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I Wanna Be Yours clicked at 3B streams in Spotify

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I guess the root of the issue has been found lol

https://www.tumblr.com/should-know-better/780539446479192064/i-came-across-a-copy-of-a-french-music-magazine

R&F: Serge Gainsbourg?

Alex Turner: That's James. He's a huge fan of "...Melody Nelson." I really like watching Gainsbourg's TV appearances. Every time he invents something, he does something amazing or hilarious. What a character!

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What are the Sharrocks?

Chris Sharrock is a drummer who has worked with a bunch of bands (Oasis, for one) and his sons are also drummers. Jay has worked with Miles Kane amongst other artists.

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Found Alex during a random Facebook deep dive lol

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lol is amanda envolved in this matt work?

How would I know

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Seeing matt trying to put out a solo work is lowkey sad bc it Will probably confirm how the creative gift comes from Alex

I mean, would peopl really care for a Matt Helders solo work? And I know it will sting bc matt is the most fame hungry out of them

Matt is annoying and has done shitty things but I think it’s going a bit far to deny his talent. Idk if the music will be good and I don’t really have an interest in listening but established people in the industry like Diddy, Iggy Pop (not talking about their reputations or misdeeds atm), and Lady Gaga wouldn’t have wanted to work with him if he didn’t have chops. I also can’t imagine he’s so egotistical that he thinks some solo project will be record breaking.

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Oh wow Albert Hammond jr is having a baby again

Congrats

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https://www.instagram.com/reel/DITNdtaIUIe/?igsh=bzMzb2ZkNzdlcm5p

Yo, Tom really sounds like Alex!

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In that Austin or Atlanta radio interview in 2014 (I unfortunately just can't remember which one exactly) which is gone from the internet now but still was there only 4 years ago. Alex said he did watch watch Glee, he talked about a music scene in the show he found interesting and if I remember right compared it to a song of the band MGMT. Wouldn't have thought he'd watch that but since it has music heavily involved it makes sense. But he did call it a "kids" show lol.

// I don’t think it seems like his kind of show

Could be that he just watched the one episode out of curiosity

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Despite his own reservations about being a performer and current burnout, there is a part of him that I feel does crave the spotlight from time to time. Smaller venues would fit the kind of music he has been doing for a while now, but AM is just not the vehicle for such performances. He would need to be brave enough to stand on his own, I think, in order to finally have a career that suits his style and desires. //

I think he faces something of a catch-22 with this, which is part of why it might take a while, if it happens at all. I get the sense he could probably brave getting up there by himself if he had a well-rounded character to lean on. Like if he were in the TBHC area and fully went into the lounge singer persona, gave it a name, went all out with the staging so every part of it was clearly a performance removed from himself, and sort of erased the vulnerability of it all. Basically if he created his own Ziggy Stardust (or his own Slim Shady lol). But then again, I also think that level of artifice is what he keeps bristling against, which brings him back to needing a band to stand in front of instead.

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Do you think Alex has watched skins?

I don’t think it seems like his kind of show

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I feel bad for Amelia. For having a step mother who just wants her to be a teenager while she should just be a child since she is and puts her on fucus on the internet too much to shade her mother. It wouldn't surprise me if Amelia wouldn't talk so fond of her father and etc when she grows up. Katie posted her children sometimes too but in a cute way letting them be kids as well Kelly. I know Breana is a decent mother but her father and step mom doing that in her child years just looks like bad influence. Remember they took her to a restaurant bar to hang out with Matty Healy and Gabriette, the many AM gigs they took her to, and taking her to Sabrina Carpenter who does many sexual acts on stage. I don't think Matt really feels like a father towards her because a dad would rather protect his daughter from such influences.

I can’t really comment on the adeptness of anyone’s parenting without actually knowing them

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I know it's not possible for some to imagine that since their over display on the internet. But I do think Amanda will be Matt's second ex-wife in the future.

Certainly possible

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This is a tough question I'm about to ask you: which dead artist gives you the impression of still being alive? And is this due to music, style, and culture?

I mean… I don’t really get that impression from any deceased artist. Once people are dead they’re dead. All that remains is the work they left behind or their possible influence on culture.

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Maybe I’m being extra because I don’t like him but it’s weird to me how Matt (and Amanda) constantly posts pics of Amelia while Breana doesn’t. I don’t really approve of parents posting photos of their kids online in general but when one parent is very public about and the other one isn’t it’s even weirder.

And, again, maybe this is me reading into things too much because I dislike him but it kind of gives me an ick when he and Amanda make these posts about how they were fated to be together like he wasn’t married to another woman and had a child with her.

I will say that almost every time I look at Breana’s profile, which isn’t that often, she’s got pictures of the kid on her stories. She doesn’t make the kid a focal point of her social media like Amanda does though, and I don’t think Breana posts private moments either. I felt uncomfortable by the story Amanda posted of Matt and the kid hugging because it felt like an invasion of privacy, and it also seemed like she was shading Breana a bit since the kid had just come back from a trip with her. I personally wouldn’t post pictures of my child online period, especially if I were a public figure, but if the parents are fine with it there’s nothing else to really say.

