Pushing The Character Limit

Published: 31 Mar 2024 | Updated: 31 Mar 2024

A fanzine for the eclectic art-rock band The 1975.

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A Brief Inquiry Into Preposterous Panache - A Fanzine For The 1975

Irony ≠ Sincerity

Everything always changes, except these almost constants:

A penchant for saxophones
Stylings found in time capsule buried in the 1980s
The ones with the thrumming baselines (are the ones with these)
Near-impossible-to-pull-off rhymes yet somehow, they work
Self-referential all the way down
One level of meta isn't enough
References for the teen and the literature professor alike
In and out and sick of and in love with love itself

This is what glorious preposterousness looks like.

Cities

Paris

London

Manchester

Japan

Los Angeles

Surrounded by heads and bodies, all just out of reach yet right there, this ambient co-presence, how it relives her frail state of mind. She doesn't think about you anymore, which is odd, considering, though everything always changes, she's (still) in love with you. She says sincerity is scary, how terrifying it is to be seen.

Happiness isn't the answer. Nor is waiting on a change of heart. Neither is 'love it if we made it'.

Being the one to make things happen... Being brave enough to move forward... This is how she (and you) will survive.