Chocolate

Album

1975, The

Label

Dirty Hit

Genre

Pop rock

Composer(s)

Matthew Healy;George Daniel;Adam Hann;Ross MacDonald

Entered Chart

Feb 8, 2014

Peak Date

Mar 8, 2014

Released

4 March 2013

Recorded

2012-13

Catalog #

Dirty Hit/Vagrant Digital

The 1975 are a British Alternative Rock band from Manchester, England. The group who all met at school comprise vocalist Matthew Healy, guitarist Adam Hann, drummer George Daniel and bassist Ross MacDonald. This dreamy guitar-laced tune is the lead single from their third EP, Music For Cars, which was released on March 4, 2013 via Dirty Hit Records. It became their first song to chart in the UK Top 20. The 1975 took their name from a book of beat poetry that Matthew Healy found in Ibiza. He explained to Somekindofawesome: "I met an artist on holiday. It sounds a bit more bohemian, idealistic than maybe it was but I met him and ended up leaving with a book that must have been treated almost like a diary by a previous owner, so when I read it there was all these mad scribblings and notes, and the person had dated it 'the 1st of June The 1975.'" The writings and the use of the word "the" in front of a year, "1975" really impacted on Healy and the band's name was born. The song finds Healy taking on the persona of a gangsta as he sings about fleeing the police in his car with a stash of weed. (Chocolate is their euphemism for marijuana.) Matt Healy explained to The Richie T Experience: "It's a love letter to the authority figures in our town – you know about small town boredom, both by the kids and by the police." This won BBC Radio 1's A List Vote, which was a 2013 poll of the station's listeners regarding the best song of the preceding five years. The 100 most played tracks on Radio 1 since 2009 were put forward for the vote, with 1975's hit tune coming out on top. The tune was closely followed by Bastilles's "Pompeii" at #2 and Fall Out Boy's "My Songs Know What You Did In The Dark (Light Em Up)" at #3.

Hey now, call it a split because you know that you will
Oh, you bite your friend like chocolate
You say that we'll go where nobody knows
With guns hidden under our petticoat
No, we're never gonna quit it, no we're never gonna quit it, no
Now we run, run away from the boys in the blue
And my car smells like chocolate
Hey now, think about what to do
Think about what to say
Think about how to think
Pause it, play it, pause it, play it, pause it

Oh, we go where nobody knows
With guns hidden under our petticoat
And we're never gonna quit it, no, we're never gonna quit it, no
Yeah, we're dressed in black from head to toe
We got guns hidden under our petticoat
No, we're never gonna quit it, no, we're never gonna quit it, no

Now you're never gonna quit it
Now you're never gonna quit it
Now you're never gonna quit it
If you don't stop smokin' it
That's what she said
She said we're dressed in black, head to toe
With guns hidden under our petticoat
And we're never gonna quit it, no, we're never gonna quit it, no

Hey now, we're buildin' up speed as we're approachin' the hill
(Approachin' the hill, approachin' the hill)
Oh, my hair smells like chocolate
Hey now, you say you're gonna quit it, but you're never gonna quit it
Go get it, go get it, go get it, go get it, go
And play it cool

Oh, you said we go where nobody knows
With guns hidden under our petticoat
No, we're never gonna quit it, no, we're never gonna quit it, no
Yeah, we're dressed in black, from head to toe
We've got guns hidden under our petticoat
We're never gonna quit it, no, we're never gonna quit it, no

Well, I think we better go
Seriously better go
Said the feds are here, you know
Seriously better go
Oh no, well, I think we better go
Said the feds are here, you know
Said Rebecca better know
Seriously better go

(Hey)
We go where nobody knows
With guns hidden under our petticoat
And we're never gonna quit it, no, we're never gonna quit it, no
Yeah, we're dressed in black, head to toe
With guns hidden under our petticoat
No, we're never gonna quit it, no, we're never gonna quit it, no (no, no)

Well, I think we better go
Seriously better go
Said the feds are here, you know
Seriously better go
And well, I think we better go
Said the feds are here, you know
Said Rebecca better know
Seriously better go