The 1975 - Being Funny in a Foreign Language (Oct 14, 2022) Album • Page 120

Cool. I do.

 

Listening to that every time is truly wild. I listened once and never will again.

 

Notes also isn’t an album I listen to front to back so there’s barely a chance for me to listen to Greta

 

Me, but with The Dangerous Summer - Prologue (Mother Nature)

 

It’s going to hold up extremely well 20 years from now. Guaranteed.

 

Notes has a couple of my top songs from them and was my favorite but this has taken over, no filler, Human too has grown on me so now I like every song, even the lyrics that aren’t complex still hit hard (Oh Caroline+All I Need to Hear). Favorite record at least of the decade so far

 

“This’ll get bigger if you know what I mean.”

 

Greta’s message is good and important I just don’t want to hear that every time I listen to a record.

 

And I’m just saying I think overall it’s a very smart and bold move that’s absolutely going to pay off in the long run, and matty hasn’t been shy about his ambition toward cementing a legacy and I think using Greta’s speech to open their album that came out in 2020 will be looked back on in a very positive light when the world is inevitably crumbling due to climate inaction in 20 years

 

Greta's message is kinda like that movie The Whale... incredibly powerful and something that I really appreciated in the moment, but not something I want to return to a lot because it requires a specific mindset

Would've been an incredible 7-inch double single The 1975/People

 

It's official, About You, is now my favorite The 1975 song.

that is all.

 

this album just keeps growing on me. genuinely might end up being my second favourite of theirs.

 

I’m kind of plateauing with the album so far, but that is absolutely NOT going to be the case once I hear this beast live

 

It’s been out barely over a week so of course I still love it and listen to it all day every day

 

I haven’t given it enough attention yet but I like from it so far I REALLY like.

This band is kinda perfect to me.

 

This gave me a chuckle

 

I feel like if you never struggled with drugs or booze, you probably won't understand that song until someone points it out to you.

but that's kinda hilarious

 

I feel like you have to not know anything about Matty to not know that. At the very least bing it with google before you get the tattoo.

 

Who cares. I hear artists say all the time they know lyrics can take on meaning for fans outside of what they originally intended.

 

Yeah I mean the lyrics can mean whatever they want to the person that got them. I just don’t know how as a fan of the band you didn’t understand what Matty was referencing.

 

Some fans don't pay a ton of attention to what lyrics mean outside of surface level stuff. I'm one. Half the time I don't have a clue what lyrics are saying as a whole and just catch phrases here and there. Now, I'm also not getting lyrics tattooed on me, and if I ever was to, I probably would do some deep dive into a song just to make sure I knew what I was going to representing on my body.

 

Jumping in a few days later to say the Greta intro to Notes works for me in a way that's a lil more nuanced than a lecture. The political urgency of that track into the chaotic urgency of "People" makes for a compelling little stage-setting prologue, especially followed by an instrumental track into "Frail State of Mind." The album opens with a blunt look at the present landscape, and then follows Matty in an emotional journey against that backdrop, which ends with his dad's song and the love letter to his bandmates.

The whole thing honestly flows impeccably. I haven't listened to it in full since 2020, and the percentage of the tracks I revisit in isolation is lower than the rest, but I can make a case for it being my second or third favorite of their five albums. (Not sure yet where this new one's gonna settle in.)

 

Loving the Notes love