Concert Review The 1975 Are Electric Sugar

         Electric Sugar is my charming code for what the 1975 are in concert. I got to see them in Barclays last week, and was left dumbfounded by this immensely followed, talented band that gets rare radio play. Their music is instantly likable and lyrics completely memorable. They are like a lightning flash of candy dropped into your mouth that zooms your adrenaline rush to the moon. A dramatic analogy merited for this theatrical band.

The 1975 – The Sound
                                                        The Sound by 1975

         For all their bubblegum sounds and lighting, they promote a tender, in your face mentality: love me or leave me. They feel like a contemporary image of 90’s boy bands with and 80’s sound.  They have that an electric- pop dance vibe of the 80’s, but an appearance that reminds you of the feelings you use to get when NSYNC or Backstreet Boys would strike the stage. Moreover, their addition of the saxophone will give any song a sultry appeal. You go from dancing to prancing when that sax hits. In addition, I have never seen such amazing, vivid lighting. It almost made their concert feel like two shows were happening at once. Vibrant colors and fluid streams of images dash throughout the stage to make it seem as if you have a entered a happy, fantasy world. Hence, they have an innate ability to make the sweetness of sound feel and be seen as pleasurable.

        There is a sexual confidence to frontman Matthew Healy. If God had a chemistry lab for lead singers in bands than Healy is basically his mastered formula. First, he has the “drama” factor that helps him emotionally act his songs. He approaches them like, they were proses from Shakespeare, which gives elegance to the “teenage” feel they can have. His dance moves are like sensual glides through the air. Yet, it is his hair that is the secret weapon. As he tosses and tussles it throughout songs, you wonder if you have ever seen more illustrious hair. There was not one person who did not want to find real estate in his curls and live there forever. You might find this to be a weird anecdote, but “hairography”, the choreography of  hair,  is a real thing and a powerful image tool. Lush hair is always an attractive factor. When you see it perfectly coifed and bouncing, you want to touch it and, maybe, even take it and put it on your head. Garnier has made a literal empire out of commercials where hair does not look like regular strings on your head but golden ones. Thus, his hair became an oddly magnetic, musically rhetorical move of attraction to his stage presence. Healy also drank and smoked on stage which, when added with his piercing heavy-blue dapper suit, made him look like a modern take on a 1950’s way of cool.
The 1975 – UGH!

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The 1975 – Somebody Else (Official Video)

Somebody Else