Matty Healy's Taylor Swift Inspired Pin At Glastonbury
As you probably know, in May 2023, Taylor Swift embarked on a seriously controversial relationship with British singer Matty Healy, with the two going public with their romance less than one month after Taylor split from her boyfriend of over six years, Joe Alwyn.
The pairing was divisive due to Matty's long history of problematic behavior, which included him seemingly doing a Nazi salute on stage, and candidly saying that he masturbates to Black women being 'brutalized' just months earlier. Taylor remained defiant amid the backlash, and even made a pointed speech that implied she was completely unfazed by the online discourse during one of her Eras Tour shows. However, by early June, it had been reported that Taylor and Matty had ended their relationship — seemingly as suddenly as it had started.
In April 2024, Taylor appeared to shed some light on her and Matty's whirlwind romance on her 31-track album, The Tortured Poets Department.
While it's important to mention that lyrical interpretation is entirely subjective and Taylor very rarely confirms who her songs are about, she has always encouraged her fans to connect clues and Easter eggs about the subjects of her music.And some of the clues are pretty apparent on TTPD, which enabled listeners to piece together a cohesive breakdown of what had seemingly happened between Matty and Taylor — from the moment that she apparently left Joe for him, to her devastation and heartbreak at him ultimately ghosting her.
Taylor's music also appeared to confirm the long-running speculation that she and Matty had been privately involved in an on-again, off-again stiuationship of sorts for almost a decade, with the two first being romantically linked in November 2014 before Matty shut down the rumors by saying that it would be 'emasculating' to date her.
On Tortured Poets, Taylor makes reference to 'waltzing back into rekindled flames' and being 'haunted' by somebody and a relationship that they 'never quite buried' in songs that are widely believed to be about Matty.
The theme is perhaps at its most apparent in the song 'Peter,' which compares the subject of the song to the character Peter Pan. In 'Peter,' Taylor sings about falling for somebody but the timing not being right, and then spending years waiting for him to be ready to date her.
'You said you were gonna grow up, then you were gonna come find me,' she repeats in the chorus, later saying that the other person was 25 years old when they first met — which is how old Matty was in 2014.'I won't confess that I waited, but I let the lamp burn / As the men masqueraded, I hoped you'd return / With your feet on the ground, tell me all that you'd learned / Cause love's never lost when perspective is earned,' she sings. 'And you said you'd come and get me, but you were 25 / And the shelf life of those fantasies has expired / Lost to the Lost Boys chapter of your life.'
And Matty appeared to allude to this song during his band, the 1975's, headline spot at Glastonbury festival on Friday night, with the star wearing a pretty pointed pin of Disney's Peter Pan for the duration of the performance.
This wasn't Matty's only apparent reference to The Tortured Poets Department either, with Swifties also being left stunned when he appeared to make a thinly-veiled dig at Taylor partway through the show. For context, TTPD's title track is also thought to be about Matty, and lovingly pokes fun at his creative process during the peak of his and Taylor's relationship.
'What this moment is making me realize is that I probably am the best," Matty told the Glastonbury crowd. "I'm probably the best songwriter of my generation. The best, what do we say… A poet, ladies and gentlemen, is what I am.'
Matty has never explicitly commented on Taylor's songs about him, and when paparazzi approached him to ask how he felt about his ex's 'diss track' shortly after the album's release, Matty breezily replied: 'My diss track? Oh! I haven't really listened to that much of it, but I'm sure it's pretty good.'
He later dismissed Taylor as a 'casual romantic liaison' during an appearance on the Doomscroll podcast, and appeared to throw shade when he maintained that he wouldn't be writing any songs about her because it wouldn't be 'interesting.'Matty started dating model Gabbriette Bechtel in September 2023, and the two confirmed that they are engaged in July 2024. Meanwhile, Taylor started dating NFL star Travis Kelce in July 2023, one month after her split from Matty.
As always, let me know what you make of it all in the comments below!
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