It was the release that shocked the world.
When Taylor Swift’s latest album The Tortured Poets Department finally hit our ears back in April, fans had been anticipating an album full of songs slamming her six year relationship with Joe Alwyn.
What we got instead, was an album of songs revolving around her three month (or 10 year, depending how chronically online you are) fling with The 1975 frontman Matty Healy, and while the Robbers singer kept quiet at the time, it seems he’s now ready to share his thoughts.
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Appearing on the latest episode of Joshua Citarella’s podcast Doomscroll, titled Matty Healy: Pop Culture in the 21st Century, the controversial musician seemed to take a subtle dig at his former friend and partner.
Healy’s band The 1975 are known for their synth pop sound put over songs about addiction struggles, political issues, and yes, sometimes relationships.
Whereas Swift is known for her lyricism, more often than not writing about her personal experiences with love and heartbreak.
Talking about his upcoming album, Healy shared that he thinks drawing inspiration for music from “obvious” sources like ‘casual romances’ is “not interesting.”
Watch the video above.
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“I think that a lot of artists, they become very interested in their lore, or they become interested in the things that have happened outside of their art that people know about, and they want to address that, and fair enough,” he began.
The Chocolate singer went on to explain that his first album definitely leant into that more, listening like a “series of journal entries” adding that he used to write about relationships a lot more than he does now.
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“But honestly I would kind of just be lying if I made a record about, I don’t know, all the stuff that was said about me or my casual romantic liaisons or whatever it may be, that I’ve kind of become known for just because I was famous,” he continued.
“I think that that’s an obvious thing to draw from and I’m just not interested in it.
“So, the idea of making a record about something that personally happened to me, that by the time I put it out is gonna be like two years old,” Healy shared. “I see people doing that as well, and it’s not interesting.”
Now, The Tortured Poets Department was released only one year after Healy and Swift’s split, so the timeline doesn’t align exactly, but it’s easy to see how fans have interpreted his comments as a dig at the pop superstar.
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Several of the tracks on the album are rumoured to be about Healy, but the most damming – right down to the title – is the popular hit The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived.
This is the second time Healy has seemingly addressed the release, with a video of him being asked about his “diss track” by a paparazzi just days after the album’s release went viral.
“My diss track?” he responded. “Oh, I haven’t really listened to that much of it [the album], but I’m sure it’s good.”
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