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Matty Healy’s 5 most teeth-gritting moments

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Diluting all of Matty Healy’s contradictions into one hulking great outpouring of hope and despair, Love It If We Made It is possibly The 1975’s greatest song to date: “modernity has failed us,” it grandly declares. As well as alluding to police brutality against Black men, and sportspeople ‘taking the knee’ as a symbolic act of anti-racist protest, the lyrics quote Donald Trump’s now-infamous taped comments during filming for Access Hollywood in 2005, and reference Kanye West’s support of the former US president. "’I moved on her like a bitch,’ excited to be indicted,” Healy sings, “Unrequited house with seven pools, ‘Thank you, Kanye, very cool’".