The band shared this poem as an introduction to Music For Cars. The poem is about social media and how there’s better ways to live and see things rather than through your phone, you can actually go outside and see the real world.
Matty’s always been very open about his feelings towards social media...
Welcome, welcome boys and girls into a more distracted world – comprised of all the things you knew but older now (that's me and you) –the things inside post – 'don't you mind' reflect upon a recent time – where you and I were both online and part of a collective mind And still are we online you see but with much more consultancy – In groups we search ironically to find our self identity, embracing femininity, skeptics of affinity – maybe neither actually – deleting all civility – and fearing most proximity – but that has happened 'obviously' if you look retrospectively – but that's my point – that hindsight there – it's captured our collective stare a constant daze at bygone days seduced by programmed time delays – inside our phones our need has grown for inside there we're not alone – you see it's not all doom and gloom, just sanctify outside your room – it's easy when you're made aware, a more authentic captured stare – and something else to celebrate the fact that we can stay up late and share and care and make aware, some stranger who is over there – and change and mould and right some wrongs whilst streaming all our favourite songs – the left and right grow more apart but you can just click 'add to cart'.
A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships was written by The 1975 & Matty Healy.
The 1975 released A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships on Sun Apr 29 2018.