There has been a lot of nepo baby chat over the past few years and music is not short of children who are following in their parent's footsteps. Maybe the grievances around the offspring of our musical heroes getting into the family business comes down to the age-old British past-time of seething about the injustice of someone getting an undeserved leg-up. No, it doesn’t matter if they do deserve it, it’s not fair and we’re seething about it.
Sometimes it doesn’t even make sense. It was regularly pointed out, for example, in the early days of The 1975 that motormouth frontman Matt Healy had famous parents, with people seemingly over-estimating just how much sway the presenter of Loose Women and the former star of Auf Wiedersehen, Pet had over modern music. No-one has listened to one of The 1975’s forward-thinking pop songs and gone, ‘You can tell his dad was in Benidorm can’t you?’.
