{"id":96884,"date":"2022-10-14T12:21:58","date_gmt":"2022-10-14T12:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/the-1975-being-funny-in-a-foreign-language-review-a-surprising-but-welcome-paring-back-pop-and-rock\/"},"modified":"2022-10-14T12:21:58","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T12:21:58","slug":"the-1975-being-funny-in-a-foreign-language-review-a-surprising-but-welcome-paring-back-pop-and-rock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/the-1975-being-funny-in-a-foreign-language-review-a-surprising-but-welcome-paring-back-pop-and-rock\/","title":{"rendered":"The 1975: Being Funny in a Foreign Language review \u2013 a surprising but welcome paring back | pop and rock"},"content":{"rendered":"
TO<\/span><\/span>arlier this year, the 1975, Britain’s most divisive arena-dwelling band, caused a minor ripple of controversy while announcing their fifth album. The problem wasn’t the very-online frontman Matty Healy’s shenanigans on Twitter \u2013 after quitting the app in 2020, he has since returned without a blue tick, but with a bio that reads \u201cdeleted once I’m verified\u201d \u2013 or the fact they had ditched the self-produced route of their previous work in favor of pop’s go-to producer, Jack Antonoff. The problem was the length of the record itself. News articles were cobbled together showing tweets from fans bemoaning the fact that Being Funny in a Foreign Language’s svelte 11-track, 43-minute run time is about half that of 2020’s sprawling Notes on a Conditional Form. \u201cIt’s so short nooooo\u201d ran one tweet.<\/span><\/p>\n