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Matty Healy
Healy performing in Latvia in 2019
Born
Matthew Timothy Healy

(1989-04-08) 8 April 1989 (age 35)
Hendon, England
Other namesTruman Black[1]
Alma materAcademy of Contemporary Music
Parents
Musical career
Genres
Occupation(s)
  • Singer-songwriter
  • musician
  • record producer
Instrument(s)
  • Vocals
  • guitar
  • keyboards
Years active2002–present
Labels
[11]
Member ofThe 1975
Websitethe1975.com
Signature
File:Matty Healy Signature.png

Matthew Timothy Healy (born 8 April 1989) is an English singer-songwriter, musician, and record producer. He came to prominence as the lead vocalist and lyricist of pop rock band the 1975.

Born in London and raised largely in the Cheshire town of Wilmslow, Healy formed the 1975 in 2002 with schoolmates Ross MacDonald, Adam Hann, and George Daniel. The band released four extended plays before releasing their self-titled studio album in 2013. They followed it with I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful yet So Unaware of It (2016), A Brief Inquiry into Online Relationships (2018), Notes on a Conditional Form (2020) and Being Funny in a Foreign Language (2022). Each of their studio albums topped the UK Albums Chart and garnered critical acclaim.

Healy's songwriting, about the millennial generation, masculinity, socio-political milieu, and his own life and relationships, has been praised throughout the music industry and the public. He is also known for his provocative on-stage persona which has been characterised as performance art for its theatricality. His work with the band made him the recipient of four Brit Awards, and two Ivor Novello Awards including Songwriter of the Year. He has also received nominations for a Mercury Prize and two Grammy Awards.

Early life

Matthew Timothy Healy was born on 8 April 1989 in Hendon, north London.[12] He is a son of actor Tim Healy[13] and actress and television presenter Denise Welch; they divorced in 2012.[14] His younger brother, Louis, is an actor.[15] Through his mother, Healy is a grandson of drag queen Vin Welch.[16] He spent his early years living on a cattle farm in Hedley on the Hill, Northumberland,[17][18] but the family moved to Wilmslow, Cheshire when he was nine.[19][16]

Healy's parents were working actors of stage and television for much of his childhood, with his mother becoming a celebrity figure in his teens.[20] He himself had no interest in acting[15] but did appear as an extra in his parents' television shows including Coronation Street,[21] Byker Grove[22] and Waterloo Road.[23] His parents were music fans, introducing him to soul and Motown,[24][25][26] and his father socialised with many musicians including Brian Johnson of AC/DC (who became Healy's godfather),[27] Rick Wakeman of Yes, Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits, and Jeff Lynne of Electric Light Orchestra.[25] Peter Hook of Joy Division and New Order was a neighbour.[28] His mother's godfather, screenwriter Ian La Frenais, introduced him to Ringo Starr.[29] The first guitar Healy ever played was used by Dire Straits to record "Romeo and Juliet".[30] He has said this early proximity to musicians meant the possibility of "being a rock star was part of my reality."[31]

Healy was a quiet child, with recurring vivid nightmares.[29] He was an only child for the first twelve years of his life "so there were a lot of video games, a lot of Michael Jackson videos, a lot of singing and dancing to myself and self-involvement."[32] Unlike his younger brother,[15] Healy "grew up in a party house"[25] and has recalled sleeping "in the bar" of London's Groucho Club on numerous occasions.[33] He has remembered this aspect of his childhood as "exciting" rather than "distressing."[25] His parents both had issues with alcohol[25] and his mother used cocaine to self-medicate during periods of acute depression, including postpartum depression.[34]

Healy was privately educated at Lady Barn House School[35] and King's School, Macclesfield; he was expelled from the latter for starting a fight club.[26][16] At the age of 12, Healy won a King's School talent contest, with renditions of songs by The La's and Oasis, and told his local newspaper that he would "like to be a pop singer" when he grew up.[19] He then transferred to the local comprehensive Wilmslow High School, where he met and befriended his future bandmates.[34] Years later, he said he had found school "a tedious imposition, getting in the way of me being a pop star".[25] He left school at sixteen with two GCSEs.[36] He then attended music college for three months before dropping out.[37] The Academy of Contemporary Music website lists Healy as a 2008 alumnus.[38][39]

