Then, after a brief chuckle and pause, he answers with a lot more than one word, as he tends to do. When I ask Healy what makes it so urgent to follow up this album with another so quickly, he answers with a single word: 'life.' Last Friday, The 1975 released their third studio album, A Brief Inquiry into Online Relationships, the first of two albums that will make up the Music For Cars era, to be completed with another full-length album, Notes on a Conditional Form, to be released in May of next year. 'And there's a lot of stuff to feel at the moment.' 'My job is to get pissed to feel,' he says. Healy-though he wants to take risks-says that it's not his job to guide your politics, or teach you the difference between wrong and right. Think of how even the once notably apolitical Taylor Swift has gotten involved in the Instagram endorsement game. It's a complicated time to be an artist with a large platform audiences have come to demand that artists make clear and cogent statements about everything happening in the world around them. If Healy sounds conflicted, it's understandable. Because you can create a safe place with art where you're bold and you take risks in ways that you would never do in your real life.'īesides, Healy said, 'if I'm going to write, if I'm going to do the thing, I might as well go to the real places, the shit I really care about.'Īnd yet, Healy followed that up by cautioning: 'As an artist, we don't have to have answers.' He said, 'We're supposed to signpost toward ideals and utopian ideas, and kind of uphold progressive movements, we're not diplomats, and you shouldn't ask artists how we should run the world, 'cause they're the most self-centered subset of humanity that we've got.' 'But they probably, most of the time, quite often, don't.

'There's that thing surrounding us, a lot of people think the artist is gonna live their real life like they do their art,' Healy explained to me. Because what the fuck else is there to do at this point? Matty Healy doesn't know, but still, he has a lot to say, and he wants to take the same kind of risks in his life that he does in his music.

He knows a lot of people don't think a musician should be the person to try and educate people about the rise of fascism in the U.S., but Healy's angry, so he's going to tell you about it anyway.

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