"The Birthday Party" is four verses of stream-of-consciousness where Matty Healy reflects on the social minutiae of a house party. It starts off with the singer stepping back into the social scene after becoming clean. Hello, there's a place I've been going There's a place I've been going Now I'm clean, it would seem Let's go somewhere I'll be seen In 2018, Healy took a seven-week sabbatical at a rehab clinic in Barbados to battle a four-year addiction to heroin and benzodiazepines. Since then he has steered clear of drugs.
Healy makes a reference to the American rock band Pinegrove and the accusation that their lead singer was involved in sexual coercion. They were gonna go to the Pinegrove show They didn't know about all the weird stuff By the third verse, things aren't going well, as Healy highlights his struggle to connect with others. In a boring conversation with a girl called Mel About her friend in Cincinnati called Matty as well You pulled away when I went in for the kiss
Speaking with Dazed, Healy said he originally intended to do a song about "what it was like to be at a house party at 20, 25, and 29." Then he realized he just needed to write about what it's like now.
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