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"It's Not Living (If It's Not with You)" is a song by English rock band The 1975. It was released on October 18, 2018 through Dirty Hit and Polydor Records as the fifth single from the band's third studio album "A Brief Inquiry into Online Relationships". It was written by all the members of The 1975 and was produced by lead vocalist Matthew Healy and drummer George Daniel. The track is a Britpop song which features synthesizers, guitars and a backing choir.
Having premiered on Annie Mac’s BBC Radio 1 show as the Hottest Record, the track was well received by music critics and was featured on several year-end lists. A music video largely inspired by the Talking Heads' concert film Stop Making Sense was premiered on YouTube on 3 December 2018. The band performed the song in the BBC Live Lounge in November of that year.
"It's Not Living (If It's Not with You)" was teased almost a year before the song's release, Matthew Healy, the lead vocalist of the band, having posted an image on Twitter of a file of the song with the caption “MFC”, the initials of the band's era named "Music for Cars", which comprises the two albums "A Brief Inquiry into Online Relationships" and "Notes on a Conditional Form".
In 2017, Matthew Healy, the lead vocalist of the band, was admitted into a rehabilitation center in Barbados to treat an on-and-off four-year addiction to heroin and benzodiazepines. Healy told The New York Times that he was lucky that his addiction didn't spiral out of control, adding that "I scared the out of everybody that I love, and that was enough for me." He explained that he wrote the song and the other tracks from the album discussing his addiction so soon after being discharged from rehab because "I'm not going to talk about it for long."
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