The 1975 Remove Song From Streaming After Matty Healy Decides He Prefers The Album Without It

Matty Healy, the frontman for English rockers The 1975, has engaged in a bit of revisionist history, removing a track from the band’s 2022 album after deciding he no longer likes it.

The track in question is Human Too, which appeared as the ninth song on the band’s latest record, Being Funny In A Foreign Language.

The album was the band’s fifth, and their third to top the ARIA Charts, but anyone attempting to relive the group’s chart-topping successes will be disappointed to no longer find the song on streaming services – with the album reduced down to an even ten tracks.

The song’s removal was questioned on Reddit, where Healy also chimed in to address its absence, explaining its removal was “so the album is more how I want it to be.”

“Previous physical release obviously remain the same,” he pointed out. “I doubt the same will happen with any other records as I am pretty happy with them outside of What Should I Say from Notes On A Conditional Form. So that may also be removed who knows.”

On one hand, the song’s removal isn’t entirely unsurprising. After all, out of all the tracks featured on Being Funny In A Foreign Language, it’s the only one to have never been given a live debut, indicating a general sense of disapproval from within the band.

However, it does raise questions about the tinkering of art after the fact – even if an artist is well within their rights to do so.

“Love you a lot but in my opinion, getting rid of the songs you don’t like anymore just reduces the value of the art that you’re making,” wrote one Reddit user in response to Healy’s comment. “There’s always a risk of regretting something we put out in the world and we can’t just act like they never happened.”

Healy isn’t the first to alter an album after its release, of course. One of the most famous examples of this comes by way of Kanye West, whose 2016 album The Life Of Pablo, received numerous updates past its release.

While lyrics from the infamous Famous were altered, guest vocals from Vic Mensa and Sia were removed from the track Wolves, while Frank Ocean's own outro to the latter was separated into its own song, fittingly called Frank's Track.

In 2020, West addressed the constant album updates, simply noting that “Nothing is ever done” when it comes to completing a record.

Though fans have since questioned Healy’s decision to remove Human Too, asking why it couldn’t simply live on as a standalone song separate from the record, others are undoubtedly remaining somewhat apprehensive that What Should I Say may receive a similar treatment soon.

While that song hasn’t been performed live either, the fact that it currently boasts over 15 million streams on Spotify alone indicates there may be a solid portion of the fanbase who would be upset at its potential future removal.