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The 1975 lead singer Matty Healy has deactivated his account on Twitter after he received backlash for his tweet about the death of George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter movement.

Floyd was a 46-year-old black man who was killed by Minneapolis cops while being arrested earlier this week. In a video that was taken by an eyewitness, he could be heard saying “I can’t breathe” while an officer kneeled on his neck for several minutes.

Matty went on Twitter and wrote, “If you truly believe that ‘ALL LIVES MATTER’ you need to stop facilitating the end of black ones.”

The tweet also included a link to The 1975‘s song “Love It If We Made It,” which begins with lyrics that say, “We’re f–king in a car, shooting heroin / Saying controversial things just for the hell of it / Selling melanin and then suffocate the black men / Start with misdemeanors and we’ll make a business out of them.”

Matty received a lot of backlash from people who feel that he used Floyd‘s death to promote his music.

Before deleting his account, Matty reportedly wrote this apology: “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.”

The 1975 just released their new album!

The English band – consisting of members Matthew Healy, George Daniel, Ross MacDonald, and Adam Hann – dropped their fourth studio album titled Notes on a Conditional Form.

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“This is certainly my most ‘not give a f–k’ record,” Matt recently shared about the album with Pitchfork. “Not in a nihilistic, punk, teenage, ‘we better not give a f–k so we don’t get hurt’ way, but in a grown-up way. There’s no ego in there. When I talk about myself on the album, I’m pretty much s–tting on myself all the time.”

You can download The 1975‘s new album Notes on a Conditional Form off of iTunes here and stream it below!

The 1975 is back with a brand new song!

The band dropped their latest track, “Guys,” on Wednesday (May 13).

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“I really love this song. It’s really, I don’t know. It’s really nice. It’s really quite earnest. It’s quite real. I don’t really look back very much either in that regard, like properly sentimentally. So it was nice to do that…I think I just wanted to write a love letter to friendship, as opposed to every love song being about our romantic relationships. I think that our friendships are obviously our most formative relationships. So shout out to the homies,” Matt Healy said of the song to Zane Lowe on Apple Music.

“The moment that we started a band was the best thing that ever happened and I wish that we could do it again,” he sings in the chorus.

Listen to “Guys” and read the lyrics inside…More Here! »

The 1975 is back!

The band dropped their new single, “If You’re Too Shy (Let Me Know),” on Thursday (April 23).

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“‘Maybe I would like you better if you took off your clothes / I’m not playing with you, baby, I think that you should give it a go’ / She said, ‘Maybe I would like you better if you took off your clothes, I wanna see and stop thinking, if you’re too shy then let me, too shy then let me know,’” Matt Healy sings.

The song is the latest from their upcoming record Notes on an Conditional Form, out on May 22.

Listen and read the lyrics inside…

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Ellie Goulding is responding to The 1975‘s Matt Healy.

In a recent interview with Beat, Matt discussed the culture of streaming and sales.

“The artists whose single streams are in the billions, people don’t buy their albums, necessarily…Ellie Goulding, people will listen to her music at the gym and they will listen to it on playlists. They’ll put the Pop playlist on and it will get out there. When it comes to her putting out a record, which is someone saying, ‘Will you invest in my lifestyle?’ or ‘Do you want to invest in me, as an idea?’…I have a lot of ‘Yes, I want to invest in you as an idea, and less, ‘I’ll pop this on when I’m doing whatever,’” he told the magazine.

“I’ve had 3 multi platinum albums so I feel like people have been fairly invested but ok I’ll let you have it,” Ellie responded on her Instagram Story.

One star recently apologized to Matt Healy in a public note – find out why.

Maroon 5 is calling out The 1975.

The Adam Levine fronted group took to Twitter to comment on the similarities between their their 1997 album The Fourth World and promotional artwork posted by The 1975 for their new single “Me & You Together Song.”

“Hey @the1975, you guys big ‘Kara’s Flowers’ fans?” the band wrote on their account.

Kara’s Flowers was Maroon 5‘s original name which they used until around 2000.

Later, The 1975 singer Matt Healy responded, writing, “I don’t know what the f**k that is but I love that song about being in a phone box or whatever it is.”

Maroon 5 has yet to write back to Matt.

The 1975 is heading out on tour!

The guys – Matthew Healy, George Daniel, Ross MacDonald, and Adam Hann – shared the exciting news with fans on Thursday (January 16).

The tour will kick off on April 27 at The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion in Houston, TX. The run will include shows at The Forum in Los Angeles (May 7), Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Morrison, CO (May 11), and New York City’s Madison Square Garden (May 26). Phoebe Bridgers and Beabadoobee will support on most dates.

The 1975 will also be performing at numerous 2020 festivals, including Bonnaroo. See the full list of dates below.

The pre-order for pre-sale ticket access is available now and will run through January 23. Tickets go on sale to the general public on January 24.

One dollar from each ticket sold will go to One Tree Planted, a non-profit organization that plants trees all over the world to fight climate change, protect biodiversity, empower communities and restore our planet.

Listen to The 1975‘s just-released song “Me & You Together Song” from their upcoming album Notes On A Conditional Form if you haven’t yet!

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