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Matty Healy photographed by Alex Sainsbury for Clash Magazine (2013)

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© photos: Jordan Curtis Hughes, diymag 

TURN ON. TUNE IN. DROP OUT: THE 1975

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Matty Healy and Timothée Chalamet

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Matty plays Over/Under with Pitchfork

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“Sometimes I forget that I’m talking to a lot more people than I think.”

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when the 1975 said [instrumental] I really felt that

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Matty Healy in “Robbers” by The 1975 - for @monicamelancolie

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matty healy + hugging people in TOOTIMETOOTIMETOOTIME.

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Hello I was wondering if u could tell me what all of mattys tattoos mean

sure! he has 15 that we know of… lets start from the head and make our way down…..

1. wabi sabi on gum/lower lip (once it helaed the “wabi” has kind of disappeared lol) // meaning: wabi sabi represents a comprehensive Japanese world view or aesthetic centered on the acceptance of transience and imperfection. The aesthetic is sometimes described as one of beauty that is “imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete” 

2. deer on left outer bicep/upper arm // no known meaning, i think this is one of the ones that he got at the tattoo shop next to george’s house that doesn’t really mean anything to him, he says in the shazam interview “I grew up next to a tattoo shop, one opened next to George’s house when we were 16, so we just moved in there and let people practice on our legs and stuff. So my legs are covered in insignificant tattoos that don’t mean anything.”

3. allerton on right inner bicep // meaning: reference to the character gene allerton from william s. burroughs’ book Queer, allerton is the love interest of the protagonist Lee (who is burroughs talking about himself in the 3rd person) - see shazam interview 

4. annie/true love on chest // meaning: for his nana who died in 2013 (he also talks about it in the shazam interview, “My nana hated all of my tattoos, she made me promise that I would never get a tattoo of her when she died, and then about 16 hours after she died I got the tattoo on my chest.. I’m not messin around Nana.”)

5. love in script above right elbow // meaning: just love?? haha i mean i think it’s self explanatory 

6. anchor below right elbow // meaning: same as love, just an anchor? haha idk

7. mortal kombat logo on right forearm // meaning: matty loves video games and was obsessed with mortal kombat when he was a kid/teenager

8. 1975 on right forearm // meaning: for the band, he talks about it in this interview “We were told by some people in the industry that we couldn’t call the band The 1975 because there’s never been a band that’s been big that’s just been number and I said that that’s a red rag to a bull and then tattooed it on my arm.”

9. we are kings on left hip/lower torso // meaning: lyric from their old song “wolves”

10. girl/tiger/shield thing on shin // meaning: insignificant one i think

11. something on the back of his left leg, i can never tell what it is // meaning: again i think one of the insignificant ones

12. rose above left ankle on left side of leg // meaning: i think one of those insignificant ones he talked about

13. cross above left ankle on right side of leg // meaning: insignificant

14. denise on right foot // meaning: for his mom denise

15. timothy on left foot // meaning: for his dad tim

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Matty Healy for gusher magazine by Isabella Trimboli

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somebody else // the 1975

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MATTY HEALY 11/24/19 IN TAMPA (@kalgoestoconcerts on Instagram)

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our love has gone cold you’re intertwining your soul with somebody else

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if you’re too shy (let me know) // the 1975

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If You’re Too Shy (Let Me Know) // The 1975

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The 1975 - If You’re Too Shy (Let Me Know)