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As it has been described by NME, this song is a poem narrated by Siri, a Vonnegut-like allegory about loneliness, data, social media and internet addiction, concerning a man, @SnowflakeSmasher86.
Matty revealed to Pitchfork that he intended for the script to be read by his father.
"I was like, “Fuck that, sounds lame.” And then we were like, “Who should it be?” We just knew immediately. Because earlier this year, post-rehab, I was obsessed with the 2020s, like the idea that this next decade is going to be some retro-future kind of idea. I had, like, purple hair and an orange coat and I was like, “Everything’s going to be fucking super future!” I was just on that kick. I was like, “Robots, robots, robots.”"
He says that he relates to the character, @SnowflakeSmasher86, “probably more than I’d like to.”
"It’s the acknowledgement of an already existing dystopian reality. It sounds like a warning of what a future could be, but you realize it’s exactly what we’re living in."
The background instrumental track in the first half of this song was teased as the background music of numerous promotional videos for this album.
This is a spoken word track recited by Siri about a lonely man who falls in love with the internet. How much do you identify with that character?
"Probably more than I’d like to. It’s just pointing out how fucking weird things are by that removal of the human experience—just hearing a robot saying “cooked animals” on this track is a bad vibe, right? Why is it a bad vibe? This is the question I’m asking. It’s the acknowledgement of an already existing dystopian reality. It sounds like a warning of what a future could be, but you realize it’s exactly what we’re living in."
"The difference between ‘Fitter Happier’ on ‘OK Computer’ when the computer talks and ‘The Man Who Married A Robot’ is that ‘The Man Who Married A Robot’ is a more realistic voice. That voice on ‘OK Computer’ was dead weird, but when you hear Siri, you don’t react anymore. They put those voices in the fucking kitchen and get them to get eggs now. If Siri had appeared on that Radiohead album, it would have been even more sinister and weird, but we’re just used to it. We’re used to all this shit."
— Matty Healy, Dork Magazine.
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