The 1975 are an English pop rock band that has garnered widespread critical acclaim and multiple No. 1 albums in the U.K. The band’s singer, Matty Healy, recently gave a wide-ranging interview to Pitchfork where he talked about his music, three-year heroin addiction and getting in trouble on social media, most notably for his accusations of using the Black Lives Matter movement to promote his own music.
The band’s latest album, “Being Funny In A Foreign Language,” was released on Oct. 14.
“I’ve thought about every single word on this album for two years; I’d think about a tweet for 20 seconds,” he said. “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.”
Healy isn’t afraid to voice his opinion, and he notably told the site, “I f*cking hate Metallica. My worst band of all time.”
While not a Metallica fan, Healy talked about how he often uses weed, and said he is trying to wean himself from stronger strains as he prepares for an upcoming festival gig in Japan. A previous trip saw him cross paths with Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine. “The last person I got weed off in Japan was Dave Mustaine from Megadeth, and I don’t think he’s gonna be there,” Healy said. “And my plug in Japan died during C*VID. Rest in peace to, um, he was just in my phone as ‘Fat Japan Dealer,’ but he was a good guy.”
“It’s exhausting to be me,” the singer also said. “I’m an exhausting person to be around.” Healy is the son of British TV stars Denise Welch and Tim Healy, and said he grew up in the world of celebrity culture. “Not that my parents posture,” he said, “but by the time it came to being a performer and doing interviews, in my brain I was like, I will go insane if I have to do any of the posturing I’ve been witness to my whole life.”
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