Words: Ali Mack
Directed by Adam Powell, The 1975 have debuted the video for Love It If We Made It', one of the tracks from the first of their two forthcoming full-length works, 'A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships', arriving on November 30.
It was also revealed today that there will be a new track, 'It's Not Living (If It's Not With You)', dropping this Thursday (October 18), plus dates for their 2019 North American tour.
The visuals for 'Love It If We Made It' festures news footage and stills of such figures as Lil Peep, Donald Trump, Harvey Weinstein, Brett Kavanaugh, Kanye West, and more. The video concludes with a list of movements and organizations like #MeToo, Black Lives Matter, UNICEF, Save The Children, and It Gets Better.
When the song was first aired back in July, Matty Healy explained the reference to Lil Peep, who died last November at the age of 21 (“Rest in peace Lil Peep / The poetry is in the streets / Jesus saves us!/ Modernity has failed us”) and others, when he appeared on Zanr Lowe's Beats 1 show.
"I’m saying Rest In Peace Lil Peep. He is very on the nose regardless of what you think of them as artists or people. With XXX and with Lil Peep. The thing that was happening in that movement regardless of what you think of it musically I felt like it was the closest thing that this generation has to a kind of Punk. It definitely felt important, whatever it is. And those two people are dead now just like that. They’re just dead. And I’m saying Rest In Peace Lil Peep.
"If you want to go and talk about big Pharma and pharmaceutical companies and overprescription of drugs. Yeah of course … of course that’s definitely played a part in it but that’s not what I’m saying. I’m saying that other points in the song. I’m saying lot of things … I’m saying a lot of individual things but the fact is is that all of these things nuclear they’re radioactive.
"It’s probably the best place to put it is in a song because you can let it finish and go … OK well I can’t react to a song so I’ll just listen to it again and then see if I get the same reaction is as opposed to like it’s an opinion on Twitter where you can go “hey, fuck you” we will never. It’s not opinionated. It provides what is happening."
There's also a nail in to Kanye West and Donald Trump in the lyrics: “Tell me something I didn’t know / Consultation degradation fossil fueling masturbation immigration liberal kitsch kneeling on a pitch / ‘I moved on her like a bitch!!’/ Excited to be indicted / Unrequited house with seven pools / Thank you Kanye, very cool!/War has been incited and guess what you’re all invited.”
Watch below.
Live dates 2019
JANUARY
09 Belfast, SSE Arena
10 Dublin, 3Arena
12 Glasgow, SSE Hydro
14 Cardiff, Motorpoint Arena
16 Brighton, Brighton Centre
18 London, The O2
19 London, The O2
21 Exeter, Westpoint
23 Birmingham, Arena Birmingham
24 Manchester, Manchester Arena
25 Sheffield, FlyDSA Arena
MARCH
20 Guadalajara, Mexico - Auditorio Telmex ^
APRIL
15 Phoenix, AZ - Comerica Theatre ^*
16 Las Vegas, NV - The Joint ^*
25 Seattle, WA - WaMu Theater ^*
26 Vancouver, British Columbia - Doug Mitchell Thunderbird Sports Centre ^*
27 Portland, OR - Veterans Memorial Coliseum ^*
29 Orem, UT - UCCU Center ^*
30 Morrison, CO - Red Rocks Amphitheatre ^*
MAY
02 Irving, TX - The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory ^*
03 Austin, TX - Austin360 Amphitheater ^*
04 Sugar Land, TX - Smart Financial Centre ^*
07 Minneapolis, MN - The Armory ^*
08 Chicago, IL - United Center ^*
11 Rochester Hills, MI - Meadow Brooks Amphitheatre ^*
12 Cincinnati, OH - PNC Pavilion at Riverbend Music Center ^*
14 Columbus, OH - The LC Pavilion ^*
15 Nashville, TN - Ascend Amphitheater ^*
18 Atlanta, GA - State Bank Amphitheatre at Chastain Park ^*
19 Charlotte, NC - Charlotte Metro Credit Union Amphitheatre ^*
21 Washington, DC - The Anthem ^*
JUNE
02 Darien Center, NY - Darien Lake Amphitheater *
03 Toronto, Ontario - Budweiser Stage *
^ with Pale Waves
* with No Rome
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