♪ (industrial music) ♪
- ♪ Well, I know when you're around, 'cause I know the sound ♪
- (gasps) The 1975.
- Is this the 1975?
♪ (indie synthpop) ♪
- He's so cute. - He is really cute.
- I'm gonna be completely honest. I don't really like this band.
- Ugh! I got into them my senior year of high school.
- ♪ ...when you're around, 'cause I know the sound ♪
♪ I know the sound of your heart ♪
♪ I can't believe I forgot... ♪
- I wanted hair like that so bad when I was in high school.
- ♪ Oh baby, won't you come again? ♪
♪ She said, "I've got a problem with your shoes and your tunes ♪
♪ But I might move in" ♪
♪ Well, I know when you're around, 'cause I know the sound ♪
♪ I know the sound of your heart ♪
- Ooh. This is groovy.
- It's just so catchy.
- ♪ I know the sound of your heart ♪
♪ It's not about reciprocation ♪
♪ It's just all about me ♪
♪ A sycophantic, prophetic ♪
♪ Socratic junkie wannabe ♪ - I don't like this.
- ♪ There's so much... ♪ - They're just so angsty and...
"Is this a joke?" Okay, I'm supposed to be analyzing this.
- I'm so confused. "Do people really still make music like this?"
- Are these actual comments?
- "This band thinks it has a charismatic singer.
They are mistaken." (chuckles)
- These are critics, like, getting mad at him.
- This seems like about how people criticize art.
- ♪ I know the sound of your heart ♪
- "Punch-your-TV obnoxious."
What the heck? These people are so rude.
- ♪ Well, I know when you're around, 'cause I know the sound ♪
♪ I know the sound of your heart ♪ - ♪ (humming along) ♪
- I like it.
It's just kind of pointing to the idea
that it's far easier to criticize other people's creations
than to actually make something yourself.
- Everything feels totally wrong.
- Oh, see, look. He looks complete-- - (shushing) He's talking.
- (gasps) They're British. - (Matty) We're not a pop band.
And it feels like a really pop video.
The whole scenario's not really what we're about.
It needs to be black and white for a start.
- (laughs)
♪ (The 1975, "Girls") ♪ - Oh, I love this song!
- Has he ever smiled?
- I know them. Oh my god, wait.
- ♪ Bite your face to spite your nose ♪
♪ 17 and a half years old ♪ - That's a good lyric.
- ♪ Worrying about... ♪ - Wait, okay. Hold up, I like this part.
- Oh god. Half-naked women with guitars
that are gonna act like they're gonna play,
but they don't know what they're doing.
- Oh my gosh. This is 1975.
- I love it.
- ♪ ...just girls breaking hearts ♪ - ♪ (sings along) ♪
- ♪ And eyes bright, uptight ♪
♪ Just girls ♪
♪ A pair of frozen hands to hold ♪
♪ Oh, she's so southern so she... ♪
- He is so unamused by everything.
You have really attractive girls
cooking on a grill right behind you.
- ♪ Eyes bright, uptight, just girls ♪
- Is it 1975?
Ah! Hee.
- ♪ Destined to be hard ♪
- I feel like maybe they're making--
not making fun of pop music, but they're commentating on it.
- ♪ "I can't take you" ♪
♪ I know you're looking for salvation in the secular age" ♪
- You know, I feel like this should be the soundtrack
to, like, Sixteen Candles or The Breakfast Club.
- ♪ Wrestle to the ground ♪
♪ God help me now because ♪
♪ They're just girls ♪
- They're really pretty. - Put some clothes on.
- (grossed out) Oh! (laughs)
Spitting out Pepto-Bismol.
- I love this song.
♪ (song ends) ♪
- Oh! What? No way! Yes!
I like it. He smiled at the end. I'm happy.
- I liked it. I was confused by it though.
I don't know if I was trying to look too deeply into it
because of the other video.
- I love the 1975.
