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“Love It If We Made It” by 1975
From the album A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships (2018)
“Love It If We Made It” by 1975 appears on 6 radio countdowns from 5 stations between 2018 and 2024. It was first released in 2018 on the album A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships. Its best result is #10 on the 91X Top 91 Songs of 2019. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #101 alternative song of 2018.
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The 1975 put "Love It If We Made It" out in July 2018 as the second taste of A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships, and it plays like a news ticker set on fire. George Daniel had the music sketched as far back as 2015. Matty Healy spent 2016 to 2018 hoarding tabloid headlines to use as lyrics, found the result too funny, and started over, boiling a volatile couple of years down with Prince's "Sign o' the Times" as his model.
What came out is a mid-tempo electro-rock ballad of harp-like arpeggios and disco riffs, with Healy shouting, screaming and half-rapping his way past the national anthem protests, Alan Kurdi's death, Lil Peep's death and the Access Hollywood tape, the London Community Gospel Choir behind him. Daniel and Healy produced it. The New York Times and Pitchfork both named it the best song of 2018, and it won the Ivor Novello for Best Contemporary Song.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 38 | 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana | 91X Top 91 Songs of 2018 | 91 |
| 2018 | 84 | The Buzz Burlington, VT / Plattsburgh, NY / Montreal, QC | The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 2018 | 99 |
| 2018 | 45 | X96 Salt Lake City, UT | X96 Top 50 Songs of 2018 | 50 |
| 2019 | 10 | 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana | 91X Top 91 Songs of 2019 | 91 |
| 2019 | 45 | 102.7 WEQX Southern Vermont and the Capital District of New York (Albany) | WEQX Top 102.7 of 2019 | 103 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 872 | WXPN | WXPN The 885 Greatest Songs of the 21st Century (2024) | 885 |
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