Matt Healy seemingly made a dig at his old flame Taylor Swift when he referred to his ‘casual romantic liaisons’ in a recent interview and explained why he doesn’t write about heartbreak and his past relationships anymore.
Matty, 35, and Taylor, 34, dated very briefly last year but split in June 2023, and she appeared to reference their short-lived romance on her latest album The Tortured Poets Department, which was released in April of this year.
Taylor is widely believed to have taken aim at The 1975 frontman in her song The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived, but Matty has now claimed that writing about past romances is such ‘an obvious thing to draw from.’
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During an appearance on Joshua Citarella’s podcast Doomscroll, Matty spoke about his process of making music and what he likes to write about and said: ‘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.
‘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.’
Referring to his band The 1975, he continued: ‘Maybe on my first record, when it was very much a series of journal entries, like little bits of heartache, I used to write about relationships a lot more and stuff like that.
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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 said.
‘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,’ he added.
‘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.’
Meanwhile, Taylor is known for allegedly penning songs about her past lovers, including John Mayer, One Direction star Harry Styles, and Twilight actor Taylor Lautner.