I'm probably gonna go back home and listen to them now.
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- (Finebros) So do you have any idea who this group is?
- I have no idea.
- No.
- The 1975.
- It's kind of hard not to know who this band is,
when, like, every girl I've ever met is like,
"Oh my god, Matt Healy is so hot."
- (both) 1975.
- A YouTuber by the name of Ingrid or, I think, Missglamorazzi
had them on her "Favorites of May."
- I was in my friend's car, I think.
And the song "Chocolate"-- I think that's what it's called--
that song was playing.
And my friend just could not stop going,
♪ Never gonna quit it, no, I'm never gonna quit it, no ♪
- (Finebros) Well, they're called the 1975.
- Oh, okay.
I actually have them on my Spotify playlist.
I didn't know that they were that male. (chuckles)
- Oh, I know them.
They're the classic, staple Urban Outfitters song band.
You walk into Urban Outfitters, 1975 is playing.
- (Finebros) The first music video we showed you
was for a song called "The Sound,"
which is on their newest album.
And it's gotten almost 11 million views.
- (gasps) Wow, good for them.
- (Finebros) The second video is one of their more popular songs
from their first album, called "Girls,"
that has over 26 million views on YouTube.
What did you think of the videos? - I kinda liked the second one,
'cause the girl threw up Pepto-Bismol.
- They're trying to be super indie and super, like...
like, "We're different,
but we're being the same as what the '80s were."
- I thought they were very creative,
and I felt like they both have meanings behind them.
- It really showed what I think
they want to portray in their music, which is like they're--
- They're different and they want--
- They're different and they want it
to be more about the music than the glamour.
- (Finebros) What do you think of the 1975's music?
- It's not really my type of music.
- I like their music. It's very catchy.
- I really like that sound. I think that's fun to groove to.
- Their sound is so unique to modern music on the radio.
- They're just being themselves.
They're just being as authentic to themselves as possible.
And there's something that's very relatable to that.
- I think the music is great.
It's just fun music that is a little angsty.
It makes you feel like one of those cool kids
in a leather jacket.
- (Finebros) Their latest album is called
"I Like It When You Sleep,
for You Are So Beautiful yet So Unaware of It."
- Wow, that's a really long title.
- British boys and their charm.
- It's romantic yet creepy.
- (Finebros) They have found a ton of success.
The album debuted at number one on the U.S.
and U.K. album charts.
Why do you think they've had so much success?
- I think that they just have a really unique sound.
- They have super sick music videos,
and it shows that they are more than musicians; they're artists.
- (Finebros) So they've had this huge success here recently.
But they've been successful in the U.K.
for quite some time before that
and weren't as big here at that time.
What do you think about how bands can be huge somewhere,
and you might not even know about them, from another country?
- Yeah, that's so crazy, especially because we have the internet
and we feel like we're like a very globalized world.
- You don't take the time out of your day
to go research actually good music from other countries,
which is really sad.
- It's really interesting growing up in America,
because it seems like America
is a really big trendsetter for the rest of the world.
And so when someone makes it in America, they make it worldwide.
- It's not that surprising that a band so good
could be so big there and not known here,
just because we're so focused on what we produce.
And it's not till they come here that people start realizing.
- (Finebros) Finally, in talking about the band today
and hearing their music,
do you think they will continue to find success into the future?
- Yes, I hope so.
- They probably will.
People will eat anything up now.
- I completely, wholeheartedly believe
in their success for the future.
- I think they're on a roll,
and I really want to listen to their albums.
- Based on what I've heard,
they're not just like a one-hit wonder.
Bands like Green Day continuously pump out good album
after good album. People are always interested in them.
I feel like the 1975 could do that.
- Because they're so self-aware, again,
I think that they probably know exactly what they're doing
and how they're going to continue to be successful.
- (both) Thanks for watching the first episode
of College Kids React.
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- Thanks for watching. Bye, guys!
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