The 1975 Hiatus Isn’t a Break Up, Matty Healy Clarifies: ‘That’s Not Happening’
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When the 1975 goes off-grid following the conclusion of the Still… At Their Very Best tour, it won’t mark the end of the band itself. Earlier this week, Matty Healy told an audience in Sacramento that an “indefinite hiatus of shows” has been planned following the run of concerts. Two days alter, in San Jose, the frontman clarified: “I didn’t mean to scare any hardcore fans by insinuating that we were splitting up or anything like that. That’s not happening. Don’t worry about that.”
Some sectors of pop fans have been traumatized by their favorite bands announcing a hiatus only to never actually return (cough cough One Direction). But artists taking a break following months on the road is fairly standard. The 1975 took three years in between the tour supporting their 2013 self-titled debut and the one supporting their 2016 album I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful yet So Unaware of It. Part of that time was spent resting, and part of it was spent making the next record, as the cycle goes.
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The band has historically released an album every two years, on average, since their debut. The 1975’s fifth studio album Being Funny in a Foreign Language was released in October 2022. They performed 93 shows supporting the record on the At Their Very Best tour, then returned fro another 33 shows in North America and 27 in Europe on the Still… At Their Very Best run.
It’s as good a time as any for the band to step away. Earlier this year, the four-piece — rounded out by Adam Hann, Ross MacDonald, and George Daniel — were thrust into a new sphere of public perception when Healy was rumored to be dating Taylor Swift. And then there were the offensive comments the frontman wielded at the rapper Ice Spice during a problematic podcast appearance that brought his often times questionable behavior to the masses, rather than keeping it contained to the walls of the 1975’s fandom.
“There just needs to be a very firm, full stop at the end of Still… At Their Very Best,” Healy continued on stage. “Because I kind of still know what I’m doing, but part of me doesn’t.”
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