The music video is as cinematic as ever, capturing the disheartening atmosphere that makes your soul ache and your chest feel suffocated ever so perfectly. Maybe the opening is just an homage to David Lynch’s “Rabbits” and only that, we may never know. Granted, it’s a The 1975 video so there are bound to be hundreds of theories and questions left unanswered and an atmosphere arises where everyone can interpret the song and visual differently. Others believe that it could portray how much people focus on themselves in relationships and life overall.
You start to think the song is more about falling apart with yourself rather than someone else, that it’s about self-preservation and discovery and the most internal struggle with yourself over who you are instead of the end of a relationship you never wanted to end where you go to metaphorical war over records and furniture and things alike. The opening scene makes the back of your mind buzz and wander to the polarizing, pressuring and often scary parts of the media and their obsession with artists that can come with very unhealthy elements. “Somebody Else” comes off as a soul shattering love song but after the video people are theorizing it’s a bit more than that, especially once you see faces in the crowd like the girl who saunters away with Healy and a group of men who give him quite the bloody nose turn into the singer himself. Each location has a specific melancholy mood and purpose to the story of the tenth track and how it unfolds. When he takes off his shirt the crowd cheers and then they loudly boo him as he takes off his clown shoes and makeup, sitting down next to his motionless counterpart where robotic, digitized, unintelligible words are said to the version of Healy on the couch.įrom there, you’re broken out of the black and white era and taken to a multitude of locations – bars, cars, eerily empty streets, diners, underpasses, and garages. The video starts off in a sitcom-esque setting in strictly black and white where we see singer Matty Healy sitting on the couch while another version of himself from the previous “A Change Of Heart” video walks in. Following the release of their sophomore album, I Like It When You Sleep For You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware Of It which dropped in late February, The 1975 have released a handful of videos honoring certain titles off of the record such as Love Me, UGH!, The Sound, A Change of Heart, and most recently Somebody Else.