Matty Healy is reportedly preparing to write about his relationship with Taylor Swift on the next album by The 1975.
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The two singers are widely speculated to have dated for a short period in the summer of 2023, following Swift’s split from actor Joe Alwyn and before the start of her relationship with NFL star Travis Kelce.
Swifties were quick to pick up on what they assumed to be references about her time with Healy when she released her 2024 album ‘The Tortured Poets Department’, although Swift herself has remained coy about the specific interpretations of the songs in question.
Now, reports have emerged that Healy intends to return the favour on his band’s sixth album, with The Sun reporting that the record will include a track named ‘God Has Entered My Body’. The song will reportedly include the lyric, “Keep your head up Princess, your tiara is falling”.
Taylor Swift and Matty Healy seen leaving ‘The Electric Lady’ studio in Manhattan on May 16, 2023 in New York City. (Photo by Robert Kamau/GC Images)
This comes just months after Healy said in an interview with Doomscroll that he has no intention to write any music inspired by his short-term relationships.
“Last year I became a way more well-known public figure for loads of different reasons,” he said in November. “I think that a lot of artists, they 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.”
“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.”
According to fans, the title track of ‘The Tortured Poets Department’ saw Swift reference Healy, with lyrics like: “You smokеd then ate seven bars of chocolate / We declared Charlie Puth should be a bigger artist”.
Fans pointed out how Healy is a notorious smoker, often smoking on stage while performing, while “chocolate” could be a reference to The 1975’s song of the same name. Elsewhere on the title track, Swift seems to namedrop Lucy Dacus – with whom Healy used to be close friends.
Other fans speculated that ‘The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived’ was about Swift and Healy’s relationship. “Was any of it true? / Gazing at me starry-eyed / In your Jehovah’s Witness suit,” Swift sings. This seems to nod to Healy’s onstage outfit, in which he typically wears a suit that has been historically donned by Jehovah’s Witnesses.
In June last year, it was reported that Healy was left “blindsided” by the album, and a source claimed he found it “hilarious” because they were “never serious”.
Before then, it was reported that Healy was “uncomfortable” with the attention from the album but was “relieved” it wasn’t worse. He was also approached by paparazzi in Los Angeles and asked how he felt about his “Taylor diss track”. While it’s unclear which exact song the paparazzo was referring to, the ‘About You’ singer replied: “My diss track? Oh! I haven’t really listened to that much of it, but I’m sure it’s good.”
The 1975, meanwhile, haven’t released a new album since they dropped their fifth record, ‘Being Funny In A Foreign Language’, back in 2022. However, in February last year, Healy got fans talking when he revealed during a live show that they were currently working on their next LP.
It came as a surprise to many, as the band had shortly before hinted that they would be going on an “indefinite hiatus” after their 2024 ‘Still… At Their Very Best’ UK tour wrapped up in March.
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