Their albums include almost everything but straight rock. Really, The 1975 only qualifies as a rock band in the sense that it is a commercially successful group of four men who play instruments, which makes them an endangered species in 2018. As I grow as an artist, I just want to be sincere.” It’s difficult because everything’s so postmodern and self-referential and hyperaware of everything being bullshit. I’m so aware of the vocabulary of rock’n’roll, and what’s tired.

“I do the Jim Morrison thing a bit,” he says, “but I know that you know that I know that this isn’t real. Onstage, he deconstructs his own performance as he goes along, like a Father John Misty for teenagers. Matty Healy is a rock star for a generation that’s too clued-in to believe in rock stars. “The manicness seems to resonate with people, because they know how it feels to be like…” He struggles to sum up the generational condition. Healy agrees that his radical honesty about his own anxiety might be the key to the fervor of The 1975’s fan base. “That’s why I was a good drug addict, because it used to stop me being like that.” This earnest craving to be understood creates a sense of intimacy disproportionate to the fact that we’ve only just met.

He has the helter-skelter intelligence of an autodidact, name-dropping Debord and Dostoevsky, and accidentally inventing words like “dissolvement.” His brain swerves between extremes of self-belief and self-doubt, so it’s hard to keep up with all the qualifications, revisions, digressions and apologies as he tries to crystallize what he means. The 1975: Photos From the Billboard Cover Shoot Because I knew that one more time and that’s it.” “The fact that I knew I was building on something that wasn’t destroying made me feel really strong. “People had started to lose respect for me, but not an irredeemable amount,” he says, running his hands through his scruffy, half-peroxided hair. The singer spent seven weeks at a rehab clinic in Barbados in November and December and has been clean since then. Healy says his habit was the first time a secret ever came between them. So I went downstairs and told George I should go to rehab.” Daniel is the band’s production whiz and Healy’s closest friend they live virtually next door to each other in east London. “I realized that was absolute fucking bullshit.

If you want songs, we’re just going to have to get on with it.” The next morning, he woke up mortified. Healy winces and inhales a Marlboro Light as he paraphrases what he said: “Listen, everyone has to get onboard because I’m the fucking main deal.

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