Career

See also: List of awards and nominations received by The 1975

2002–2011: Formation and early years of the 1975

Healy with The 1975 in 2014

In 2002, at the age of 13, Healy formed the 1975,[40] along with lead guitarist Adam Hann, bassist Ross MacDonald, and drummer and producer George Daniel,[41] who he had met at Wilmslow High School.[42] Daniel's initial impression of Healy was as "the most outwardly passionate person in school".[43] Healy was originally the drummer, but was promoted to frontman after the departure of Elliott Williams.[44] Healy and Daniel are the principal songwriters in the group; Daniel has described himself as the "primary producer" and Healy as the "primary songwriter".[43][45] Their first performance for 200 people was as part of the council-run Macclesfield Youth Bands.[46]

After leaving school, Healy persuaded his bandmates to attend university in Manchester: "I didn't get any GCSEs so I didn't have options. It was the band or nothing."[47] He worked in a Chinese restaurant during this period.[25] Healy's mother worried about his future but his father "believed in [him] unquestioningly".[48] The band played under various names – Talkhouse, The Slowdown, Bigsleep, Drive Like I Do – around Greater Manchester.[49]

The 1975 were rejected by every major record label,[50] with executives confused by the band's genre-hopping approach. Healy later remarked: "We create in the way we consume. We're from this generation, and we don't want to be from another time."[51] Healy has described the band's manager Jamie Oborne as the band's "fifth member".[43]

2012–2015: Rise to fame

After seven years as the band's manager, Oborne set up his own independent label, Dirty Hit,[25] and the band released four extended plays in quick succession; Facedown and Sex in 2012, and Music for Cars and IV in 2013.[52]

Healy performing in France in 2014

The band began to build momentum in late 2012. Radio DJ Zane Lowe, who was then at the BBC, gave airplay to the EP Facedown,[53] and the band had radio success with "Sex" and "Chocolate",[54] and released their debut album The 1975 in 2013.[54] Healy said the album was inspired by John Hughes and was intended to be "almost a soundtrack to our teenage years."[55] In reviewing the album, Michael Hann of The Guardian said "the best of the writing here – and it works better at length – is fabulous."[55] The album reached number one on the UK Album Chart.[56] The band sold out three nights at London's Brixton Academy, supported The Rolling Stones at Hyde Park,[50] and played the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury Festival.

2016–present: Continued success and critical acclaim

The 1975 released their second album I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful yet So Unaware of It in 2016. Alexis Petridis of The Guardian praised the "witty self-awareness and deprecation" of Healy's lyrics: "He has an eye for a prosaic detail that undercuts the air of bustling self-importance."[57] The album reached number one in both the UK and US,[25] earned a Grammy Award nomination, Brit Award nomination, and was shortlisted for the Mercury Prize.[58][59][60]

Healy performing in Germany in 2019

They then released A Brief Inquiry into Online Relationships (2018), Notes on a Conditional Form (2020) and Being Funny in a Foreign Language (2022), all of which topped the UK Albums Chart.[61]

Healy and bandmate Daniel co-produced No Rome's EP RIP Indo Hisashi,[62] which was released in August 2018.[63]

In 2019, Healy received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Rock Song for "Give Yourself A Try" from their third studio album, A Brief Inquiry into Online Relationships.[64] The album also won a Brit Award for British Album of the Year.[65] In 2020, the band won Band of the Decade, Best British Band, and the Innovator Award at the NME Awards.[66] In 2022, the band released their fifth studio album Being Funny in a Foreign Language, reaching their fifth consecutive number one in the UK.[61] In 2023, they won a Brit Award for British Rock/Alternative Act and received a Brit Award nominations for British Album of the Year and British Group.[67] In April 2023, the band released Live With The BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, which reached number two in the UK.[61]

In 2021, he and Daniel produced Beabadoobee's solo EP Our Extended Play, which was released in March 2021.[68] In October 2021, Healy opened for Phoebe Bridgers at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles on her Reunion Tour. He performed two new songs, one called "New York".[69] "Sleep Tight", a Healy and Rob Milton composition, was released by Holly Humberstone in April 2022, and two tracks written by Healy, "Pictures of Us" and "You're Here That's the Thing", were included in Beabadoobee's album Beatopia in July 2022.[70] In 2022, Healy co-wrote an unreleased song with Lewis Capaldi for his Broken by Desire to Be Heavenly Sent album, and also worked with Taylor Swift on an unreleased version of her Midnights album.[71][72] In 2023, Healy co-produced and featured on The Japanese House's single "Sunshine Baby".[73]

