10 Artists Who Totally Ripped Off The Arctic Monkeys

While The 1975 and Arctic Monkeys are wildly different in terms of musical genres, it's difficult to deny the lyrical similarities between the bands, with both Alex Turner and Matty Healy preferring to tell tangential stories through their songs rather than following the almost detached verse-chorus-verse structure present in most rock and pop songs since the forms' genesis.

Healey has also compared his band to Arctic Monkeys, claiming to have succeeded the Sheffield band (which he dubbed "the band of the '00s") in terms of their place in British cultural consciousness. While this might indicate the world-beating ambition the bands share, the similarities don't end there.

2018's "Tranquility Base..." and The 1975's "Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships" (released just a few months later) share similar themes about the intrusion of technology into our lives and relationships. Though the two megaliths explore these themes in very different ways, the thematic preoccupation of the records is too obvious to deny.