The 1975 Birthday Party In 2020
The 1975 just blew our minds with their new song, ‘The Birthday Party’ which features on their upcoming album ‘Notes on a Conditional Form’, set to drop on the 24th of April.
After sharing a track which features the teen climate activist, Greta Thunberg to promote their album, they gave us a taste of their upcoming project through a bunch of other releases like, ‘Me & You Together Song’, ‘Frail State of Mind’ and ‘People’.
If you thought this track could be played at birthdays, that is definitely not happening. This one’s got nothing to do with birthday parties, in fact, as the video and perhaps also the lyrics depict – this track takes a dip into a scattered mind and the dilemmas that plague us while growing up. So, yup, nothing here for kids!
Matt Healy, frontman, of The 1975 explained the idea behind the song in a recent interview, “There’s a song called “The Birthday Party” that’s just about the interesting social minutiae of house parties. I was gonna do a song that was like, ‘What it was like to be at a house party at 20, 25, and 29’. But then I realized I don’t need to do it, I just need to do what it’s like now, because my career has been what it’s been like to be at a house party at 20, 25, and 29.”
The animated music video will definitely pique your interest, as between the sprinkle of memes and video game characters, the crux of this one lies in escaping from the claws of technology. It shows the band enter a digital detox center and that’s all the spoilers you’re going to get! The video is directed by Ben Ditto and co-directed by Jon Emmony.
“Matty and I have a shared fascination with the underbelly of internet culture and how that impacts modern life, and we looked to address this from several directions and created an engaging and beautiful piece of filmmaking to contain these messages and their performance in a revolutionary way,” Ditto said in a statement.
It looks like Matty Healy is continuing his fight for social justice. Whether it’s as complex as refusing to perform at festivals with less than a 50-50 gender split or by simply telling you to put your phone away, for God’s sake, the 1975 are doing it right!
