Matty Healy is not one to shy away from how he really feels, and on Tuesday (March 26) The 1975 frontman let everyone know his thoughts on paid fan meet and greets.
"Who came up with payed [sic] meet and greets? Did they think 'Surely there must be something else we can monetise........OH! Human connection!! They'll eat that up!,'" he wrote on Twitter. MEET YOUR FANS OR DON'T DON'T ONLY MEET THEM IF YOU'RE GETTING PAYED [sic] HONESTLY WHAT ARE YOU DOING."
When a follower responded, trying to explain to the singer why he thinks promotions like this could be beneficial to a certain tier of artist, Healy disagreed wholeheartedly.
"You can't be big enough for people to want to pay to meet you whilst not being big enough to pay for touring," he explained. "Its [sic] a paradoxical excuse for making MUSIC EXLCUISVE [sic]. "Rich kids, you line up on the left. Poor kids, just f*** off'"
In another response, he blamed major labels for the concept and gave an idea of how to make them stop.
"I think the problem is that a lot of artists don't understand how brutal it is, because MAJOR LABELS have normalised it. So MAJOR LABELS should change it," he suggested. "They should make all fans pay in cash - directly to the artist. They should literally hand over the $200. Would soon stop x"
Check out all his tweets below, and don't expect any meet and greets during The 1975's current tour.
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