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Matt about self-acceptance, a fearful period, George getting his confidence back, Love Me, not having one distinct sound, writing lyrics. More video's: http:...

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Matt Healy, singer in The 1975, is a proper rockstar. He looks ridiculous, says funny stuff and is convinced the world “needs” all 75 mins of his band’s new album. Dan Stubbs meets him in New York. “Derrrrrr derrrr derrrr derrrr derrrr!” The 1975 frontman Matt Healy is thrashing an air guitar, posing for pictures by a brick wall in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District sporting a leather jacket, skinny jeans and a sculptural cascade of curly hair. “The Strokes! New York! Indie rock forever!” the 26-year-old shouts. He’s taking the piss. For Healy and his bandmates, indie rock is passé. “It’s just done,” he says later. “Rock’n’roll is very cyclical, I know that, but we’re so far past it now. And being perceived as retrogressive is my biggest fear.” The 1975 have a mantra for their music: create as you consume. It’s about how we all listen to a multitude of different things and how they want to be the band that ticks every single one of your boxes. “I want to be representative of this generation,” says Healy. “The non-linear consumption of music everybody picks from all over the place… I just want to be truly modern.” Healy and his bandmates – reserved guitarist Adam Hann, gregarious drummer George Daniel and drily witty bassist Ross MacDonald – are in the middle of their first NME cover shoot. They’ve been in New York for a few days and judging by the bright green kale smoothies they’re slurping, they’re getting into the way of life. Healy says the smoothie tastes like “pond bananas” but ploughs on anyway, having got today off to a skewwhiff start by smoking “the wrong type of weed”. Ten minutes after striking their best indie rock poses in the shadow of the zig-zagging fire escape, the four are being snapped walking down a cobbled backstreet. “I’m Bob Dylan! Dylan and his three mates!” shouts Healy. He’s still taking the piss. Then a woman walks past with a cute French bulldog, the entire band zip over to pet it and New York’s musical icons are safe again for the time being. Taking the piss is something The 1975 are very good at, because you can never really tell if they’re being serious or not. They recently tricked their fanbase into thinking they’d split after circulating a fanzine-like image containing a comic strip, a typed statement and an image of two people reading a suspiciously familiar magazine titled ‘Nihilistic Music Expression’, front-page headline: “Is this the end for The 1975?” It was just a jape. A single soon followed, ‘Love Me’, which pokes fun at the group’s own rockstar pretensions, the generation’s obsession with social media (George wields a giant selfie stick) and their contemporaries (Matt licks a cardboard cutout of Harry Styles in the video). It’s also funky as hell, channelling David Bowie’s ‘Fame’ and Talking Heads’ ‘Burning Down The House’ to irresistible effect. It sits on an album, due for release on February 26, that becomes weirder the …Continue reading »

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