Matty Healy finally broke his silence regarding Taylor Swift’s new album, which features several diss tracks that are — allegedly — about Matty.
The Tortured Poets Department dropped last Friday, April 19. The double album shocked Swifties — not just because it included 31 songs, but also because many of the tracks were seemingly about Matty.
There’s speculation that Taylor dated Matty briefly after her breakup with Joe Alwyn. Since Taylor and Joe dated for six years, many fans thought Taylor’s new album would mostly be about their breakup. However, it seems there might be even more songs about Matty than there are about Joe.
In fact, a few of the album’s diss tracks describe Matty relatively well. For example, the song “The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived” includes the lyrics “Was any of it true? / You gazing at me starry eyed / In your Jehovah’s Witness suit.” Matty is known for wearing suits during his performances in his band The 1975.
The same track also includes the following (harsh) lyrics:
“I would’ve died for your sins / instead, I just died inside / And you deserve prison, but you won’t get time / You’ll slide into inboxes and slip through the bars.”
There were many other (again, alleged) Matty callouts in her album. For example, fans believe the songs “But Daddy I Love Him” and “I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can), among others, were about him.
Matty Healy Reacts to Taylor Swift’s Diss Track
Page Six photographers spoke with Matty about Taylor’s TTPD on Wednesday. They asked Matty whether he listened to Taylor’s diss track about him.
“I haven’t really listened to that much of it but I’m sure it’s good,” the lead singer of The 1975 said.
While he didn’t say much about the matter, Matty Healy’s aunt revealed he likely wouldn’t be shocked by the track. “He will not be surprised by the song,” she told Daily Mail. “Him and her know what went on.”
She went on to mention that Taylor writes about all her relationships. In other words, it’s only natural to assume she would write about her romance with Matty.
“As my nephew, we know a bit more about what went on than has been in the press,” Matty’s aunt said.