It seems as though The 1975’s Matty Healy will not be spilling any beans regarding his brief relationship with Pop icon Taylor Swift, saying in a new interview he is uninterested in writing songs about “casual romantic liaisons.”
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Briefly touching on his 2023 fling with Taylor Swift on the latest Doomscroll podcast, The 1975 frontman Matty Healy explains, "Last year, I became a way more well-known public figure for loads of different reasons,” adding, “the only reason that I was interested in is kind of, like, what I was doing.”
Healy continues, "I think that a lot of artists 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.”
Without naming any names he adds, “I used to write about relationships a lot more… 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.” Healy tells host Joshua Citarella, “That’s an obvious thing to draw from," but he's "just not interested" in it. "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 says.
Tay-Tay, well known for making her love life a public interest, likely addressed their fling on her last album, The Tortured Poet’s Department, with fans pinpointing tracks like “Guilty as Sin?” and “I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can)” as being about Healy. Earlier this year he brushed any dirt off his shoulder telling TMZ Paparazzi who who pestered him about the songs, “My diss track? Oh! I haven’t really listened to that much of it, but I’m sure it’s good.”