{"id":75645,"date":"2019-01-13T14:38:46","date_gmt":"2019-01-13T13:38:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/01\/13\/the-1975-review-from-anguished-sincerity-to-cool-detachment-and-back\/"},"modified":"2019-01-13T14:38:46","modified_gmt":"2019-01-13T13:38:46","slug":"the-1975-review-from-anguished-sincerity-to-cool-detachment-and-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=75645","title":{"rendered":"The 1975 review \u2013 from anguished sincerity to cool detachment and back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SSE Hydro, GlasgowMatty Healy cuts a charismatic figure, at once practised pop star and overexcited kid, fronting a band at the peak of their careerMidway through the 1975\u2019s show, Matty Healy addresses the audience. It\u2019s difficult to make out exactly what he says \u2013 the fans are not above the occasional teenybopper scream \u2013 but it\u2019s something about this being the peak of their careers. You can see why he might feel like that: the SSE Hydro is heaving, and barely a month after the release of the 1975\u2019s third album, A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships, their largely late-teen and early-twentysomething audience appear to have memorised the whole thing, singing along word-perfect and greeting Give Yourself a Try and It\u2019s Not Living (If It\u2019s Not With You) as if they were the band\u2019s greatest hits.Their success is founded both on Healy\u2019s charisma \u2013 he\u2019s very good at the business of being a pop star, confessional interviews, grand pronouncements and all \u2013 and the way they\u2019ve carved out a unique, liminal space in the current pop landscape. They exist somewhere between alt-rock and pop: their sound is built on the bones of 80s AOR and frequently influenced by Drake\u2019s Auto-Tuned solipsism, but there\u2019s a smartness and a degree of edge there. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2019\/jan\/13\/the-1975-sse-hydro-glasgow-live-review-matty-healy\" target=\"_blank\">The 1975 review \u2013 from anguished sincerity to cool detachment and back<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SSE Hydro, GlasgowMatty Healy cuts a charismatic figure, at once practised pop star and overexcited kid, fronting a band at the peak of their careerMidway through the 1975\u2019s show, Matty Healy addresses the audience. It\u2019s difficult to make out exactly what he says \u2013 the fans are not above the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}