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Matty Healy commented Taylor Swift‘s record-breaking double album, The Tortured Poets Department. The 35-year-old 1975 frontman was asked by paparazzi on Wednesday, April 24, how he would “rate” the “diss track” that is said to be about him.
“Oh,” Matty said, laughing, according to a video shared by Entertainment tonight. He then added, “I haven’t really listened to much of it, but I’m sure it’s good,” as he walked away from the videographer.
Last week, Taylor, 34, released her highly anticipated album on April 19th. Immediately, the Swifties picked apart each song’s lyrics and were convinced that the track, titled “The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived,” was about Matty and their brief romance in 2023.
Matty’s aunt Debbie Dedes recently told us Daily Mail that her nephew was “not surprised by the song in question.”
Matty Healy was asked about Taylor Swift’s new album The Tortured Poets Department. pic.twitter.com/FVLUGlwM96
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“Nothing surprises him anymore,” Debbie said, adding: “He and she know what happened. …She writes about all her relationships, doesn’t she? I don’t think it will be a shock to him.”
Debbie also noted that Matty’s family “knows a little bit more about what happened.” [between him and Taylor] than it said in the press.” She later added that the “Somebody Else” artist was “very happy in his new relationship” as Matty was dating his girlfriend. Gabbriette Bechtesince September 2023.
As for Matty and Taylor, they briefly dated for about a month in mid-2023. There were also rumors that they were romantically linked in 2014, but they never addressed the speculation.
In May 2023, the former couple was photographed leaving Taylor’s party together. A month later, they reportedly split and Taylor moved on with her current boyfriend. Travis Kelcethis summer.
Although she doesn’t mention Matty in “The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived,” fans believe the lyrics subtly reference him, particularly when Taylor sings, “You crashed my party with your rental car / You said normal girls.” would be boring / But you.” were gone in the morning / You turned off the stage lights / But you’re still performing.”
At the start of the TTPD track, Taylor sings, “Was any of this true? / You stare at me with starry eyes / In your Jehovah’s Witness suit / Who the hell was that guy?” In the chorus, she refers to a summer spoiled by the person in question.
“And I don’t even want you back, I just want to know if the goal was to rust my glittering summer?” Taylor sings. “And I don’t miss what we had, but could someone give a message to the smallest man who ever lived?”