The 1975 - ATPOAIM: Still … at their very best (Episode 4)

[@meep3709]

Hi box band I love you even though you make my life horrifically stressful sometimes

[@aidafani5071]

The truest truth

[@luana5946]

For real

[@westomas]

😂😂😂

[@GeoD4444]

This felt as a critique about fake naturalness. The grass and the bonsai both should be imperfect because they’re part of nature, yet they’re grown in a lab and cut to milimetric perfection. Maybe a nod about how culture wants us to, you know “just be ourselves” as in “be natural”, but also wants us to be perfect according to its standards. You’re all free of thinking something completely different from me, and Mattys intent may be something way different from what we all interpret, that’s the beauty of art.

[@MrsYleah75]

Think you have this spot on, he writes something in French that translates to “poetry is in the streets” which is from LIWMI. That just represents all you have just pointed out.

[@Chase_AM]

@@MrsYleah75The phrase has been part of the bands ethos since well before LIIWMI, so it was cool to see it used in the song when it came out.

[@Silverblood113]

To go along with what you said, this piece seems to have a theme of "synthetic authenticity" - Matty wakes up in a warehouse, changes in front of us, dresses in front of us, makes coffee in front of us, all in wide, uncut long shots. The setting is so sterile, so clinical, so engineered, however, that little about the character's true self can be learned. It's almost as though Matty is poking fun at the authenticity he himself has so carefully displayed since the end of the ILIWYS era and going to rehab. This ties into the larger theme of "A theatrical performance of an intimate moment:" there is an eternal tension between true intimacy and public display, and dancing along that razor's edge, thinking about that tension, seems to be where Matty has been spending a lot of his time.

[@GeoD4444]

@@Silverblood113 sureee, It feels really in tune with the whole point of ATPOAIM and its weird meta comment of it being a film about authenticity when you can clearly see Matty rehearsing his lines for fan interactions and the several takes of Adam entering the room. All of this while, as you said, it goes even more meta with Mattys life going through those lines of synthetic authenticity

[@boogermaiden]

Be yourself but according to society's standards. 🙃

[@Kelzo_sweetie]

When he put Truman Black in the bio hazard. And then almost falling off the trolley 💀💀💀 Love the video. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@henrietta9394]

Does that mean him deleting his insta is all part of this performance 🫣

[@debbiebarcomb3877]

The way he smokes 😢😢😢

[@rxwannnnn2629]

@@henrietta9394 he only used Truman black as a name because of how famous is mum is. He didn’t want to use his real name online because of the press. Maybe some sort of hidden meaning behind him throwing it away🤨

[@moshlyfe]

The concept of making it look like Matty is hard at work doing some scientific research only to reveal that he was just growing grass to kneel on for one picture is really funny to me. I love the symbolism.

[@manan-543]

​@@ajewishchristianmuslimwhat can u expect from two fools who can't even respect another country's culture and traditions and have no consideration for people who lost money in the festival.

[@rachellemilo]

The lore with this band istg I’ll never get sick of it

[@amybishop8725]

throwing away the online persona to “touch grass.” Iconic

[@madelynfennewald8068]

super iconic if only he would like... actually throw away the online persona

[@marielalayoutube]

'' Être touché par la grâce '' as we say in french.

[@Sanguine_Poet]

light and dark, good and bad, perfectionism, growth, growing up, inner child thats what it all represents to me

[@beth1446]

I am genuinely so devastated, I've only just found the 1975. I wish so much that I had followed them from the beginning :( Their music has been the soundtrack to my life but I've only just discovered who they are. Their songs I've heard and loved for years but never put the two together... strangely. It's like I wasn't supposed to know them until now. It feels all very 'invisible string theory'.

[@juliafrey5971]

Same!! I wish I could have experienced growing up with them… lived through all their album releases, milestones with them

[@kayleecork]

OMG THROWING AWAY THE TRUMAN BLACK COAT IM GONNA CRY

[@CoffinEmily]

This tour will be insane

[@qwtpancisn]

THE 1975 ALWAYS GIVES US ART!

[@Zachcolyer]

I do think their next album will be called a theatrical performance of an intimate moment

[@kamiikamira]

This is art, I can't believe I'm even alive to witness this. Truly blessed

[@vickyxleigh]

I don't know what any of these visuals mean, therefore they must be genius

[@bethanyc4305]

How did we go from fancy hotels in New York to this

[@williamgrimshaw4063]

im looking forward to understanding this

[@_LozFromOz]

And he DOES make art thank you very MUCH!

[@marianelossjardim8071]

i think it all comes back to the whole concept of bfifl, where matty stated that the album was about doing what they know best, being a band and making music, the same goes here, matty going back to being matty and not trumanblack anymore, and taking control of the whole narrative returning to their roots and doing what they do best, making music and being a band.

