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The 1975’s Matty Healy Turns On, Tunes In, and Logs Off

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  1. Melody Bot Aug 9, 2022
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    Ryan Dombal profiles Matty Healy for Pitchfork:

    Yes, Being Funny in a Foreign Language is quite funny. There’s a mom joke, a QAnon joke, a joke about a 10-year-old who is “obsessed with fat ass.” Taylor Swift, who got an early listen to the record, summed it up in three words: “It’s so funny.” Most of Healy’s friends are comics, and their approval of his work is particularly important to him: He played the album for musical comedian Bo Burnham, and was pleased when Burnham laughed at all the right times. Healy jokes he was furious when he heard Burnham’s 2021 song “That Funny Feeling,” which lists out society’s ills on the eve of destruction, a la “Love It If We Made It.” “He needs to stay in his lane a little bit,” he adds with a grin. “When he did that song, I was like, ‘You motherfucker.’”

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  2. Drew Beringer Aug 9, 2022
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    love it - great read


    Talking about his songwriting on Being Funny in relation to his dwindling online presence, Healy says, “I’ve thought about every single word on this album for two years; I’d think about a tweet for 20 seconds. My album’s gonna go out to, what, 10 million people, but a tweet could go out to a billion. The maths doesn’t work out. I’ll die on the hill of my records, but I won’t die on the hill of my tweets. It’s better to say good things less than to say average things more.”
     
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  3. brothemighty Aug 10, 2022
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    Bo Burnham and Matt Healy having a pretentious-off would capsize an entire continent