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The English pop-rock royalty have hit out at the Australian radio station.
It comes after the band announced an upcoming Australian tour yesterday. The five-date stint will see them visit Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane next April, alongside two shows in New Zealand. Now the band’s lead singer Matt Healy has hit out at triple j after the national youth broadcaster posted in promotion of the tour.
“Play our music then before you start licking our arse just cos you’ve finally realised we’re mint,” Healy wrote on Instagram.
“You literally have nothing to do with us coming to Australia don’t start getting involved now. You don’t have a monopoly on cool and the head of your company is a knobhead so yous can fuck off,” he later added on Twitter.
You literally have nothing to do with us coming to Australia don’t start getting involved now. You don’t have a monopoly on cool and the head of your company is a knobhead so yous can fuck off https://t.co/te7D1yeEE4
— Matty (@MatthewTHealy) October 6, 2022
The Twitter account @triplejplays shows that the station has been playing the band since 2019, which isn’t very long considering they’ve been releasing music since 2012. It’s not the first time an artist has hit out at the radio station for frustration over not being played, or only being played after attaining a certain level of popularity.
So far, triple j is yet to respond, but in the court of public opinion, fans of The 1975 have been quick to echo Healy’s hot take.
I’ve genuinely always wondered if something went down behind the scenes business wise because the 1975 x triple J dynamic has always confused me to no end. I’m so curious.
— paris 🥀 (@parisvelvet) October 6, 2022
Apropos of nothing, according to my rigorous research (counting tweets by @triplejplays), triple j's played The 1975 24 times this year.
— Ben Madden (@benmaddenwriter) October 6, 2022
The 1975 were always very weirdly ignored by Triple J in a way that never made sense to me so I’m genuinely screaming at this omg https://t.co/wsQdVk4B0C
— paris 🥀 (@parisvelvet) October 6, 2022
Triple j must think that The 1975 are R&B to not be playing them
— Cyclone (@therealcyclone) October 6, 2022
Let’s face facts. If Triple J had played The 1975 from 2013. I can name at least 10 songs of theirs that would have cracked the Hottest 100.
— ジェイデン (@JJSMI) October 6, 2022
