I'll add something to the great answer OP gave. I grew up worshipping Bowie too, and one of the reasons he was so important to me is that through the references he made in his music, the art and literature and other music he spoke about so articulately in interviews, his entire ecosystem of ideas was a kind of cultural education for me when I was a teenager.

The 1975 does much the same. I got into them a little later, around the time of their second album, but was immediately drawn into the way Matty Healy thinks about music. He has an encyclopaedic knowledge of alternative and experimental music, the references implicit in the 1975's visual presence introduce kids to everything from Robert Mapplethorpe, Converge, and Truman Capote to Gutai, Burial and Brian Eno.

He frequently makes playlists to introduce kids to vastly different music and broaden their taste. A great example is a playlist he made called "At your heaviest", which he described as "songs about more than just feeling good". Mahler, Reznor, and Eno's terrifying "Lizard Point".

Also, as someone who loved Bowie (like I mentioned), Jarvis Cocker, and the Divine Comedy long before discovering the 1975, their lyricism fits into what I see as that glorious canon of angular English misery.