Taylor Swift is enjoying a happy relationship with her football star boyfriend, Travis Kelce. However, her ex-boyfriend, Matty Healy, made some strong comments about their past during a recent interview.
Before Taylor Swift began dating Travis Kelce last year, she had a brief romance with Matty Healy, the frontman of the band The 1975. Their relationship appears to have inspired many tracks on her latest album, The Tortured Poets Department.
While Swift has openly referenced Healy in her music, he hasn’t done the same, and he explained his reasoning in a recent interview.
On Joshua Citarella’s “Doomscroll” podcast, Matty Healy seemed to suggest that their relationship was merely a “casual romantic liaison,” making a clear jab at Taylor. He also expressed that he isn’t keen on delving into the details of their relationship, especially given the attention it garnered.
“Last year I became a way more well-known public figure for loads of different reasons. The only reason that I was interested in is kind of, like, what I was doing,” he explained, according to Life and Style Magazine.
“So, 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 continued.
Healy made it clear that he wouldn’t be honest and true to himself if he wrote music about that “casual” relationship.
“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,” Matty revealed.
This is a pretty pointed comment because based on the lyrics and writing of The Tortured Poets Department, Swift would certainly not characterize their relationship as “casual.”
Healy went on to criticize the very process of writing about a private romantic relationship, calling it “not interesting.”
“I think that that’s an obvious thing to draw from and I’m just not interested in it. And I think the maintenance of the status quo is something that I always like fight against. 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, I see people doing that as well, and it’s not interesting,” he said.
Needless to say, these are some strong comments from Swift’s ex-boyfriend, and it led to a lot of reactions on social media.
“He wouldn’t be talking about it if it didn’t bother him,” one fan wrote on social media.
“Every time he opens his mouth he continues to confirm he’s the smallest man who ever lived,” another fan wrote.
“Casual romantic liaisons and it’s him leading her on for a decade oh he has to go,” another fan said.
“Oh the tayvoodoo better come HARD,” another fan added.
“If I was Taylor I’d have the lyrics to The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived flown above his home via airplane banner,” another fan said.
“I will never understand what she saw in him,” another fan said.
Clearly, fans are not happy with these words from Healy.
