{"id":3999,"date":"2020-08-12T11:49:25","date_gmt":"2020-08-12T18:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/songexploder.net\/?p=3999"},"modified":"2024-08-05T09:40:01","modified_gmt":"2024-08-05T16:40:01","slug":"the-1975","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/songexploder.net\/the-1975","title":{"rendered":"Episode 190: The 1975"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"subhead\">&#8220;The Birthday Party&#8221;<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/songexploder.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/SongExploder190-The1975-600x338.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-4181\" srcset=\"https:\/\/songexploder.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/SongExploder190-The1975-600x338.jpg 600w, https:\/\/songexploder.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/SongExploder190-The1975-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/songexploder.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/SongExploder190-The1975-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/songexploder.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/SongExploder190-The1975.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" width=\"650\" src=\"https:\/\/play.prx.org\/e?uf=http%3A%2F%2Ffeed.songexploder.net%2FSongExploder&#038;ge=prx_93_43ae3837-cdc5-4e19-809d-c0abb60ed47f\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"download-links\">LISTEN: <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-1975-the-birthday-party\/id788236947?i=1000487933422\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">APPLE PODCASTS<\/a> \u00b7 <a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/episode\/0bo4uVhzB44eIT2Pq9drNs?si=_KSCnjAXRxWKpmASGXV5dQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SPOTIFY<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/radiopublic.com\/SongExploder\/s1!9ea8e\">RADIOPUBLIC<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_1975\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The 1975<\/a> are a band from Manchester, England, made up of Matty Healy, Adam Hann, Ross MacDonald, and George Daniel. They started playing music together in 2002, when they were teenagers. Since then, they\u2019ve released four albums, won three Brit awards, and got two Grammy nominations. Their most recent album, <em>Notes on a Conditional Form<\/em>, came out in May 2020. In this episode, Matty and George break down how they made the song \u201cThe Birthday Party.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>You can <a href=\"https:\/\/song.link\/i\/1473600299\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">buy or stream &#8220;The Birthday Party&#8221; here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Do7B74dyEVs\" width=\"600\" height=\"330\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><span style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><span style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><br \/>\n<i>Illustration by <\/i><i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lerms.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Carlos Lerma<\/a><\/i><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>For a transcript of this episode, <a href=\"http:\/\/songexploder.net\/transcripts\/the-1975-transcript.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click here.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span class=\"header\">footnotes<\/span><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/teenage.engineering\/products\/op-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">OP-1 synthesizer<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/jwaughsaxophone\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">John Waugh &#8211; saxophonist<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Birthday Party&#8221; LISTEN: APPLE PODCASTS \u00b7 SPOTIFY \u00b7 RADIOPUBLIC The 1975 are a band from Manchester, England, made up of Matty Healy, Adam Hann, Ross MacDonald, and George Daniel. They started playing music together in 2002, when they were teenagers. Since then, they\u2019ve released four albums, won three Brit awards, and got two Grammy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4181,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-episode"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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