The 1975 Announce North American Tour, Share New Single “Happiness”
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The one and only 1975 have found “Happiness,” the latest single from their forthcoming album Being Funny in a Foreign Language (Oct. 14, Dirty Hit). Matty Healy and company have also set a fall North American tour, titled the At Their Very Best Tour.
“Happiness” is our second preview of Being Funny in a Foreign Language after lead single “Part of the Band,” which Paste just ranked among July’s best songs. The 1975 recorded their Notes on a Conditional Form follow-up with producer Jack Antonoff. 2023 will mark the band’s 20th anniversary.
Speaking to Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1 on Wednesday, Healy said of “Happiness”:
“Happiness” is like … there’s literally loads of us in the room on that track. Locked eyes … it doesn’t really have much structure. It came through like jamming. And we haven’t done that in years. So we just wanted this record to be really, like, a captured moment and not be too constructed [or] even produced that much … We did it in like a day or so. And it’s us having fun. And I think that there’s this real desire in art to see something remarkable with as little technology as possible. Do you know what I mean? Like, you don’t need, like, Paul Thomas Anderson to direct a hundred meters. Do you know what I mean?