But yeah, the ~soulmate~ posting is eyeroll-inducing. Reviewing the Mattanda timeline: they met at a festival in Brazil in 2007, Matt (in a relationship with ex-girlfriend Amy at the time) allegedly had a crush on Amanda, she wasn’t interested, James Ford tried to set them up a few times over the years, which apparently stretched through to 2011, then Matt met Breana and was with her until late 2018, Matt and Amanda reconnected in 2021 and started dating, then were married in 2023. Like sure, if I were in their shoes I’d probably think it was fate that kept bringing us together but the circumstances aren’t that cute. Again, he was in a longterm relationship during the early days, which they love to ignore. Amanda didn’t seem to care about him until he was rich and even more famous. Matt met Breana not long after Mattanda played the same festival in 2011, and he liked her enough that he chose to marry her. Who knows, maybe he was pining for Amanda the whole time, but I think it’s shameful to constantly publicly degrade your ex-wife and the mother of your child and any woman who gladly engages in it is probably not a good person either. Maybe Breana really sucks, but I’ve seen less bad behavior from her side 🤷‍♀️ They all need to grow up for the sake of the kid stuck in the middle.

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I just don’t see him making a solo album because he’s said time and time again that he doesn’t want to. He needs a band to stand in front of but he also won’t branch out and meet new people to collaborate with, nor do I think he trusts working with outsiders. I can see him doing more of what he’s done like with Richard Ayoade, where he’s contributing to someone else’s work— but again, it has to be someone he knows and trusts.// I generally agree with you that we're not likely to see a full-on Alex solo record any time soon, but idk, maybe it's just wishful thinking but I can't shake the feeling that Alex is at his core a performer and that at some point he'll want to be on a stage again in some form... I just don't think it'll look like what we're used to. Because Alex seems to take so many career cues from the artists he admires, I can't help but kind of look at them when I'm trying to imagine what he'll do next. If he were to make any solo music in-studio, I could see him maybe doing something like what Nick Cave did in 2019 (minus the audience interaction lol) where he plays a few very small venues around the UK, maybe just by himself with a piano, or with a small orchestral section made up of session musicians he knows or something, and just does a few new tunes or reimaginings of his old songs and songs he likes in this new style. Could also see him going the very late career Bowie route and do a few intimate pop-up shows with zero warning seemingly on a whim, at events and venues he cares about. If the rest of the band (or maybe even Miles) were to get on board with a lower-key vibe, I could see him doing something like Lou Reed and Marianne Faithful (and to a lesser extent Bob Dylan) did later in their careers where they play more cabaret-style venues, art centers, and smaller concert halls on very limited, spaced out tours. I just think it'd be hard to get a personality like Matt's on board for that kind of thing. Tbh, if she weren't such a liability I could see him doing something like this with Louise (or the idea of her) as well - I think the idea of that kind of duet, intimate, couple-y performance could appeal to him if his partner were a worthwhile artist to share that with. Alternately, if he sticks to this whole Gainsbourg thing, I think that his late career could be something Alex emulates that might be appealing enough to get the rest of the band on board as well. Just getting increasingly more experimental in studio, never touring internationally and only ever doing occasional opulent gigs "at home" (like the 1985 Casino de Paris run), doing rare but significant interviews, and doing some TV spectacles. In their case, though, I think it'd be less TV spectacles and more short films/extended music videos. I think they sort of moved in that direction a little bit during this last tour tbh with the King's Theatre gig and the Jool's Holland appearance. (Also on the Gainsbourg note: I always find it interesting how into stylistically copying him Alex got, given how much of Gainsbourg's work essentially focused on aggressively and unabashedly exposing himself and his inner workings to the public in often provocative and uncomfortable ways - makes me wonder if there's a side of Alex that really wishes he could do that, but just isn't brave enough to... but I digress).

All this said, I can also see him just going full Scott Walker and becoming a hermit and putting out increasingly more personal and experimental studio albums and making his public appearances more or less non-existent. Anyway, this got long and is obviously super speculative but I find it fun to think about. Either way, though he says doesn't want to tour anymore and it's looking like this hiatus will be long, I personally don't think we've seen the last of Alex on a stage quite yet.

Despite his own reservations about being a performer and current burnout, there is a part of him that I feel does crave the spotlight from time to time. Smaller venues would fit the kind of music he has been doing for a while now, but AM is just not the vehicle for such performances. He would need to be brave enough to stand on his own, I think, in order to finally have a career that suits his style and desires.

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I read an interview with someone— I can’t remember if it was Alexa or someone else but it was from ages ago— where either the person interviewed or the interviewer said that AM fans are very intense and protective over the band. Time hasn’t mellowed people out in the slightest— in fact, I’d argue it’s gotten worse with the influx of tiktok fans.// This is interesting because I've often felt like this fandom is a bit more intense than most (for bands like AM anyway - not including Swifties and the like), but I kind of always dismissed myself thinking I probably only think that because I follow this one more closely than most... seems like it wasn't just an impression, then?

I’m struggling to find a way to word what I think here. It’s almost like because they aren’t as public and accessible (via social media, for instance) as other bands/artists, they feel more “underground” which actually makes them seem more accessible? Which in turn makes fans feel like they know them more personally despite their relatively aloof natures, coupled with their image for many years of greater authenticity than most mainstream bands.