[@mystic7934]

The takeaway i get from the hydroponic growth is that it’s a metaphor for this age of technology. Life being experienced almost superficially through social media, growing from indoors rather than naturally outside

[@jasminaulovic3533]

He’s breathing clean oxygen when he wakes up and then goes to the lab and grows trees that gives us oxygen

[@nothannsmum]

Matty tending to his own grass. This is beautifully cute guys. Love the somebody else vibes ♥️

[@vyshnaitee]

since matty is chronically online i think it's about him trying "to go outside and touch some grass" which in his case is impossible to do in peace because of his fame. grass grown in the lab being just as artificial as his on-stage persona was - calculated, yet expanded in seconds unexpectedly.

[@tommywang8229]

4:10 Why it feels like the opening scene for “Somebody Else” music video.

[@Aiur]

TOUCH GRASS - THE 1975

[@random0693]

sniffa

[@VoiceOfPedramito]

Perfect

[@mortgages3533]

That 13/8 jazz hit different rn 😂😭

[@marzmarley2748]

Please add Notes songs to the setlist, Covid got that tour canceled for me & that album is amazing!

[@vivianalizama4411]

I'm so used to seeing this man getting dressed and undress that I feel that we live together at this point

[@jerlong4422]

Fantastic comment, so true! Even know the specific way he puts on his socks at this stage 🤣

[@holly289]

rest in peace truman back, gone but not forgotten

[@chrismcgoudas]

thank you matt, very cool

[@kyraclarke3559]

jesus christ those pants fit him so damn good

[@clairemca22]

‘Poetry in the streets’

[@constancebaldini]

« La poésie est dans la rue », i hope the upcoming album will plumb the depths of that reference. Music is such an interesting medium to share intellectual, cultural thoughts (+ it’s nice to have a little bit of french here and there)

[@lori9120]

I see all of the environmental, sustainability, minimalism, simplicity, and grounded roots references. I love this guys 🥰❤️👏

[@Becky-tx7fv]

Work of art. Man doesn’t need to speak to capture us! The sound track the cinematography. It’s giving hunny I shrunk the kids vibes 😂

[@TessJordan-lp5sc]

"Be natural" while being under intense scrutiny.

[@loveRaquel]

The drill 'bit' was my favorite 😉🖤 I hope everyone appreciates the emotion and energy of the music. If you feel music, it suits it quite well, dare i say perfectly. The beginning is a little critical, anxious, and monotonously determined? Then the morning vibe hits, this is how i feel making my coffee before tending to my plants, like when the mood is good, then that first sip hits. It jumpstarts my soul, and its time to do the damn thing. The singing to himself is cute 😊 why does the melody feel so familiar i cant put my finger on it. So then the music hits where hes working tediously, perfecting it all. Its all moving along, the music is too. Still a little repetitive bc the work is too. And another la poésie est dans en le rue easter egg. Love itttt. This mad scientist is just wants us all to appreciate the arts around us as much as he does. Im with it. The music is determined and moving along some more. Then, after some silent waiting and some self entertainment and the drill 'bit', the music comes back in, fluttering, unsure, "is this it?" moment ? Then a quick reflection on the work, and hope we all appreciate the art surrounding us, the music is light, wonderous, and beautiful to match. I love this 🖤🖤

[@Bleaxz6584]

As if they can be anything than their best they are so consistent that ill listen to any of their albums and it feels like listening to a collection of memories like they become an anthology thats what makes a great band apposed to a great album or hit single they can really just make this augmentation of anemoia that conveys you to a differnt side of our hippocampus

[@cecivargas7625]

I NEED A LATAM TOUR PLEASE😩

[@viernesenvenus]

we need

[@LenaIvanisevic-os2ou]

the amount of videos we have of just matty getting dressed, going back to when they first started getting bigger is acc pretty funny considering all hes doing is putting on clothes

[@onlyavss]

on the note he wrote “poetry is in the streets” in french. love it if we made it reference????

[@TheRoomAgency]

That quote is featured in many of their videos, on walls, scratched in cars. You can find it you look closely haha

[@onlyavss]

@@TheRoomAgency ohhh

[@marcos_98.]

amazing soundtrack

[@ipatemihnea3255]

what songs are featured please help i love this type of jazz

[@YoitsKendahl]

im so excited... it will be my 11th and 12th time seeing the 1975!!!!! my favorite band forever

[@Hunnydew]

as a chem major I can appreciate the lab glassware usage … pretty sick coffee set up if you ask me

[@juliengmusic]

i love the jazz music!

[@melamue19]

The best one yet ❤

[@bluhoneymoon]

1975 lore makes my brain hurt

[@pea1975]

god i’m in love with matty

[@ad-zx4iv]

box band back at it again once again

[@Alexis-yw3hg]

I do make art, thank you very much!

[@shayleemasilunas3363]

Can’t wait🎉

[@themamba5837]

The best there is. The best there was... and the best there ever will be.

[@henrietta9394]

That coffee was a like a gcse chemistry practical

[@husna8294]

😂

[@epiphany5546]

STILL AT THEIR VERY BEST!! ALWAYS

[@varoprats_erodprati]

As indecipherable as all contemporary art, that is usually an enigma but causes a big impression on us, so it must be ART indeed...

