Matty Healy recently explained why The 1975 were despised when they first formed, and stated that most heavy music is “f***ing lame.”
Matt Healy opens up on matter
During an interview on the Doom Scroll podcast, Healy revealed why The 1975 were “hated” by some listeners when the band first emerged. He also claimed that they were a “band” and that every band that “got signed over us was a band that was essentially doing an impression of the Arctic Monkeys.”
“So what they were saying is, a band has to be from an economically deprived place in order to have authenticity. It needs to be kind of gritty. It needs to reference, at the time, the kind of the aesthetics of post punk.”
“So, like, all of your Joy Division, industrialization, Thatcherism, brutalism, all those kinds of things. And we just didn’t adhere to any of that…We were hated for essentially being a band that was the opposite of heavy.”
Healy also continued and explained why he considered heavy music to be “f***ing lame” and why The 1975 could easily make heavy music but chooses not to:
“For me… unless you’re Glassjaw, Converge, Refused, or further than that, heavy is fucking lame. So the reason we’re not heavy – and we can do heavy all day long – but we’re not because it wasn’t new. We wanted to be something quite new.”
After Taylor Swift and Joe Alwyn broke up, she seemingly started dating Matty Healy. However, they’ve both moved on but it seems that the relationship has had a lasting impact on Matty. He also said:
“Last year I became a way more well-known public figure for loads of different reasons. The only reason that I was interested in is kind of like, what I was doing. So I think that a lot of artists, they become very interested in their lore, or they become interested in the things that have happened outside of their art that people know about, and they want to address that. And fair enough, do you know what I mean?”
