Love Me

## Music video

**"Love Me"** is a song by the English rock band The 1975, released as the lead single from their second album, *I like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it*, on 8 October 2015 through Dirty Hit. The song was also included on the soundtrack of the 2018 film *Love, Simon*.

## Background

*"It came from jamming. We're big Talking Heads fans, big Scritti Politti fans, and Japan as well. "Love Me" was just three years of being on the road and not wanting to soundcheck the same song every night. That riff just happened. "Love Me" sounded bombastic and ridiculous and a bit arrogant and I was like, "That's what it needs to be about. The rock star buying into his own self-constructed mythology." We found ourselves, as a band, being immersed in a world we didn't feel part of. So it's just… love me, if that's what you want to do."*
"Love Me" is about rejecting superficiality of fame and embracing the fans. The song’s genesis took place shortly before The 1975’s first show at the Brixton Academy in January of 2014.

As the lead single for the band’s sophomore album, "Love Me" premiered during Annie Mac’s Hottest Record on BBC Radio 1. During its premiere, frontman Matty Healy explained that the song referred to their narcissistic nature in regard to their rise to fame and expressed how they want to evolve with their fans.

He also told NME that it’s about "a lack of self awareness":

*"The way I address [our fans] is by giving them the benefit of the doubt and assuming that they’re in on the joke. I’m making an observation on the glaringly obvious superficial elements that surround my life and the culture that I feed into."*
## Lyrics

And hey, would you like to look outside sometimes? (No!)

I'm just with my friends online

And there's things we'd like to change

(Oh! Yeah)

Next thing you'll find you're reading 'bout yourself on a plane, fame, what a shame (Oh!)

Well, just keep looking, looking, looking, looking!

And love me (Yeah)

If that's what you wanna do, oh (Yeah? No)

And love me (Yeah)

If that's what you wanna do, oh (Yeah? No)

You've been reading 'bout yourself on a plane, fame for a change

Caught up in fashion, Karcrashian panache

And a bag of bash for passion

You got a beautiful face, but got nothing to say (Oh!)

"You look famous, let's be friends

And portray we possess something important

And do the things we'd like"

"We've just come to represent

A decline in the standards of what we accept!"

Yeah, yeah, yeah? No

And love me (Yeah, oh)

If that's what you wanna do, oh (Yeah? No)

And love me (Love me, yeah)

If that's what you wanna do, oh (Yeah? No)

[Interlude]

Oh, so sack off your calendar, give it to the people

Be the man that gets them up on their feet

Say "Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh"

And love me (Yeah)

Oh (Yeah? No)

And love me (Yeah)

If that's what you wanna do (Oh, yeah)

## Personnel

* **Publishing:** Good Soldier Records
* **Label:** Vagrant Records, Dirty Hit, Interscope Records
* **Composition:** George Daniel, Matthew Healy, Ross MacDonald, and Adam Hann
* **Additional vocals:** George Daniel
* **Keyboard:** George Daniel, Matthew Healy
* **Synthesizer:** George Daniel
* **Guitar:** Adam Hann, Matthew Healy
* **Mastering:** Chris Gehringer
* **Engineering:** Jonathan Gilmore
* **Mixing:** Mike Crossey
* **Bass:** Ross MacDonald
* **Vocals:** Matthew Healy
* **Programming:** Jonathan Gilmore, Mike Crossey, George Daniel
* **Drums:** George Daniel

## References

1. ↑ https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/6858333/the-1975-new-album-matt-healy-interview
2. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ds6pO2eptKE?t=1m23s