In a five-star review of their At Their Very Best tour Nick Reily for the Rolling Stone wrote, "Healy and co. have set an extremely high bar for other gigs this year. Part performance art, part rock show, all bolstered by some of the best pop songs to have emerged in the last decade. It should be considered a defining blueprint on how to do arena shows."[74]

Artistry

Influences

Healy performing in Poland in 2019

Michael Jackson's HIStory show at Wembley Arena in 1996 was Healy's first concert and he has described it as "one of the most memorable and important experiences I think I've ever had."[75] He has named The Streets as the artist that made him know "[he] was going to start a band."[76] "All My Friends" by LCD Soundsystem is his "forever song" and he has tried to replicate it "technically" and "emotionally" throughout his career.[77]

Healy has always been drawn to 80s music "when pop stars weren't so encumbered with self-awareness. I know that time had its decadence, but there's a real freedom in those records."[78] When the band was recording their debut album, the films of John Hughes were a major influence.[79][80]

In 2013, Healy listed his ten all-time favourite albums for Louder Than War. As well as mentions of The Streets and Michael Jackson, Healy listed albums by Glassjaw, My Bloody Valentine, Alexander O'Neal, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Hundred Reasons, Carole King, Peter Gabriel and James Taylor.[81] He has discussed how stand-up comedy is the biggest influence on his songwriting.[29]

In 2020, Healy recorded a podcast series interviewing his musical heroes; he had conversations with Stevie Nicks, Brian Eno, Steve Reich, Kim Gordon, Mike Kinsella, Conor Oberst and Bobby Gillespie.[82] Healy has also cited The Blue Nile, Talking Heads, Sigur Rós, and Joan Didion as influences.[83][84][85]

Healy has also been influenced by his favorite poets – Seamus Heany and Arthur Rimbaud – whose works he described as "dense and revolutionary".[86]

Voice

Healy possesses a tenor vocal range, with a rasp from his cigarette smoking.[87] Jia Tolentino of The New Yorker wrote that Healy has a "shape-shifting voice" where "he croons and wails and screams and murmurs, shading his delivery with a variety of personae".[16] His voice has also been described as "supple," "mellifluously melodic," and "always raw, with emotion".[88][89][90]

Songwriting

"One of music's most compulsively watchable provocateurs thanks to his inescapable charisma, open-mouthed honesty and his band's self-aware and sparkling 80s pop-rock."

— The Guardian on Healy, 2023[91]

Rolling Stone declared that in the music world, Healy is the "spokesperson for the millennial generation", while The Telegraph called him "the closest thing millennials have to Jim Morrison".[92][93] GQ has dubbed Healy "the poster boy for overthinkers",[94] with Ann Powers of NPR describing him as "an astute social observer who doubles as a confessionalist, offering disclosures that are always suspect: He might be lying every time he opens his mouth."[95] The Guardian commented on Healy: "Thoughts fly off him like sparks from a wheel. If this compulsion to say whatever is on his mind makes him a divisive figure – to some the mood board for a generation, to others a pretentious motormouth – then so be it."[96] The New York Times described him as "one of the best contemporary writers — especially outside of rap — on the process of consumption, whether it's drugs or culture or goods".[97] Pitchwork stated that Healy "is cursed with a self-awareness that can turn a simple idea into a galaxy-brain diatribe".[98] The Fader described his songwriting as having "layered, claustrophobic lyrics [which] reveal[s] a man obsessed with fear and fragility, success and failure, endlessly looking for answers about himself and the pop-culture world he uncomfortably inhabits".[99][100][101][102]

Healy’s most critically acclaimed songwriting is the song "Love It If We Made It", which earned him the 2019 Ivor Novello Award for Best Contemporary Song.[103] The song’s lyrics are inspired by tabloid headlines of articles covering social and political events of that period, such as police brutality, Black Lives Matter ("selling melanin and then suffocating black men"), the death of Alan Kurdi and the refugee crisis in Europe ("a beach of drowning three-year olds"), Colin Kaepernick’s anthem protest against racial injustice in the US ("kneeling on a pitch"), verbatim quotes from Donald Trump ("I moved on her like a bitch"), as well as direct quotes of Trump's tweets ("thank you Kanye, very cool") and a quote from Trump's presidential campaign t-shirt ("fuck your feelings"). The song also refers to post-truth politics, attention economy, prison system in the US, information overload, or the death of rapper Lil Peep.[102][104]

