booooooooooo

That was not a song

Is it just me or does the narrator sound like they're 7 years old

She's 16

Why would a band release something like this as a single lmao wtf is happening

I pretty much hate their music except for the more artsy tracks on their latest, this is a really cool move, using your status as pretty much iconic artists with new gen fans to spread an extremely urgent and important message, mad props to them for this. Instrumental's great as well.

message is important but yeah this sucks as a song, I could never see me listening to this, ever again

Important message, not a song [2]

This is guran-fuckin-teed to be one of the edgiest threads of the year

I mean Greta Thunberg is cool and climate change awareness is never misplaced but you'd think that after all the pseudowoke cringe bullshit this band have already handed us that they'd do something a little more creative than give her a monologue over 5 minutes of £2 elevator music if they really wanted to to make a point here themselves (inb4 half the album is in the same thematic avenue). Cut down and used as an interlude, this could have been their Fitter Happier but it feels like a really misgauged note to open an album on.

"Cut down and used as an interlude, this could have been their Fitter Happier"

this

sliced into 3 1 minute something interludes this could have worked, but as a 5 minute opener it just doesn't work.

Johnny idk dude I feel like yr completely forgetting these dudes are insanely popular in the mainstream and this doesn’t have to be artistically fulfilling to reach the masses

this song it totally effective, made me wanna go look for Rise Against' vid for Ready to Fall

This song is totally effective in a certain sense, but that's dangerous because it requires the listener to have a certain frame of mind they're almost certainly not going to have when turning on... this.

They've never been much of a political band previously but hey ho if that's what they want to do the message is important.

That said I've long felt they need to stop messing around with rubbish interludes and overlong albums and just release 35 minutes of banging pop songs. That sort of crap has held all of their full length LP's back

When civilization collapses and we all die of heatstroke and/or starvation I'll be able to go out happy knowing I had the correct opinion about a song by The 1975.

what if we fix the earth and then get hit with an asteroid either way

Karma

Then there can be 2 earths and we won't have to live on Mars duh

Yeah, I can see myself jamming along with this. Catchy song. Excited for the album.

team earth 1

song slaps

This song is totally effective in a certain sense, but that's dangerous because it requires the listener to have a certain frame of mind they're almost certainly not going to have when turning on... this. [2]

i think the track is great but the mood it puts me in is not 'listening to a The 1975 album'

anyways an interesting choice turning the title track from a song about blowjobs to an audio essay by a climate activist

I thought it couldn’t get worse than the last article about dragonforce news bit.

Yeah this is the dumbest thing I’ve ever seen.

Facebook ads and TED Talks do this why would you... like c’mon

I think the fact that they got someone who actually involves themselves in fighting climate change to write the words and just put some barebones piano plonking underneath it says a lot about how much these guys actually give a shit. Not that it makes it any less of a good message and y'know, better this than whatever shallow tripe Maroon 5 is peddling, but this still comes off as pretty calculated and posed.

The carbon footprint of a successful touring musician is markedly larger than that of the average person, fascinated to see how they'll address that little fun fact.

I enjoy that they thought it was important enough to spread vital climate catastrophe awareness but still had the intensity of ego to call it *The 1975* just in case anyone forgot who this was

Maybe the message isn't quite as important to these guys as exposure hmm

@Slex I mean sure, and I'm glad millions of people are going to hear these words, but at the same time you can bet your arse that this track would never have been released if the band weren't already damn sure that the band + label weren't clued onto the positive reaction those people would have to their platforming this message. Climate change should be cool and hip and championed publicly by trendy bands, but this is such a halfarsed effort on the 1975's part that I find it hard not to view it in cynical bandwagoning terms especially after they turned late capitalist post-truth into the postulational meme of the year on Love It If We Made It

AOCore

Very good point Johnny, I better understand where you’re coming from and that’s totally understandable

Fuck this band

There is no comparison in music history with which to understand this band. They are the most frustratingly pretentious collective of the last 2 centuries

"anyways an interesting choice turning the title track from a song about blowjobs to an audio essay by a climate activist" [2] LOL. You cite me, I cite you, well deserved.

this band has literally never been good wake up losers

No one was saying otherwise but okay I guess

Kompy wake up you loser