the 1975

matt healey easily also my best interview ever

hahahaha that album title. already record of the year without even hearing the songs.

Haha it really does sound like "Steam"!

not really what I'd hoped they'd do (was also hoping for their Hats) but this sound does seem to work for them - his voice is a better fit for it

the album title's so ridiculous but I probably wouldn't have expected anything less from them

ugh this song is so good

I would expect that Matt Healey knows what he's doing in interviews. Given who his parents are, I would be completely surprised if he hadn't had some sort of advice or media training. I'm sure Matt Healey knows exactly what he's doing.

no i mean he's just really smart and has a lot of interesting things to say

i mean my interview with him was a 40 minute tangent on prince which doesn't seem to me a product of media training

Indeed, but I guess if you've learned the rules from media training, then you know how to break 'em. I totally believe he knows exactly what he's doing when he enters into an interview situation - I honestly don't think, given his background, that he would just ramble without purpose even though it may seem like he's doing exactly that.

In other words, I can't help but feel that every single thing about this band is calculated.

oh no a calculated band

they were a band for ten years before they put anything out as the 1975 so i also think that contributed to that sense of calculation, i mean lol they wanted their eps and albums to resemble self-contained movies.

but show me a band that is not somewhat calculated in their approach and i'll show you etc.

if she floats in water, she must be a witch.

Well, you might think that, Turrican, but I've done around five hours worth of interviews with him now, and spent around twice that in non-media situations. So I know him better than most journalists, but nowhere near as well as an actual friend would. And there is very little difference between the two people. The interviews sometimes have recurring lines – whose interviews don't – but I don't get any sense of calculation from him. I get a desire to be honest, which has the band's manager petrified a lot of the time.

Given his background, I wouldn't be surprised if he's spent his entire life being a genuine and nice person as a Machiavellian lifelong calculated bid for fame and fortune. Wake up sheeple.

I think I like this new song.

Indeed, but I guess if you've learned the rules from media training, then you know how to break 'em.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-tuAzsKGELpo/TrLSMikT6nI/AAAAAAAADZ8/H3DTLuBOyRE/s1600/JFK5.jpg

lol the dark arts learned at the knees of Denise Welch and Tim Healy

Matthew Healy was born on 8/4/1989 and so was presumably conceived during the period his father was filming A Kind of Living

http://i.ytimg.com/vi/T4jBzUCfq1Y/hqdefault.jpg

A Kind of Living doesn't even have its own wikipedia page

clearly the work of a master media manipulator

"My cunning media masterplan is that I will talk to you for two and a half hours about everything you ask, without once trying to steer the interview back to the thing that I am here to promote!" Damn, that's worthy of Goebbels.

Well, his cunning media masterplan is working if it's leading to journalists thinking they're his best mate. It's certainly delivering the arse-licking features, that's for sure. So yeah, I do 100% believe the guy knows exactly what he's doing.

It's the cunningly making good music so people will like his band that I find really offensive.

matty is my best friend how dare u

more like Turriconspiracytheory

I like the idea that making records writers like, then answering questions honestly and at length is a cunning media masterplan. As opposed to what every journalist hopes artists would do. Frankly, I'd have more respect for him if he made shit records and then refused to speak in interviews.

tim healy's media game is so strong that he's being upstaged by a jar of pickled eggs in that screencap

of course he knew exactly what he was doing

It's the cunningly making good music so people will like his band that I find really offensive.

― Tim F, Sunday, October 11, 2015 8:31 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Their music and their image also reek of calculation to the Nth degree. It's not so much that they're "cunningly making good music", more that the music and image of the band seem so carefully constructed and cynically crafted that it's impossible to separate the music from the target marketing. In a way, they're doing exactly what Coldplay were doing on X&Y, making the type of hollow superficial music that is designed to push the buttons of a particular demographic in a superficial and unchallenging way while dressing it up and packaging it as if it's something much more than that in the hope that other demographics will be swayed by it, and I include music journalists in that. Shrewd.

"Do you like One Direction? Then you'll love our haircuts and posing!"
"Did you like Joy Division? Then you'll love our black and white photos and our serious posing! We've heard of The Blue Nile too, so please take us seriously!"
"Are you a socially awkward teenager who sulks and writes bad poetry? Then you'll love the title of our new album!"
"Does life suck? Well, let the son of two jobbing UK TV entertainers explain to you just how much life can suck! I used to be massive cokehead, y'know. Yeah. I was in a position where I could afford that shit."

I like the idea that making records writers like, then answering questions honestly and at length is a cunning media masterplan. As opposed to what every journalist hopes artists would do.

Yes, and I'm sure Mr. Healy is completely well aware of the fact that this is what every journalist hopes artists would do, and that's ultimately why he's doing it.

These calculating bastards. Thanks for saving us from falling into their trap.

Do you realise that someone could make exactly the same argument about Chvrches if they felt like it? The only difference is that you like Chvrches.

man ppl get so mad when teenage girls like a rock band

yh srsly yr embarrassing yrself here turrers chum

just keep it simple - they've been given insider leg-ups all the way, their banal as fuck bourgie wilmslow upbringing has birthed wide-eyed teensy pop-rock with insane production values owing to their enviable connections. like it or not they are uk pop royalty now, and ilx is a bastion of pop monarchism, go figure

Yup, that too, although I refuse to be (and am in no way) embarrassed about my dislike of this band.

man ppl get so mad when teenage girls like a rock band

― adam, Monday, October 12, 2015 2:59 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Your words, not mine. Gender has nothing to do with it.

"Do you like tiresome back and forths about authenticity in music? Then you'll love this ILM thread!"

What connections and insider leg-ups have they benefitted from? I don't know enough about The 1975's rise but it doesn't seem like Healy's parents would have much sway in the music industry.

the band did have a 6 month residency on Loose Women tbf

SKOA Shey: So, let's start simple, what made you guys want to start out as a band, you all started recording together quite young didn't you?

Matt Healy: Yeah, well me personally, my Dad's friends were in quite big bands, my Dad used to knock about with Dire Straights and things like that in the 80's. So I knew a lot of that crowd when I was a kid, so I suppose that was the first thing that I wanted to do, we just started playing in punk bands when we were 13/14.

It is to his credit that he does not hide the nepotism, I guess

so mark knopfler twanged a few strings for him

tbf my dad lent Squeeze his gear once

also had crucial early exposure in the Macclesfield Express

http://www.macclesfield-express.co.uk/news/local-news/auf-weidersehen-hello-pop-idol-2543673

His renditions of The La's 'There She Goes' and the Oasis classic 'Don't Look Back in Anger' had the crowds heaving in the school's main hall.

I read

"enviable connections"

and I read

"son of two jobbing UK TV entertainers"

I thinkthose people were arguing the same point

Stretching the definition of nepotism there.

Given that they'd been together in one form or another for years before getting a deal, the nepotism didn't work all that well.

And, yes, they have an image. I thought pretty much all bands did. Has that become a bad thing now?

By the way, Turrican, could you tell us the truth about what happened on 9/11?

http://www.macclesfield-express.co.uk/news/local-news/auf-weidersehen-hello-pop-idol-2543673

― strictly dream-bait fit for moon-gazing (soref), Monday, 12 October 2015 18:14 Bookmark

jpeg should be album cover

the nine eleven-teen seventy five