Performance style

Billboard has described Healy as "a rock star for a generation that's too clued-in to believe in rock stars."[94][105] The Times hailed that "Healy is that rare thing — a pop star who delights in ruffling feathers".[106] The Telegraph described him as "a compelling rock star, a gifted multi-instrumentalist... whose self-questioning lyrics and uninhibited stagecraft ensured that it was hard to take your eyes off him,"[89] while the Evening Standard characterized Healy as "The greatest pop star of his generation or an irritant of epic proportions depending on who you ask, [but] there's absolutely no denying his notoriety".[107]

Healy performing in Australia in 2020

Healy has stated in interviews that he is playing a character when performing, and that his onstage persona differs from his "soft and quiet" private self: "It's a joke! But the music isn't a fucking joke. I take my art very seriously, I don't take myself very seriously."[108][99] The Fader has described his onstage persona as "a preening, pouting, shirtless rock god".[99] He is noted for his theatrical interludes, political monologues, chain smoking and drinking from a bottle of red wine in between singing.[109][110] In January 2023, i commented on the character Healy plays onstage writing, "Healy is rarely without a drink in his hand and acts increasingly drunk, though this too is an artifice: […] nothing that we think is real, is real,"[111] with People commenting that he "often blurs lines on what is real and what he considers an acted "bit".[112]

"The enfant terrible of pop-rock"

— Pitchfork on Healy, 2020[113]

In late 2022, videos of Healy performing during the At Their Very Best world tour went viral on TikTok, prompting wide media coverage of his onstage actions, dubbing him "a sleazeball" or a "sensitive dirtbag".[114][16][115] Vox regarded Healy’s performance style as having "the unlikely ability to come across as endearing rather than gross, in part because it’s a self-aware, ironic performance of fame and authenticity in the social media age and in part because — well, he’s hot."[114]

In Rolling Stone's five-star review of their At Their Very Best in 2022, the magazine stated that Healy delivered "a subversive and surreal take on modern masculinity [that] when viewed in isolation on social media, that all-importance nuance is entirely absent."[74] The performance included him eating a raw steak, depicting masturbation and delivering 20 press-ups in immediate succession.[116][117] In the US leg of the tour, Healy got a tattoo on stage that read "iM a MaN".[118] Healy has also invited both male and female members of his audience to kiss him during his performance of the song "Robbers" and, on one occasion, sucked a fan's thumb.[119][120] The Guardian said it sparked conversations regarding consent, fantasy and art in 2022, and noted that Healy asked for fans' permission first.[116]

Personal life

Healy resides in northwest London.[121] He has a cane corso dog named after Norwegian black metal band Mayhem.[78][122]

Relationships

Healy performing in Chile in 2017

In 2013, Healy was romantically linked to American singer Halsey,[123] and she later cited him as an influence on her early songwriting.[124] Between 2015 and 2019, Healy was in a relationship with Australian model Gabriella Brooks.[125]

From early 2020 to 2022, Healy was in a relationship with English singer FKA Twigs.[126][127] She provided the background vocals for the 1975 song "If You're Too Shy (Let Me Know)",[128] and their relationship inspired Healy to write the song "I'm in Love with You".[129]

Sexuality

Healy identifies as straight,[34] though his sexuality has been a topic of discussion in the media throughout his entire career. In 2018, Healy refused to define his sexuality, stating he is "just a person".[130] and criticised how conversations about musicians revolve around their sexual identity.[130] In 2019, he said: "I'm quite a – I don't know what I am – an outspoken… bisexual… I don't know, whatever I am."[131] Later that year, when asked about his sexual identity by Attitude, he expressed that "all things are subject to change".[132] After Queerty republished his statements from the Attitude article and headlined it "Matt Healy comes out as "aesthete," says he'll kiss beautiful men but won't have sex with them", Healy issued a statement on Twitter, criticising the publication for misinterpreting his words: "I didn't come out as anything. […] I'm not playing a game and trying to take up queer spaces, I'm simply trying to be an ally and this headline makes me uncomfortable."[133][134][135] In 2020, when asked by ShortList if he is attracted to men, he stated "Yes, but not in a carnal, sexual way."[136]

In a 2019 interview with GQ, Healy described himself as "quite feminine" and spoke about his disinterest in masculinity: "I don't know that much about masculinity and its traditions because I'm not that involved in it."[94][137]

