English singer-songwriter Matty Healy has written and produced songs delving on themes like the millennial generation, masculinity, internet culture, social and political issues as well as his own life and relationships.
[7] He has written, produced and performed tracks on all of the 1975's EPs — Facedown (2012), Sex (2012), Music for Cars (2013), IV (2013) — and studio albums — The 1975 (2013), I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful yet So Unaware of It (2016), A Brief Inquiry into Online Relationships (2018), Notes on a Conditional Form (2020), Being Funny in a Foreign Language (2022).
His musical eclecticism[11][12] is accompanied by lyrics that are "complex, clever, [and] catchy" streams of consciousness and tongue-twisters,[13][14][15] in addition to being "topical, explicit, and relentlessly self-referential.
"[16] Healy has been called by Consequence as "rock's poet laureate of heartbreak, growing up, and fucking up,"[17] with NME stating that he is "undoubtedly, one of this generation's finest wordsmiths.
[19][20] The New York Times described him as "one of the best contemporary writers — especially outside of rap — on the process of consumption, whether it's drugs or culture or goods".