In a very The 1975-ish bit of meta self-reference, I’ll be honest: when I volunteered to write this piece it was mostly to point out that Matty Healy is wrong, and not in the ways you might think. Specifically, Healy was wrong in February last year, when he ranked The 1975’s own albums on Twitter/X. (He put the self-titled last, for god’s sake.)
You might reasonably ask: Isn’t all art inherently subjective? Can an artist’s appraisal of their own creative output really be wrong? The…