Health

Healy is a recovering heroin addict,[138][139] and has also struggled with cocaine and benzodiazepines abuse.[105][25] In late 2017, he underwent seven weeks of cognitive-behavioral therapy and equine-assisted therapy in drug rehabilitation,[140][141][142] paid for by his bandmates.[34] As of 2022, Healy still smokes marijuana.[143][98] Healy has written songs about his drug abuse, most notably "Chocolate" and "It's Not Living (If It's Not With You)", a song about his heroin addiction and recovery.[144][145][146]

Healy has ADHD, anxiety,[139][105][25] and deals with chronic migraines.[29] In a 2022 interview, Healy mentioned being in therapy and referred to dealing with trauma from "some early sexual experiences that, as [he] got older, were really, really difficult to deal with."[147][148] The song "Ballad of Me and My Brain" refers to his mental health.[149]

Religion

Healy identifies as an atheist and has stated he is "profoundly anti-religion".[25][150] He elaborated that he "used to be an Atheist, now I'm like an atheist. It's not that I have softened on the logic or anything, but I'm really understanding and quite sensitive of the culture of religion. Because culture is a very different thing to scripture and dogma. I want salvation as much as the next person. I envy the faithful."[86]

He is a patron of Humanists UK, a charitable organisation that promotes secular humanism, human rights and represents non-religious people.[151]

Activism and political views

Healy identifies as a liberal, elaborating in 2023: "I'm certainly not on the extreme left, but I also think that the word 'centrist' has become so ubiquitous that it's annoying. I suppose I'm a traditional progressive who is suspicious of woke-ism as a viable worldview or device to make things better."[98] Speaking of British politics in 2023, he stated that: "I'm as bored with the nonsense of the right as I am with the apathy of the left. The Labour Party here can't even get behind the rail workers and dockers' strikes."[152] On stage in the same year, Healy urged the audience to resist the demonisation of strikers, and to think about who might stand to gain from it.[153] While performing in Scotland in January and May, Healy gave a speech onstage in support of Scottish independence.[154][155]

Healy is outspoken on climate change issues. In 2020, Greta Thunberg recorded a speech about climate change for a 1975 track and the band have hired an "eco-management" company to work on their tours. A tree is planted for every ticket sold, the crew catering is sustainable, there is no plastic, and an area is set up in each venue where people can learn about "proper recycling".[34]

Healy performing in Spain in 2014

Healy has been outspoken about women's rights, particularly as it relates to the music industry. In 2018, Healy apologized after stating that "the reason misogyny doesn't happen in rock and roll anymore is because it's a vocabulary that existed for so long that it got weeded out".[156] He later described his comments as "ignorant" and "wrong, just outright misinformed."[157] When the 1975 won Best British Group at the 2019 Brit Awards, Healy used his acceptance speech to criticise misogyny in the music industry, quoting a piece by The Guardian's journalist Laura Snapes.[157] Also that year, Healy denounced Alabama's anti-abortion laws during a concert in the state, giving a speech on women's reproductive rights in which he also criticised the lawmakers: "You are not men of God, you are simply misogynistic wankers."[158] In 2020, he pledged to only playing at music festivals with a gender-balanced lineup.[159][160]

Healy has been a vocal advocate for LGBT rights. In 2018, Healy and his bandmates made what The Guardian described as a "significant" donation to an LGBTQ+ community centre for London.[161] In June 2019, Healy won Ally of the Year at the Diva Awards for using his platform to promote LGBT rights.[162] In August 2019, Healy was banned from Dubai after displaying a pride flag and kissing a male fan onstage to protest Dubai's anti-LGBT laws, an act that was punishable by ten years in prison.[163][164] In December 2022, he performed at the 8th annual Ally Coalition benefit show in support of LGBTQ+ youth.[165] In an interview for Attitude, Healy spoke about how his LGBTQ+ activism stems from his growing up surrounded by his mother's queer friends.[33]

When performing the 1975's 2017 song "Loving Someone" on stage, Healy regularly prefaces the song with comment on social issues; the song has variously been dedicated to victims of the 2016 Orlando nightclub shooting,[166] used to express solidarity with Black, Muslim and gay Americans following the 2016 US election results,[167] used to decry the "regressive ideals" of Brexit,[168] and dedicated to the people of Manchester and London following the 2017 Manchester Arena attack.[169] In May 2019,[170] an on-stage diatribe at an Alabama gig directed at the state's Human Life Protection Act meant the band had to flee the open carry state for safety reasons.[34] In December 2020, he used his Instagram to encourage his fans to support an Amnesty International campaign for Gustavo Gatica, who had been blinded after being shot by police during the 2019–2022 Chilean protests.[171]

