.jiatolentino explores the evolving persona of the 1975 frontman Matty Healy, his band’s most recent album, and the rumors of a relationship with Taylor Swift.
In 2014, amid the early rush of fame and steady touring, Healy began smoking heroin, the only substance he found that could pull him down from the stratosphere. It was a secret, for a while; then the band staged an intervention. Healy resisted: he was the star, and the rest of them would have to get on board. He woke up the next day feeling like a fool and told Daniel he would go to rehab. He spent seven weeks at a center in Barbados, then flew back to London and immediately used again.
Across their first four albums, the 1975 became more and more eclectic. They followed up their emo-inflected début with an eighties-style synth-pop record bearing the majestically corny title “I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware of It.
“Being Funny in a Foreign Language” ended up an album in pursuit of love, rendered plainly. “Before, I always debased myself when I became sincere,” Healy told me. “I’d be sincere, and then I’d say, ‘Oh, I’m only joking,’ or ‘Oh, I pissed myself,’ or something else unglamorous to negate how much I just let you in.” At one point, in the studio, he was recording vocals for a track that became “I’m in Love with You,” and he kept trying to sneak a “not” into the chorus.
“What do I mean when I say I don’t care?” he asked. “What is that apathy I speak of? It’s an exhaustion, maybe. The truth is, when I go home, this is not the shit I’m dealing with. I’m not dealing with the crisis of masculinity. I’m dealing with how my mum’s feeling, what Ross is going through. I’m trying to be in service to people.” He was no longer invested in the project of being publicly correct. “I’ve done my decade of trying to be that,” he said.
I asked him about the podcast. He’d been doing so much promo, he told me, that he wanted to do something that felt more like simply talking with his friends. But, of course, he had done this all in public, on mike. Had he baited his fans on purpose? “A little bit,” he said. “But it doesn’t actually matter. Nobody is sitting there at night slumped at their computer, and their boyfriend comes over and goes, ‘What’s wrong, darling?’ and they go, ‘It’s just this thing with Matty Healy.
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