“God bless Taylor Swift… But I couldn’t live that life. I couldn’t be that famous.” FameTaylor SwiftFandomsStalkersSwiftiesMentall IllnessChronically OnlineParasocial Relationships Author:Matty Healy
“I genuinely believe the empowerment of young women is the most important thing in the world and will lead to the destruction of injustice.” WomenInjusticeWomen EmpowermentWomen S RightsGender Equality Author:Matty Healy
“We need to be looking after young men a bit better before we start demonising them.” MenMental HealthVulnerabilityMasculinityToxic MasculinityCancel CultureGen ZFragile MasculinityDemonization Author:Matty Healy
“The problem with Gen Z is that they’ve set up this moral standard that they can’t even live up to! They’re starting to realise that as they’re getting into their mid-20s. When you’re an idealistic 18 or 19-year-old, sure! But you will make mistakes, you will hurt people, you will do things that some people will perceive as rotten. It’s this standard that I’m trying to break down. I’m just a bloke, so are you. No one’s fooling anybody.” MoralsIdealismGen ZGeneration ZMoral StandardsThe 1975 Author:Matty Healy
“My life is defined by a desire to be outward followed by a fear of being seen.” Self EsteemSelf AwarenessSocial AnxietySelf SabotageExtrovertOutward Author:Matty Healy
“I read a lot, too, though I can’t figure out if I’m reading all these books because I want to be clever enough to deal with everything, or whether I’m reading them for enjoyment.” ReadingEducationBooksBook ReadingSelf EducationBookwormBook CollectingBook Collector Author:Matty Healy
“I’m buying a lot of books and then putting them in a nice order and then saying, I’m going to read that tomorrow. And then I’m going to read that one after it.” ReadingBooksBooks ReadingBook CollectingBookworm ProblemsTbrDnf Author:Matty Healy
“I’m not going to be specific, but I had some early sexual experiences that, as I got older, were really, really difficult to deal with. It wasn’t to do with anything that happened in my family or at home, it was these… different things that happened. So my mental health had come through the negotiation of sex as a teenager and a young man, and romantic relationships.” RelationshipsChildhoodGayMental HealthTraumaTherapyTrauma SurvivorsSexual Trauma Author:Matty Healy
“You remember your pre-internet brain, and you remember doing those things, but you don’t really remember how it felt. You don’t really remember how time felt. There’s that guy who wrote that book, I can’t remember what it’s called, fuckin’ genius guy. But he’s saying that the world has always been informed by people who read books, and not necessarily academically, but the concept of a narrative is very important to people’s lives. Those people grew up with not necessarily a sense of purpose, but a sense that your life is leading somewhere. That’s the way I relate to my music, because I see The 1975 as this story. But as we go into the future, the world is gonna start being informed by people who didn’t grow up with that narrative — who grew up with more of a sense of immediacy. And we start to feel more like a unit amongst other units, and everything becomes a lot more compartmentalized. So when we talk about Twitter, we know that we were happy before, but we can’t remember how it felt, so we won’t take the risk to leave it. The generation after us now, they don’t have that weird nostalgia or sense that something’s wrong: ‘I didn’t used to do this. I didn’t used to need this.” BrainInternetDigital AgeOnline CommunicationGen ZInternet AddictionGeneration ZChronically Online Author:Matty Healy
“Does babygirl mean camp?” LanguageGayFunny QuotesLgbtqiaSlangMillenialsGay LifeCampGay StereotypesBabygirl Author:Matty Healy
“When I was 17, all the cultural ideas that I was sold were about the future. Being 17 now must be terrifying. You must look at the state of the economy and the world and you don’t know if there’s going to be a future. If I was 17 now and I was having to deal with the things that young people are expected to deal with — you need to be informed on racial issues, how economies work, all this stuff … When I was 17, I was getting stoned, and there was no one shouting at me on the internet that I wasn’t doing my part. It felt like the apocalypse anyway, because of some girl or a lack of weed or something like that. It wasn’t like trying to understand these huge ideas and being expected to have this pre-signed-off opinion on anything.” Mental HealthSocial MediaDigital AgeIndependent ThinkingLiberal EducationMillenialsGen Z Author:Matty Healy
“I’ve got too much history of thinking about how you present yourself. I think that I get known for being a motormouth, but when introspection is provoked, I can’t help but make it a bit of therapy.” Self AwarenessTherapySpeakingAdhdSelf AwareMotormouth Author:Matty Healy
“You see, I’d created this character for myself. This self-deprecating Pied Piper of a young guy. Then I became that.” ActingSelf AwarenessMasculinitySelf SabotageMethod ActingPied Piper Author:Matty Healy
“...the hopelessly romantic notion that two people can meet and instantly fall in love, an escape story where love is the highest law and conquers all against the odds. Characters like Bonnie and Clyde always appealed to me as a teenager - couples so intoxicated with one another that they fear nothing in the pursuit of the realization of each other, actions fueled by blind unconditional love.” The 1975 Author:Matty Healy
“The maintenance of my life, my relationship with my mum, my brother, all my close relationships, are mediated by how much Wi-Fi I have. If you got rid of everybody’s phones, everybody’s relationships would deteriorate. There’s this idea that we look down on any kind of discourse that we have online, that it’s this inauthentic version of communication, when actually it’s the primary driver of our relationships.” RelationshipsCommunicationInternetPhonesMillennialsOnline CommunicationGen Z Author:Matty Healy