[@gracepark9085]

Basically this is really refreshing to a musicians with some touch of art I LOVE THE 1975 THIS IS REALLY A NEW ERA💙💙💙💙😉 Matty rockstar is out Matty Botanist is in 😆

[@epiphany5546]

Rip Truman Black, hello Matty… we love you 🫶🏻

[@MixerHaven1975]

I got tingles when he put on his spectacles ❤

[@nela8456]

This is Art omg 🖤. there is so much in this video, details always amaze me✨️

[@goldrushstt2458]

COME TO LATAM PLEASEEEEE

[@user-ol3mn4yw7h]

dEADASS I

[@102mila]

he touched grass❤️

[@kathdavis8059]

All this reminds me of The people Show (London) earlier fringe Theatre shows with George Khan, Jose Nava, Rojas, Mark Long, Emile Volk et al! ❤️ 😊

[@BandCalledTheSleep]

So, he picked up the Matty coat because he’s going to be himself in this era, rather than the character of Truman Black? Is that why his Insta is down?

[@amoe163]

His instagram has been back for two days already

[@bayleyasher]

@@amoe163and it returned to post this -- the statement is unstable; TrumanBlack returned to post the theatrical death of TrumanBlack. There is no outside the troll

[@Lady_206]

You guys better drop dates for Latinamerica ):

[@abigailcunningham1584]

The atpoaim series could be pointing to a wider theme of critical versus emotional engagement. Until this video, we've seen a performance of the band's intimate off-stage lives and then we are presented with this video which is full of gestus and allegory. This new aesthetic for satvb perhaps is playing with how we treat music seated in popculture compared to wider circles of art. The complex layering of themes (some personal some addressing wider culture) is forcing our viewership to be critical of what we see rather than how the art makes us feel. We are encouraged to address how we consume rather than if we think it's good and why we like it. The v-effekt is a beautiful device that is about to have the 1975 audience in a chokehold.

[@boogermaiden]

What's a V-effekt?

[@lils7818]

@@boogermaiden it’s basically breaking the fourth wall to irritate spectators in the audience and alienate them from the illusion that they are just watching, not partaking. The German playwright Bertolt Brecht called it the Verfremdungseffekt or v-effect in one of his works in the 1930s.

[@boogermaiden]

@@lils7818 I love breaking the fourth wall! Also I love artists who irritate their viewers! 😂

[@boogermaiden]

@@lils7818 thanks!

[@mebosstory9557]

Reminds me of the intro to the Supertramp and David Guilmore song Brother where you bound.

[@thePastafarian88]

The reddit is gonna have so much fun with this one

[@rachelh3030]

im so drunk rn i love matty w my whole heart \

[@swimlaps1]

A day with a Botanist, + jazz!

[@japhiahuhndorf3106]

Not Matty putting the Truman Black lab coat in the biohazard bin

[@luana5946]

Still here

[@barbaragaarciiia]

I fucking love this band

[@marielam1712]

omg I have the exact same coffee grinder

[@kmlynn19]

Art and Metaphors💕💕💕

[@YOURRACHINAPRIL]

Dang, I love it cause of the grass color

[@user-lg3yj2fz2j]

beautiful visuals

[@shinsenshogun900]

Oi Jesse, we gonna brew some plants into cocoa bean powdered beverages and stroll across the continent mate! We’ll be having some good chemistry as I stock up my coffee collection ’ere!

[@keiswift7637]

The art and the legend

[@DingoNwonderland]

This made my day :)

[@charlessaunders-rv4gq]

Simple...Elegant...Thought provoking...He's definitely in a class all by himself! One of the few acts around today that I must enjoy live...Soon!

[@theblueboats]

There’s just so much foreshadowing I can’t handle it

[@jaclyn7988]

I think him living in a glass ware house was intentional symbolism for all the hate he had been getting. “The saying "people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones" is used to say that people who have faults should not criticize other people for having the same faults.”

[@mar5737]

THROWING OUT THE TRUMAN BLACK COAT OMFG

[@stephaniegavnoudias427]

this is so deep and meaningful fr

[@sheilasimmons9394]

Fantastico!💕

[@austinduran3557]

Matty should play Edward sizzorhands

[@itsisaachenry]

I’m still… very excited lol

[@CoffinEmily]

I’m so excited!

[@marianelossjardim8071]

this is how you announce a tour

[@AnnieCarpenter-p7i]

💚

[@paradise_valley]

Longest Matty's gone without speaking 😂😅

[@Girllikestacey]

So quirky. Matty is so incredibly clever, love these episodes. ❤

[@jacquelineadams6563]

Looks like im moving to north america!

[@fcast228]

and I will be there

[@taylerbossie6034]

Hope y’all are cookin up new music in that lab too 🫨

[@jhynx2081]

he created the powerpuff girls

[@nm1983]

Very smart!

[@chloehewittx]

Babe wake up. The 1975 have dropped the new episode of atpoaim

[@PaulaHeartland]

So good. (and...no cigs.. I want Matty healthy for a long time)

[@YOURRACHINAPRIL]

We have the same alarm clock sound!