Social media

Ann Powers of NPR has billed Healy as "a cannily self-made bad boy".[172] NME's Andrew Trendell stated that Healy had shown a "sensei-like mastery of […] shitposting", and that "[h]is Instagram stories have been awash with eyebrow-raising jokes, artful trolling of hardcore fans, and explicit attempts to get cancelled".[173] Michael Hunn of The Guardian has observed that Healy "must be a horror to handle" for his manager and publicist, commenting: "He says absolutely anything, sometimes contradicting himself from sentence to sentence. He makes up words […] and he’s grandly, fabulously pretentious."[174] Jia Tolentino of The New Yorker has described Healy's public persona in 2023 as "a post-woke rock star, switching unpredictably between tenderness and trollishness".[16]

In 2014, Healy tweeted that "ISIS are cutting little girls heads off and you want to challenge a non-religious, humanist perspective? I don't understand the world at all". When challenged by a nineteen-year-old Muslim woman operating a Harry Styles–themed Twitter account, he tweeted that he "resent[ed] being 'educated' on religion by a Harry Styles fan account."[174]

Healy performing in the United Kingdom in 2016

Following the death of George Floyd in 2020, Healy tweeted: "[I]f you truly believe that 'ALL LIVES MATTER' you need to stop facilitating the end of black ones", and posted a link to the 1975's protest song "Love It If We Made It". Amid online criticism that his tweet was self-promotional, Healy responded: "Sorry I did not link my song in that tweet to make it about me it’s just that the song is literally about this disgusting situation and speaks more eloquently than I can on Twitter."[175] It was, to Healy, the "clearest way to articulate his thoughts about racial injustice and police brutality, but people perceived it as a callous attempt to promote the band."[16] He subsequently deactivated his Twitter account.[16]

In January 2023, a video of Healy performing the 1975's protest song "Love It If We Made It" went viral. While singing the lyric "Thank you, Kanye, very cool", which is a direct quote of a tweet from Donald Trump,[176][177][178] Healy marched on the spot and raised his left hand, leading to online debate about whether the gesture was intended as a Nazi salute.[179][180] Prior to the backlash, Healy told the audience: "There’s a story [in the papers] calling me a Nazi tomorrow."[88] In November 2022, Healy had denounced West's recent anti-semitic remarks: "He's obviously someone who's dealing with grief and has mental health issues. That's not an excuse to do anti-semitism."[181]

In February 2023, Healy attracted backlash after appearing on the leftist irony podcast[180] The Adam Friedland Show; over the course of the podcast, he commented that Harry Styles had been given a "pass" for "queerbaiting",[182] laughed along as podcast host Friedland impersonated different accents,[183][184] including accents pertaining to American rapper Ice Spice's ancestry,[185][40] and joked about watching internet pornography in which Black women are "brutalized".[16][186][187] For this, he was accused of racism and misogyny.[184] The Guardian has commented that social media users have been "incorrectly attributing a lot of the co-hosts' comments to Healy".[188] Later that month, in an Auckland concert, he called his joking "misconstrued" and gave an on-stage apology to Ice Spice saying, "I am genuinely sorry if I've upset her because I fucking love her. [...] We all get it wrong, and I just have to do it in public..."[112] Addressing the backlash in a profile for The New Yorker, Healy said he purposely appeared on the podcast to provoke a reaction.[16] In June, while onstage in Denmark, Healy referred to leftist comedians and social critics George Carlin, Bill Hicks and Lenny Bruce as his "heroes" who exposed social hypocrisy with vulgarity, adding: "I do feel that if the left loses its ability to fuck shit up then we leave too much space for the right."[189]

Healy deactivated his Instagram account in early April 2023, stating during an Adelaide concert: "The era of me being a fucking arsehole is coming to an end. I've had enough. I perform all the time and it's my job and I love doing this but I can't perform off the stage anymore as I just want to be a bloke."[190][191] At a concert in Auckland in April 2023, Healy expressed regret for past actions saying, "I feel a bit bad because I've been a bit irresponsible. I don't like being famous. I make a joke out of everything and I've taken it too far sometimes in front of a lot of people and I feel embarrassed. That's the truth."[192]

Selected discography

See also: The 1975 discography
Healy performing in Germany, 2014

The 1975

Extended plays

Studio albums

Collaborations

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