Somebody Else

## Music video

 **"Somebody Else"** is a song by English rock band the 1975 from their second studio album, *I like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it* (2016). It was released as a single on 15 February 2016. Reaching a peak of number five in the US on the Alternative Songs chart, it is the band's highest-peaking single on that chart to date. It also reached number 55 in the UK and number 34 in Australia. NME named it the second best song of 2016. Pitchfork listed the song on their ranking of the 100 best songs of 2016 at number 74. The song also appears on the soundtrack to the 2016 film *The Edge of Seventeen*.

## Background

"Somebody Else" explores the complicated feelings stirred by a past lover taking up with someone new.

The official music video depicts frontman Matty Healy’s experiences with two women, who end up turning into him. Perhaps the song means to imply that one must love themselves first before loving someone else. As the song begins, the video shifts its tone by moving into color footage. Healy tries to deal with heartbreak on a night alone, by crying, drinking, dancing and eventually having sex with a stripper in the backseat of an automobile. Towards the end, Healy seems to come to his senses and realizes that not only is he hallucinating most of his interactions with others in these situations, but that some of the other people are copies of himself (in the case of the stripper, he finds himself alone in the backseat, stroking his own face and chest). The video was based on a story that Healy wrote.

The song officially premiered on Zane Lowe’s World Record on Beats Radio 1 on February 15th, 2016. It was released as the fourth single from The 1975’s sophomore album, *I like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it*.

The official lyrics were posted to the band’s Twitter on the day of the song’s premiere.

## Lyrics

So I heard you found somebody else

And at first, I thought it was a lie

I took all my things that make sounds

The rest I can do without

I don't want your body

But I hate to think about you with somebody else

Our love has gone cold

You're intertwining your soul with somebody else

I'm looking through you

While you're looking through your phone

And then leaving with somebody else

No, I don't want your body

But I'm picturing your body with somebody else (Else, else...)

I don't want your body, I don't want your body

I don't want your body, I don't want your body

I don't want your body, I don't want your body

I don't want your body, I don't want your body

And c'mon baby (I know)

This ain't the last time that I'll see your face

And c'mon baby (I know)

You said you'd find someone to take my place (Place, place)

I just don't believe that you have got it in you

'Cause we are just gonna keep “Doin' it” and every time

I start to believe in anything you're saying

I'm reminded that I should be gettin' over it

I don't want your body

But I hate to think about you with somebody else

Our love has gone cold

You're intertwining your soul with somebody else

I'm looking through you

While you're looking through your phone

And then leaving with somebody else

No, I don't want your body

But I'm picturing your body with somebody else (Else, else...)

I don't want your body, I don't want your body

I don't want your body, I don't want your body

I don't want your body, I don't want your body

I don't want your body, I don't want your body

Get someone you love?

Get someone you need?

Fuck that, get money

I can't give you my soul, 'cause we're never alone

Get someone you love?

Get someone you need?

Fuck that, get money

I can't give you my soul, 'cause we're never alone

Get someone you love?

Get someone you need?

Fuck that, get money

I can't give you my soul, 'cause we're never alone

Get someone you love?

Get someone you need?

Fuck that, get money

I can't give you my soul, 'cause we're never alone

I don't want your body (I don't want your body)

But I hate to think about you with somebody else

(I don't want your body)

Our love has gone cold

You're intertwining your soul with somebody else

(I don't want your body)

I'm looking through you

While you're looking through your phone

And then leaving with somebody else

(I don't want your body)

No, I don't want your body (I don't want your body)

But I'm picturing your body with somebody else

(I don't want your body)

## Personnel

* **Mixing Engineer:** Mike Crossey
* **Background Vocals:** George Daniel
* **Programmer:** George Daniel, Jonathan Gilmore, Mike Crossey
* **Engineer:** Jonathan Gilmore
* **Mastering Engineer:** Chris Gehringer
* **Video Director:** Tim Mattia
* **Premiered by:** Beats 1
* **Keyboard:** Adam Hann, Matthew Healy
* **Released by:** Interscope Records, Dirty Hit
* **Composition:** George Daniel, Matthew Healy, Ross MacDonald, and Adam Hann
* **Guitar:** Adam Hann
* **Drums:** George Daniel
* **Bass:** Ross MacDonald
* **Vocals:** Matthew Healy