Fans of the 1975 were left puzzled this week by the disappearance from streaming services of “Human Too,” an album track from 2022’s Being Funny in a Foreign Language. Now, Matthew Healy has taken to Reddit to explain its absence: “Human Too was removed from the album so the album is more how I want it to be,” he wrote. That clears that up, then. The remaining records are safe, Healy added, because he is “pretty happy with them”—with one exception: “What Should I Say,” from Notes on a Conditional Form. “So that may also be removed who knows,” he concluded. Catch the latter while you can below.
While it is now commonplace for artists to tweak albums post-release—typically for reasons to do with sample clearance or perfectionism—retroactively wiping a song, three years after the fact, is more of a novelty. Healy noted in his comment, presumably for those unfamiliar with the mechanics of physical media, that “Human Too” still appears on prior physical releases of the album.
