10 Love Songs That Are Actually Incredibly Dark

If the 1975 started off as just your average pop rock band, their second album is where they really leaned into the pop side of their sound. Gone were the days of some jagged guitar work on songs like Sex, going for something a bit more larger than life and evocative on songs like Love Me and Change of Heart. Matty Healy definitely tears his own heart to shreds through most of the project, but Paris is where things start to mellow out just a little bit.

So far in the project, we've already gotten bits and pieces of when Matty was at his weakest, like doubting himself on songs like If I Believe You or bringing himself to the edge of sanity on songs like Lostmyhead. As Paris starts playing though, you can hear him trying to look back on this old flame, with the idyllic city lights shining down on them. That was the past though, and the verses of this song tell a much different story, talking about how he's just a waste of space in women's clothes and how his lover has a nihilist boyfriend and romanticizes heroin on the side.

Even with all of the chaos that surrounds them, they still have that one subtle memory of the time in Paris, willing to give everything they can to experience that moment just one more time. Getting to Paris at this rate might not even be possible anymore, but it's always nice to dream of a better place, right?