Regardless of how you feel about the band/Matty Healy, you gotta give it up for Ryan here. Fantastic essay, Ryan.

If a Cobain falls in a forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a Peep?

Based on your 2018 recs I have to say your seal of approval is the surest sign this album is complete garbage.

https://youtu.be/dyihQtBes1I

“I’m a fan of rap music, but most of it is so misogynist that I can’t even deal with it”

Not much has changed in 27 years

I’m confused. He says that he respects the genre, that he’s not in to it being appropriated by white people, and that he also can’t stomach a lot of it cause of how misogynistic it is. That seems like a fair assessment no?

I think the cringing is for the interviewer, not the interviewee.

Depends on the amount of lube in my experience.

“So wait, their terrible last album is actually the good one? (Fuck it, I don’t want to live in this world anymore)”

You feeding them song titles certainly isn’t helping matters.

Puzzle? What bloody puzzle? Fuck! What a team! Annie and Sherlock!

She’s a paedophile. I ain’t give a shit what she thinks anymore.

Oi! Annie Wilkes, piss off you psycho bitch!

“Hard to decide whether worst #2 or worst #4 is worse to me personally…”

Are you Taylor’s umber whunnnn fayunnnn?

Ah, one of the regulars. Fuck off please.

“It must’ve been an absolute headfuck to live through the summer of 1969.”

I know. When I look back now, that summer seemed to last forever.