Matty Healy References Taylor Swift At Glastonbury
Of course, you remember that Taylor Swift and the 1975 frontman Matty Healy briefly dated in 2023 — like, for literally just one month. Felt like a lot longer, didn't it?
If you're a Swiftie, you know that her latest album The Tortured Poets Department contained what people believed to be multiple references to Matty in specific. One of those took place in the literal title track, in which she sang, 'You left your typewriter at my apartment / Straight from the Tortured Poets Department / I think some things I never say / Like, 'Who uses typewriters anyway?''
So, last night the 1975 headlined the UK's massive Glastonbury festival. During the band's set, Matty made some comments that some took to be a thinly-veiled dig at Taylor.
'What this moment is making me realize is that I probably am the best," he said. "I'm probably the best songwriter of my generation. The best, what do we say… A poet, ladies and gentlemen, is what I am.'
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