1975: 10 Songs You Need To Hear Before Their New Album Drops
4. Love It If We Made It
The expression "difficult third album" is not in The 1975's vocabulary, because their third album was their best yet.
A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships topped the charts in the UK and breached the top five in America, continuing the success the band had had there with their second record.
There are several stunning tracks on this album, but its centerpiece is the band's epic observation on the modern world - "Love It If We Made It".
This emphatic statement on life in this age uses sex, drugs, climate change, and real tweets from Donald Trump to paint a harrowingly-accurate picture of the position we find ourselves in today.
From the moment those first few synth beats kick in to those phenomenal opening lyrics to the moment the bridge explodes into a staggering final section, this song is angry, sad, and brutally honest.
All whilst somehow conforming to the rules of pop music.
How dare they. How dare these four long-haired layabouts from Manchester go from "Chocolate" to this in just five years. It is completely unbelievable and testament to the pure skill these young musicians posses.
There's no doubt about it; "Love It If We Made It" will go down as one of the anthems of this generation.
A masterpiece.