Rina Sawayama Seemingly Calls Out 1975’s Matty Healy

Rina Sawayama seems to be calling out to Matty Healy after her widely criticized comments during a podcast in February.

The 32-year-old pop star was at the Glastonbury Festival on Saturday. explain why you wrote your song “STFU” shares that this is because he is “sick and fed up with micro-attacks.”

“So, tonight, this song goes to a white man watching. Ghetto Runaways and mocking Asian people on a podcast,” Sawayama said, apparently referring to Healy. “He also owns my masters. I have enough.”

Sawayama’s comments came four months after the 34-year-old The 1975 frontman appeared on television. Adam Friedland Show In February, her father, Black, appeared on the podcast where her mother laughed along with hosts Friedland and Nick Mullen, who used stereotypical accents to impersonate Dominican rapper Ice Spice. Elsewhere during the podcast, Healy and the hosts joked about watching the racist pornography series “Ghetto Gaggers,” in which white men humiliate Black women.

Healy was criticized for laughing along with the MCs during the episode and has since shared. apology on stage in April. His podcast appearance has been denounced before. ESEA MusicA community of East and Southeast Asian music industry professionals in the UK

In part, the March statement said, “Hearing the band imitating stereotypical Asian accents gives rise to an all too familiar feeling that we have referred to the racist taunts and taunts of the ‘Asian’ accents of schoolyard bullies of the past.”

As for Sawayama, he signed with Dirty Hit, a company run by The 1975’s manager, Jamie Oborne. He was signed with the company in 1975, and Healy directed Dirty Hit from 2018 to April 2023.

After the Friedland podcast where the hosts called Ice Spice the “Inuit Spice Girl”, Healy shared in an interview: New Yorker HE deliberately fooled his fans “a little”. Finally Healy shared an apology During a concert in New Zealand in April, he explained to the crowd that he “never wanted to hurt anyone”.

“I’m sorry if I offended you. Ice Spice, I’m sorry,” Healy said. “Not because I’m angry that my joke was misunderstood, but because I don’t want Ice Spice to think I’m a d—,” the 23-year-old said of the rapper.

“I love you, Ice Spice… It’s okay if I’m a trickster or something, but I don’t want to be perceived as mean.”

“We all get it wrong and I have to do it in public and then I have to apologize to Ice Spice and my life is kind of weird. But I’m really sorry if I upset him because I s—ing love him.”

The “Princess Diana” rapper recently performed a new remix version of “Karma” on stage at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey, joining Healy’s then-rumored girlfriend, Taylor Swift. At the time, Healy and Swift had been linked since early May, but Swift, 33, said the “Karma” duet and music video were recorded months ago. Shortly after the song’s release, it was reported that Healy and Swift broke up after a whirlwind romance.

“He had fun with it, but it was always casual,” a source confirmed to PEOPLE in early June. “They are no longer in a romantic relationship.”