2016Released
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This song finds 1975 singer Matty Healy spending four minutes frantically trying to locate his mind. "With that song I wanted to do The Replacements doing Dr Seuss… and after I stopped doing certain things, I felt a bit mad, but I kind of had a knowledge that I was going to be alright," he told When The Gramophone Rings. "Which is why there's a resignation to my madness in the opening lyric 'Well I think I've gone mad, isn't that so sad.'" "In the pre-production I got about four or five lines in before realizing that we'd have to cut it up and record it in bits" Healy added, "but then I had a bit of a psychedelic experience at FYF Festival, so the next day in the studio I was a broken man, I felt really on edge. That night I did the whole song twice, then that second take made it onto the record."

This was borne out of the struggles that Matt Healy and his songwriting collaborator, 1975 drummer George Daniel, had with the burden of creating a follow-up to their debut album. "George and I are like brothers, we had never left each other's side," said Healy. "We complete each other. And my problems at that time separated us a little bit. It catalysed the troubles that he had and solidified all of the issues that I was having in return, and it became this really dark time. And born out of that was The Ballad of Me and My Brain."

The song is revealing about Healy. "It's intense but it doesn't take itself too seriously," The 1975 frontman told NME. "It's quite funny at times. I think that sums me up quite well."

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Key, BPM (tempo) and time signature of The Ballad Of Me And My Brain.
C♯Key
MajorMode
4/4Time Signature
123BPM

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