The 1975’s Polly Money on new EP ‘T-Shirt Nothing Else’ and “bucket list” Glastonbury 2025 headline slot: “It’s a dream come true”

The musician tells NME about the R&B-influenced project, how playing with Matty Healy and co inspired her material, tackling imposter syndrome, and what to expect from 1975's big Pyramid Stage slot this June The post The 1975’s Polly Money on new EP ‘T-Shirt Nothing Else’ and “bucket list” Glastonbury 2025 headline slot: “It’s a dream come true” appeared first on NME.

Mar 28, 2025 - 18:19

The 1975’s Polly Money on new EP ‘T-Shirt Nothing Else’ and “bucket list” Glastonbury 2025 headline slot: “It’s a dream come true”

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Polly Money has spoken to NME about her new EP ‘T-Shirt Nothing Else’, touring as a member of The 1975, and what’s next as the band prepare for their huge headline slot at Glastonbury 2025.

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The singer-songwriter joined Matty Healy and co. on their ambitious 18-month ‘At Their Very Best’ and ‘Still… At Their Very Best’ tours in support of the band’s latest album, 2022’s ‘Being Funny In A Foreign Language’. Contributing vocals and guitar, Money augmented the live shows alongside three other musicians in addition to the four core ’75 members.

Her parts in the theatrical and often meta performances proved popular with fans. She took on lead vocals on ‘Jesus Christ 2005 God Bless America’ – the original of which features Phoebe Bridgers – and duetted with Healy on a reworking of ‘A Change Of Heart’. A standout and viral moment came courtesy of her solo verse in heartbreaker ballad ‘About You’.

Still, Money said that she experienced imposter syndrome and niggling feelings of insecurity while out on the road. This inspired her ‘T-Shirt…’ single ‘Anything’ (“I’m not even that good at it, I just got lucky/ But they say that I deserve it / But that ain’t the way that I feel about/ I feel ’bout anything“).

“It actually took me quite a long time to overcome it,” she told NME. “I was just telling myself that I deserved to be in that position. I gave my all to that show. I just tried to believe my own encouragement and support. There is a huge amount of luck in all of this. Every gig I get to play, I feel grateful for it.”

Released last Friday (March 21), Money’s latest EP sees her navigating “the complexities of love, longing and self-discovery” across five tracks. The coming-of-age project blends R&B influences with indie-pop, while showcasing a rawer side of her sound on the tender title track.

“I really loved the vulnerability of it and the intimacy of that one line [‘T-shirt, nothing else/ She holds me from behind‘],” Money explained. “I love having interludes and short little musical sections that just catch your attention. I didn’t really put a huge amount of thought into it. I just loved the line, and I was like, ‘That’s what I want it to be’.”

She told NME that the introspective, electronic-acoustic hybrid ’30 Minutes’ “had never intended to be single-y at all”. However, she was surprised to see that fans were “really loving it” and it had earned some radio play. “We just released it with the EP thinking it would do nothing, but people are reacting well to it,” Money added.

As for the dreamy break-up cut ‘Milk & Honey’, she spoke about the contrast between the lyrics of the “sad song” and its upbeat, “euphoric” feel.

“I love when lyrics have a completely different tone to the melody of the song,” she explained. “It’s a really nice and interesting way of writing. I find a lot of these things happen quite accidentally, especially with ‘Milk & Honey’. I try and do that quite a bit.”

Money revealed that she was “already working on” her debut studio album, adding that ‘T-Shirt Nothing Else’ “sets the tone” for what’s to come next.

“It’s so exciting ’cause it’s the first time I’ve ever written an album and done that process,” she told NME. “It’s really nice in the stage I’m at, ’cause I can really put the time into it. There’s definitely a few elements and genres I want to incorporate onto the album that aren’t on the EP. But it’s definitely a tone setter, for sure.

“I’m a big R&B lover. In some of my earlier stuff, you can hear bits of that creeping in, whereas the EP is still very much indie-pop.” She cited Haim as “huge references”, praising the LA trio’s ability “in blending those two very different genres and making it work”. Her other influences include Dijon, MUNA, and ’75’s Dirty Hit labelmates The Japanese House and Beabadoobee.

Money expressed her desire to “do a full-on R&B album” later in her career. “Some people have described my voice as kind of leaning a little bit towards the R&B world,” she said. “I’d love to incorporate more R&B into my production.”

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