“If You're Too Shy (Let Me Know)” by 1975

The 1975 had fans hooked on "If You're Too Shy (Let Me Know)" months before it came out, thanks to clips of the band playing it that spread across social media; it finally landed in 2020 as the sixth single from Notes on a Conditional Form, their fourth studio album. George Daniel and Matty Healy produced it with Jonathan Gilmore and went maximal, a retro swirl of synths, funk, techno and dance music, with FKA twigs singing operatic backing vocals in the ambient intro, Rashawn Ross on trumpet and flugelhorn and Bob Reynolds taking a sax solo in the bridge.

Under the gloss, Healy sings about getting obsessed with a woman he meets online. Critics reached for John Hughes soundtracks, Tears for Fears and Duran Duran, and it became the band's highest-charting UK single yet, peaking at 14.

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