- Taylor Swift’s latest album, “The Tortured Poets Department,” is dominating the airwaves.
- But Matty Healy says he hasn’t “really listened to many”.
- “I’m sure it’s good,” Healy said of Swift’s album.
Taylor Swift’s “The Tortured Poets Department” may have broken several streaming records, but Matty Healy says he hasn’t “really listened to” the album yet.
Healy, lead singer of the band The 1975, was asked by paparazzi on Wednesday about his opinion on his “Taylor diss track.”
“My breakaway track? Oh! I haven’t really listened to much of it, but I’m sure it’s good,” Healy said of the album.
Healy’s response might surprise some, considering how fans assumed he was the subject of several songs on Swift’s album.
Healy was rumored to have a brief relationship with Swift in early 2023 following her split from Joe Alwyn. Swift is now dating Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce.
Sharp-eyed fans speculated that the album’s title track was about Healy. The song opens with Swift singing about an ex-lover leaving her typewriter in her apartment.
Fans interpreted the lyrics as a reference to Healy, who once said he enjoyed using typewriters as part of his creative process.
“The thing is, with typewriters, and writing with pen on paper, there’s sort of an element of commitment that comes with the ceremony. Therefore, it requires that you concentrate a little better,” Healy said in an interview with GQ in December. 2018.
And even if we put aside the possible references to Healy in the album, you would have thought he would have listened to it by now, given its omnipresence.
On Wednesday, streaming giant Spotify said Swift’s album had become the platform’s “most streamed album in a single week”, surpassing 1 billion streams since its release on Friday. Swift was also named “the most streamed artist in a single day in Spotify history” on Saturday.
Representatives for Swift did not immediately respond to a request for comment from BI sent outside of normal business hours.