“You might not get the woman, however you’ve at all times acquired your boys,” Matty Healy wrote on Instagram
Lengthy dwell The 1975. Within the music video for the band’s all-consuming love track “Oh Caroline,” a deep minimize from their fifth studio album Being Humorous in a Overseas Language, a grand romance runs its course, however the four-piece’s adoration for each other endures with out expiration.
The video footage frontman Matty Healy as an outdated man, all grey hair hooked up to an getting old physique that doesn’t transfer prefer it used to, channeling the times of his youth in an empty ballroom. When he spins round, strumming his cane like a guitar, he’s transported again to his time on stage together with his finest mates guitarist Adam Hann, bassist Ross MacDonald, and drummer George Daniel.
It was there, in entrance of a neon signal studying “At Their Very Greatest,” that Healy encountered the co-author of his however-brief love story, twirling her all through the room to the tune of his personal track. Because the video weaves out and in of the previous and future, the singer’s nice love disappears, and he’s left dancing all on his personal. Nonetheless, he remembers the entire strikes from the frilly choreography they constructed collectively. In an alternate universe, that is how La La Land ended.
When she slips away for good, and he can’t return to the previous, he settles for the consolation of his bandmates. On stage as soon as once more, in entrance of the identical neon stage, Daniel’s drumstick lifts mud off of his set. They’re shifting a bit slower, however they’ve nonetheless acquired it. Ultimately, they settle round a eating desk for espresso and, for Healy, a cigarette. He nonetheless doesn’t like menthols.
“You might not get the woman,” the frontman wrote on Instagram. “However you’ve at all times acquired your boys.”