A socially distanced performance, Healy played an acoustic reworking of the cherished track from his home. This offering comes as a lovely surprise from The 1975 frontman Healy, who has been noticeably absent from the public eye in recent months.

Taking to social media last night, Healy announced his virtual homecoming by posting his Be My Mistake cover to Instagram. Dressed in a shirt and tie, Healy takes a quick puff from his cigarette before starting the cover. The beautiful acoustic cover to Be My Mistake can be watched in full below.

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Fans were clearly delighted at this surprise share, as the post has received over 280,000 likes since last night. Numerous fans left encouraging comments on the post, one fan writing “Hope you are doing okay Matty, we love you.”

From the moment he plucks the song’s opening notes, the emotivity of Healy’s cover is unignorable. With a soft, delicate voice, Healy sings the emotional song’s opening verse: “Be my mistake/Turn out the light/She bought me those jeans/The ones that you like”

As the Chocolate singer continues on, the stripped-back performance enhances the poignancy of the already solemn song. After the cover concludes, Healy ends the post with a wave to his worldwide fanbase, to the camera, saying bashfully  “Hello, miss you, love you.”

This fresh Be My Mistake cover follows Healy taking part in Season 2 of Art Zoom. Curated by Google Arts & Culture, Art Zoom is a new web series where artists offer a narrative on some of the world’s finest pieces of artwork. 

Healy dissects the work of Dutch painter Piet Mondarian in his episode of Art Zoom, which gathered over 89,000 views on Youtube. The singer-songwriter meditated upon Mondarian’s supreme composition, saying “This painting is a pure idea, an infinite portal.” The singer also spoke on how Mondarian influenced his own work during the episode, which can be watched in full here.

In other news, two tracks from The 1975’s old band, Drive Like I Do, appeared on streaming services on October 4th. Released under the Scary Monster EP, the two songs are entitled Wolves and Scary Monsters. 

Healy chatted to NME about getting the tracks reworked, stating “I’m getting the old stuff remastered and I’m basically going to put out the first album, the album that never was released.”  Healy also confirmed back in May that “we’ll follow that up with a new album. There’s so much Drive Like I Do stuff that was great that there’s not even demos of, so I’m going to record those songs and put them out with the two records that do kind of technically exist in the world.”

The most recent album from The 1975 is Notes On A Conditional Form. Released on May 22nd, Notes On A Conditional Form contains songs like Roadkill, Then Because She Goes and The Birthday Party. Described by NME as “a bold, brave move”, Notes On A Conditional Form is a defiant sonic departure from The 1975s’ previous work.