Taylor Swift Fans Slam Singer’s Controversial Ex for Dig About ‘Casual’ Relationships

Swift briefly dated the 1975 frontman in May 2023.

Taylor Swift; Matty Healy

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Some Taylor Swift fans appear to have even more “Bad Blood” with the singer’s highly controversial ex-boyfriend, Matty Healy.

Healy, the frontman for The 1975 who briefly dated Swift in May 2023, recently made a comment looking down on the idea of writing about “casual” relationships in his songs, and Swifties seem to think he was making a dig at the “Anti-Hero” songstress.

Healy, 35, sat down for the Tuesday, Oct. 22 episode of the Doomscroll podcast, where he insisted his next album will stay away from songs about his casual relationships, calling the idea “just not interesting.”

“If I made a record about 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, I think that’s an obvious thing to draw from. I’m just not interested in it,” he explained.

“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 just not interesting,” the “Chocolate” singer added.

But it wasn’t lost on Swifties that Healy was largely describing the same method Swift, 34, is known for, as the majority of her albums are autobiographical, especially her latest, The Tortured Poets Department.

In fact, Healy—who also sparked dating rumors with Swift all the way back in 2014—is widely speculated to have served as the subject of several tracks off the 31-song double album, especially “The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived,” “Fresh Out the Slammer,” “I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can),” and the album’s title track.

Many of Swift’s lyrics that are presumed to be about Healy come across as anything but casual, which is why tons of fans were put off by the apparent dig he made in the new interview.

“Men thinking everything is always casual really needs to be studied more,” one user on TikTok wrote after hearing what Healy said during the podcast.

“so sad he cannot be classy about it,” someone else added.

The “Love If It We Made It” crooner was already unpopular among many Swifties before his latest comments, as some of his problematic behaviors in the past resurfaced last year when he reconnected with Swift following her split from long-term boyfriend Joe Alwyn.

Many also believe that the public backlash to her romance with Healy is what inspired the TTPD song “But Daddy I Love Him,” which has since been added to the Eras Tour setlist.