On Monday, news broke that Taylor Swift and Matty Healy had broken up after a month-long fling that enraged fans. “He was having fun with it but he was always relaxed,” a source said. People; Another added, “They were never boyfriend-girlfriend or special, and they were always just having fun.” And Healy, who was seen holding her heart as she watched Swift’s crushing Eras tour and making out with the pop star as recently as May 24, seems to be fending off the storm of criticism over her now troubled behavior and her now-simmering volatility. He had caused this spring with Swift.
During his band The 1975’s show in Austria on Monday, Healy paused on stage to thank a fan who made a sign that read “You Are Loved”.
“I am sure [the sign is] Healy told the crowd:
Indeed, many Swift fans happily responded to the news of his abrupt departure from Healy.
“TAYLOR AND MATTY BROKEN EVERYONE’S PARTY” someone tweeted. “Mom, we’re celebrating” another crowdbefore clarifying, “because it’s not [of you] you suffer another heartache but because you survived that squirrel XOXO. Now is your time to heal.”
“I wasn’t online but what I was with are my sons,” Healy added while speaking to fans on Monday. “And honestly, as much as I appreciate that [sign]- very nice and thank you – but I don’t need it because I have it.
Healy’s comments reflect his sense of what is important, but very recently he had begun to dismiss the idea that he would need it. any It’s kind of a boost to reinvigorate him in the publicity shitstorm he’s managed to start for himself and Swift.
At the end of May a New Yorker Healy’s profile found while minimizing the backlash to the singer’s recent appearance on The Adam Friedland Show podcast, where co-hosts chuckled while teasing rapper Ice Spice by adopting exaggerated Chinese accents; Healy also lightly discussed masturbating to Ghetto Gagger’s pornography in the same episode.
“Let’s say the best-case scenario is that Matty was totally kidding in that interview,” Swift fan Madeline Ambrose told The Daily Beast. “It’s still disgusting to joke about it. thinking about what happened [porn] their website is a joke, making it clear how ignorant it is about the privileges it holds and the way this content perpetuates so much racism. So even in the best case scenario, he is ignorant and uneducated and who is this [Swift] He wants to spend his time together.”
Instead of apologizing to the legion of Swift fans who expressed genuine hurt by his words and actions, Healy doubled down saying: New Yorker HE provocations “doesn’t really matter. No one sits there at night crouched in front of the computer and their boyfriends come and say, ‘What’s the matter, darling?’ says. and they say, ‘This thing with Matty Healy. This will not happen.”
“If so, you’ve either been tricked or – sorry – you’re a liar,” Healy continued. New Yorker writer Jia Tolentino pushed him back, pressing him to think his words were true. To do Subject. “You’re either lying that you’re hurt, or you’re a bit mental because you’re hurt. It’s just that people say, ‘Oh, there’s something bad out there, let me get as close to it as possible so you can see how good I am.’ And I want them to do that because they’re displaying something on a very fundamental level.
When Swift announced a collaboration with Ice Spice on May 24, many speculated that the link was Swift’s hasty damage control attempt. And now, after the reported breakup, some similarly believe that things between exes ended just because Healy started to do so much damage to Swift’s image.
“If it wasn’t for the Cum Town debacle it would have stayed with him forever” said a Twitter commentator, citing the name of Friedland’s defunct former podcast. “You must be in really bad shape for Taylor Swift to break up with you.”
There are gentler approaches among Swift’s fans, but they are not well received. “Poor girl wanted to hit a scumbag before settling in like us in our late 20s/early 30s and no one let her do it in peace.” rolling rock by Ej Dickson tweeted On Monday, drawing a flood of criticism.
“He is a racist” one person replied. “Dating him also makes him a racist, and it just shows how bankrupt morally bankrupt people like you really are when you white women act like he’s a regular asshole.”
Of course, Swift has yet to make a public statement about her relationship with Healy. But one can only imagine how she might begin to address her troubled podcast backlash, her ex-girlfriend’s brow-raising habit of kissing fans on stage, or her breakup from Joe Alwyn, who was almost completely drowned in the tidal wave of Healy rhetoric. next album. He has very sensitive ground to address if he is to keep his fans firmly on his side.