“Love Me” by 1975

The 1975 announced their second album, I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful yet So Unaware of It, with "Love Me" in October 2015, and it's the sound of a band that got famous and decided to poke fun at the whole business while enjoying every minute. Written a couple of years earlier as they found their feet in a scene where fame worked like money, it both celebrates and scolds the ego trip, with Matty Healy chopping his lines into staccato bursts.

Musically they went hunting in the '80s, citing Trevor Horn, Frankie Goes to Hollywood and Oingo Boingo: a tangle of guitars and synths, a period saxophone, cowbells and a guitar solo, all of it far poppier than their usual ambient haze. Critics reached for Bowie and Prince. Mike Crossey produced with George Daniel and Healy, and Diane Martel's video sets the band among cardboard cutouts of celebrities.

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