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“Looking for Somebody (To Love)” is the third song included in The 1975’s fifth album, Being Funny in a Foreign Language.
The song is an 80s synth-pop record that features sarcastic vocals, centered on a crisis of “modern masculinity.”
Being Funny in a Foreign Language’s album description, along with other interviews, includes a snippet of lyrics from the track.
“I wanna show him he’s a bitch!/I wanna fuck him up good!/I wanna smash the competition – go and kill it like a man should!!!”
“You’ve gotta show me how to push, if you don’t want a shove are the words of a young man, already damned, looking for somebody to love,”
Rolling Stone revealed more information about “Looking for Somebody (To Love)” in a 2022 cover story to promote the album.
Mass shootings and violence appear on this dark and upbeat 80s-inspired song that could soundtrack a Black Mirror episode about what happens when a man can’t convince a woman to date him.
“If I’m going to talk about guns, it’s probably good for me to talk about the thing that I probably understand or empathize with the most, which is that the only vocabulary or lexicon that we provide for young boys to assert their dominance in any position is one of such violence and destruction. There’s a line that says, ‘You’ve got to show me how to push/If you don’t want a shove,’ which is me saying we have to try and figure this crisis out because there are so many young men that don’t really have guidance, and a toxic masculinity is inevitable if we don’t address the way we communicate with them.“
– via Apple Music (October 14, 2022)
“‘Looking for Somebody (To Love)’ is about school shootings. For me as a British person, school shootings are an abstract phenomena I don’t understand. These shootings have reasons and cause, and that’s what I’m trying to figure out.“
- Matty Healy via Spotify
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