Matthew Healy

After reading a strikingly beautiful - yet slightly alarming - article about none other than Matty Healy of The 1975, with the occasional mention of 'the other three', I made the decision to write my own take on my favourite person in the music industry, and potentially the entire world bar, you know, family and stuff.

'No one's asking you to inspire a revolution, but inspire something.' Is a phrase quoted by Healy that attracted my attention. I thought about the world and the political issues and peoples morals and how much they've changed over the past 50, 30, 10 years. Marriage, as one of many examples, this is shown: if something is wrong, someone's unhappy with a movement, they remove themselves from the situation. What we should really be doing is working to make it right! We can not keep running from our dilemmas and hiding from the real world, we're losing it, losing the world that once was, and I wonder if the raging teen online feminists will actually be the generation who 'revive' us. A revolution, some may say, is what we need and to an extent I agree but Matty really has the idea of inspiring something, someone, in itself is really the biggest gift we could give to the world. I know he's most definitely inspired me and whether that is as being a perfectly decent human being or with the work I do with my music I am yet to decide, but am leaning towards a combination of the two.

His change to himself is as true to me as his lyrical genius-ness. As a girl who grew up in a church-like home, never been near drugs, rarely even parties I'm not quite sure how or why I got into enjoying the profound words he spews onto sheets but there's something about the past and realness in them that makes my soul happy. His state of mind is something I'd love to get to know and as a person who I, not so much as look up to, but admire, I feel the bands songs help me get closer to him. I felt it unfair to name this article 'The 1975' and will argue till the day I die that I adore the other band members so much but this piece was purely for Matty and his pretentious self due to the provoking article  and I just wanted to get my thoughts out about him.

There is nothing in this post that will ever reveal the amount of love I have for him and this band but the fact I even tried to put into words my thoughts on him show that he's on my mind, always. February 2016 will prove to me an amazing month, I'm hoping, due to the release of their second album 'I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware Of It'. I also get to see the band the last date of their tour this month, 28th November, in Manchester and also March 13th in Manchester so that should be a lot of fun and I'm excited to see how they deliver old and new songs live!

The Stars are Crying

So yesterday was bonfire night in England, and as always, my town had a display by the beach. Me and a few of my friends, despite the rain, headed down and watched the show. The bad weather cleared up soon enough and it was surprisingly warm for the time of year! I'd forgot how wonderful the fireworks are, and was completely in awe. It was so lovely to see friends I don't usually meet up with outside of school and stuff too and I spent the night looking at the beautiful sky with beautiful friends. One of them said "it's like the stars are falling apart" which then inspired my title 'the stars are crying'. I thought that was really cute and thought provoking!!