Matty Healy’s Family Responds To Taylor Swift’s TTPD
In typical Taylor Swift songwriting fashion, her latest album, The Tortured Poets Department, features scathing lines about her past relationships. Her brief romance with 1975 frontman Matty Healy was allegedly featured in multiple tracks on the pop icon’s 11th studio album.
Taylor Swift and Matty Healy were spotted leaving a recording studio together in New York City. 👀 pic.twitter.com/R3pmmDfHHP
— Entertainment Tonight (@etnow) May 16, 2023
Though Healy, 35, has not publicly addressed the songs believed to be about him since its Friday, April 19 release, his aunt has come to his defense. Speaking to Daily Mail, Healy’s aunt says, “Nothing surprises him anymore.”
Matty Healy’s Aunt On His Relationship With Swift
Of the fourteenth song, “The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived,” his aunt adds that both Matty and Taylor “know what went on” during their spring fling. She alludes that the English singer-songwriter has his own version of the relationship that he hasn’t shared publicly.
The lyrics of the song feature lines such as: “Was any of it true? Gazing at me starry-eyed in your Jehovah’s Witness suit.” Healy is known for wearing distinctive black suits during live performances. The lyrics continue: “Who the f— was that guy? You tried to buy some pills from a friend of friends of mine. They just ghosted you. Now you know what it feels like.”
Matty’s aunt also pointedly asked the publication about Swift: “She writes about all her relationships, doesn’t she?” Despite Swifties going wild about Matty being Swift’s subject matter on many of her songs in this album, his aunt says he’s “very happy” in his new relationship with model Gabbriette Bechtel, so he’s probably “focusing on that.”
Like we previously reported, fans came to Healy’s defense on X (formerly Twitter) as well. One person said, “taylor swift got cyberbullied out of f—ing matty healy and made her own 1975 album about it.” Another added, “Pushing 40 writing about Matty Healy like it’s a forbidden love à la Romeo and Juliet. Girl he is just a nazi.”
Other songs are thought to be about Healy throughout the album, including the title track, “The Tortured Poets Department.” Lyrics from the song mention typewriters and a person who loved them. Swift sings, “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?”
In a 2018 interview with GQ, Healy listed typewriters as one of the ten things he “couldn’t live without.” He told the publication at the time: “I really like typewriters … the thing is with typewriters, and writing with pen to paper, there’s an element of commitment that goes with the ceremony of it. It requires concentration a bit better.”
Swift briefly dated Healy last spring following her breakup with longtime boyfriend Joe Alwyn. The pair called it quits by early June. However, Swift never publicly addressed her and Alwyn’s breakup or her and Healy’s relationship.
5 Lyrically Depressing But Fun Songs To Dance To On Taylor Swift's Record
Taylor Swift’s 11th studio album, The Tortured Poets Department, has already come with surprise after surprise. From the double album release to the songs shading Kim Kardashian, Matty Healy, and Joe Alwyn, TTPD has “left no crumbs,” as they say.
What stood out to us most about the 31 songs is that Swifties — whether happy and in love or going through it — all loved her dark and cheeky lyricism. Despite whatever mood you are in, it seems as though the pop icon has managed to perfectly balance vulnerable, crushing lyrics of hurt and heartache, all while giving her fans something to dance to and smile through the pain.
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I am not a Swiftie, but I can recognize when Swift, 34, has a hit. As a songwriter, Swift can be clever, and her usage of advanced vocabulary absolutely shines on this album. At other times, as pointed out by others on social media, Swift can be a little juvenile with some of her lines, making us wonder what the hype is all about.
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However, compared to other successful pop artists of today, no one else does it like Taylor Swift. She reaches her fans worldwide with her lyricism and musicianship. Every album is an event, and this one is no exception. TTPD has been compared to her 2020 album, folklore, with fans commending her use of synths on this album as well.
Longtime collaborator and friend Jack Antonoff shared his love for Taylor on X (formerly Twitter) and listed his favorite tracks on the record, both of which actually ended up on our list as well. “!! FOTS heads lets go !!” he writes of the 7th track, “Fresh Out The Slammer.” He later hyped up track 4, “Down Bad,” as it “heads as well.”
Take a look below at X Lyrically Depressing But Fun Songs To Dance To On TTPD:
