircut and hate substance
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Friday, 16 January 2015 05:01 (nine years ago) link
probably late but just discovered this great artful rmx of 'pressure'. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtAFNq4i9gc&feature=youtu.be
― Nourry, Sunday, 18 January 2015 15:21 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/X8Hx3cg.png
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Friday, 23 January 2015 19:52 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/BRnbmCn.png
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Friday, 23 January 2015 19:53 (nine years ago) link
holy fuck
― J0rdan S., Friday, 23 January 2015 20:10 (nine years ago) link
but it's not even meant to be coming out until "feb-apr 2016"!?!?!
― uberweiss, Friday, 23 January 2015 20:10 (nine years ago) link
idk
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Friday, 23 January 2015 20:11 (nine years ago) link
i could deal with a 2016 release if we get three or four eps this year
― prolego, Friday, 23 January 2015 20:47 (nine years ago) link
here's the video where matty talks about a 2016 release. also discusses how hats is one of the best albums ever and there's a d'angelo sample on one of the tracks(!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoxANj3ZSUg#t=8m30s
― prolego, Friday, 23 January 2015 20:59 (nine years ago) link
also discusses how hats is one of the best albums ever
UGH
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Friday, 23 January 2015 21:04 (nine years ago) link
<3 jessie ware for being the first person to tell them about the blue nile
― prolego, Friday, 23 January 2015 21:07 (nine years ago) link
my heart can't take this
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Friday, 23 January 2015 21:09 (nine years ago) link
ugh i just got to the hats part uuuugh
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Friday, 23 January 2015 21:16 (nine years ago) link
"i love your band, you must have heard the blue nile bc all of your melodic ideas sound influenced by the blue nile" - jessie ware/me
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Friday, 23 January 2015 21:19 (nine years ago) link
i like how matty's all what the fuck even was my existence before the blue nile arrived into my life. which is how we all feel.
― prolego, Friday, 23 January 2015 21:21 (nine years ago) link
fuckin SAME
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Friday, 23 January 2015 21:22 (nine years ago) link
the top comments underneath the youtube stream of hats right now are all versions of "matty brought me here i'm in love"
doing god's work
― prolego, Friday, 23 January 2015 21:31 (nine years ago) link
i got a little caught up in the whole lewis l'amour thing but then kinda realized you know if this guy could write songs and sing he would be the blue nile so why don't i pull out hats instead?
― Wu-Tang Clannad (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 23 January 2015 21:33 (nine years ago) link
are those records worth it?
― goole, Friday, 23 January 2015 22:04 (nine years ago) link
the lewis ones?yeah kinda, interesting vibe i guess, and the story is cool
the blue nile records are the apex of some kinda 80s mournful staring out a lux apartment ennui
― Wu-Tang Clannad (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 23 January 2015 22:12 (nine years ago) link
also recommended: escalator in an empty airport
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Saturday, 24 January 2015 00:07 (nine years ago) link
driving Tom Cruise's parents Porsche in Risky Business around the empty freeways around downtown LA at 4am
― Wu-Tang Clannad (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 24 January 2015 00:54 (nine years ago) link
crying with sandwiches tied to your feet in the absence of shoes
― deliberately clunky, needlessly arty, (contenderizer), Saturday, 24 January 2015 01:05 (nine years ago) link
I've never actually listened to Blue Nile before, checking out 'Hats' - dumb name for an album - but this is pretty great. The Lewis stuff didn't grab me, but Gigi Masin reissue, which I loved, was mining a similar vibe (much more ambient obv.)?
― MikoMcha, Saturday, 24 January 2015 09:11 (nine years ago) link
'pretty great'
― deej loaf (D-40), Saturday, 24 January 2015 15:29 (nine years ago) link
'never heard the apex of some kinda 80s mournful staring out a lux apartment ennui—just streamed on spotify though, decent!'
― deej loaf (D-40), Saturday, 24 January 2015 15:30 (nine years ago) link
whoa thanks for the Gigi Masin reference, Wind is terrific!
― droit au butt (Euler), Saturday, 24 January 2015 16:05 (nine years ago) link
lol deej u couldve pulled that trigger on a thousand godless vermin over the past week, why poor decent miko
― r|t|c, Saturday, 24 January 2015 16:36 (nine years ago) link
"Hats- dumb name for an album " is killing me in fairness
― r|t|c, Saturday, 24 January 2015 16:39 (nine years ago) link
tbh i think i confused miko with moka subconsciously
― deej loaf (D-40), Saturday, 24 January 2015 17:54 (nine years ago) link
― prolego, Friday, January 23, 2015 9:21 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
^^^^^
― Tim F, Saturday, 24 January 2015 22:10 (nine years ago) link
Some things about that interview:
1. My bf thought the interviewer was cute and did a good job (not sure how much the latter pronouncement was influenced by the former). This reminded me that the only people older than us at the last concert was a bear couple in their late forties holding hands and swaying.
2. I think Matt did a fairly good job of explaining their liminal / gateway status between boyband and serious project (which turrican was trying to lampoon upthread). I was worried that his definition of pop was going to veer rockist but I think he was thinking more broadly than his specific explanation necessarily comes across.
3. Would be fascinated to learn whether he wrote "fallingforyou" before hearing The Blue Nile for the first time or immediately afterwards.
― Tim F, Saturday, 24 January 2015 22:45 (nine years ago) link
tried watching some of that interview but tbrr i dont think i've ever made to the end of any sentence of his
on the plus side tho it did eventually lead me to find this EXCLUSIVE photo of matt and tay togeths omg
http://img1.bdbphotos.com/images/orig/i/s/isx2uh01onbiu20i.jpg?djet1p5k
― r|t|c, Saturday, 24 January 2015 23:24 (nine years ago) link
lol so exclusive I am 403 Forbidden.
― Tim F, Saturday, 24 January 2015 23:28 (nine years ago) link
bah
http://i.imgur.com/mGHQwtO.jpg
― r|t|c, Saturday, 24 January 2015 23:38 (nine years ago) link
looooooooooool otm
― Tim F, Saturday, 24 January 2015 23:45 (nine years ago) link
haha yes
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 25 January 2015 03:35 (nine years ago) link
Damn, gotta work on my hyperbole round here!
― MikoMcha, Sunday, 25 January 2015 22:03 (nine years ago) link
Srsly though Miko just block out a week of your life to listen to Hats and A Walk Across The Rooftops on earphones while walking through the city, preferably stepping across rain puddles.
― Tim F, Sunday, 25 January 2015 22:06 (nine years ago) link