Part Of The Band

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## Music Video

"**Part Of The Band**" is a song by the British band The 1975. It was released as the debut single for their album *Being Funny In A Foreign Language* on July 7th 2022. Michelle Zauner sings backing vocals on the track.

## Background

Part Of The Band was recorded from January 2022 - April 2022 at Real World Studios, with Jack Antonoff and Michelle Zauner recording their backing vocals at Electric Lady Studios. It served as the lead single for The 1975's album Being Funny In A Foreign language and was released on July 7th 2022. The song has a music video, which was filmed on April 28th 2022 and released on July 7th 2022 alongside the song.

In an interview with NME, Michelle Zauner talked about her contributions to the song:

> *“I was actually feeling kind of insecure that no one had ever asked me to sing on a project”, Zauner said. “I guess I have kind of a weird voice, not an objectively ‘pretty’ one to layer on someone else’s. One day Jack texted me: ‘Do you like The 1975?’ – who are one of my favourite bands. ‘How soon can you be at Electric Lady?’ I was still in my pyjamas, probably hungover. I took a shower and got on the train.”*
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## Official Versions

* Album Version - 4:20
* Radio Edit - 3:44

## Song Credits

### Writing and Production

* **Written by:** George Daniel, Jack Antonoff & Matthew Healy
* **Produced by:** Jamie Squire, Matthew Healy & George Daniel

### Instrumentation

* **Vocals:** Matthew Healy
* **Backing Vocals:** Michelle Zauner & Jack Antonoff
* **Guitar:** Adam Hann & Matthew Healy
* **Bass:** Ross MacDonald
* **Drums:** George Daniel
* **Violin:** Bobby Hawks
* **Programming:** Jack Antonoff & George Daniel

### Technical

* **Engineered by:** Evan Smith, Andrew Gearhart, Dave Gross, Oli Jacobs, Jon Gautier & Laura Sisk
	+ **Engineering Assisted by:** Dani Perez Carasols, Freddie Williams, Dom Shaw, Katie May, John Rooney & Liam Hebb
* **Mixed by:** Manny Marroquin & Chris Galland
	+ **Mixing Assisted by:** Scott Desmarais, Robin Florent & Jeremie Inhaber
* **Mastered by:** Robin Schmidt

### Studio Info

* **Recorded at:** Real World Studios (Wiltshire, UK) & Electric Lady Studios (New York City, NY)
* **Mastered at:** 24-96 Mastering (Karlsruhe, DE)

## Lyrics

**Verse 1**

She was part of the Air Force, I was part of the band

I always used to bust into her hand

In my, my, my imagination

I was living my best life, living with my parents

Way before the paying penance and verbal propellants

And my, my, my cancellations, hm, yeah

**Verse 2**

And I fell in love with a boy, it was kinda lame

I was Rimbaud and he was Paul Verlaine

In my, my, my imagination

So many cringes and heroin binges

I was coming off the hinges, living on the fringes

Of my, my, my imagination, oh, yeah

[Pre-Chorus: Matthew Healy]

Enough about me now

"You gotta talk about the people, baby"

(But that's kind of the idea)

**Chorus**

Now I'm home, somewhere I don't like

Eating stuff off of motorbikes

Cumming to her lookalikes

I can't get the language right

Just tell me what's unladylike

**Verse 3**

I know some Vaccinista tote bag chic baristas

Sitting in east on their communista keisters

Writing about their ejaculations

"I like my men like I like my coffee

Full of soy milk and so sweet, it won't offend anybody"

Whilst staining the pages of The Nation, oh, yeah

**Pre-Chorus**

A Xanax and a Newport

"Well I take care of my kids", she said

**Chorus**

The worst inside of us begets

That feeling on the internet

It's like someone intended it

(Like advertising cigarettes)

A diamond in the rough begets

The diamond with a scruff you get

**Outro**

Am I ironically woke? The butt of my joke?

Or am I just some post-coke, average, skinny bloke

Calling his ego imagination?

I've not picked up that in a thousand four hundred days

And nine hours and sixteen minutes, babe

It's kind of my daily iteration

## References

1. ↑ Japanese Breakfast says she was “still in my pyjamas” when asked to sing on The 1975’s ‘Part Of The Band’ - NME, November 5 2022