Taylor Swift’s latest album, The Tortured Poets Department, has been a hot take, and it’s not even over yet – and now Matty Healy is apparently ‘taken aback’ by the singer writing about him and their fling in her lyrics.
Taylor Swift draws inspiration from real life to pen some of her iconic lyrics in her record-breaking releases. Aside from memories, loved ones and stories she likes to tell in her head, it’s also believed she writes about her ex-boyfriends throughout her music. The celebrity has been linked to singing about all of her ex-lovers, from Taylor Lautner and Joe Alwyn. Now, a source says Matty Healy, from 1975, was ‘taken aback’ by being mentioned in her latest album.
Matty Healy was ‘blindsided’ by Taylor Swift lyrics
The frontman was first linked to Tay-Tay last year, after she broke up with her partner Joe Alwyn in April 2023.
The duo dated for six years, and she even wrote a song about her love for Joe, called London Boy, who she reportedly locked eyes with for the first time at the Met Gala in 2017.
The pair called it quits, and she was connected to the 1975 singer in a short-lived romance. They didn’t become the next celebrity couple, but fans were pretty hyped over the unlikely chemistry.
But it seems their Love Story ended a mere few weeks later, and they were done by June.
Although, the 34-year-old wasn’t down for long, because she ended up meeting tight end Travis Kelce at the end of the summer and the rest is Traylor history.
Fans believe a number of tracks on her latest album, released in April this year, are written about Matty Healy, with Taylor Swift referring to him in the ‘The Smallest Man Whoever Lived’ track.
But according to the 35-year-old’s friends, he didn’t expect to be referenced at all in her catalog because they weren’t even that ‘serious’.
‘He loves the attention’
A source said to US Weekly: “He loves the attention it’s brought to him, [but] he also thinks it’s hilarious because at no time [were they] ever serious.”
They added he was ‘blindsided’ by Taylor’s new album, and the supposed link to their fling.
“You s**t-talked me under the table, talking rings and talking cradles,” she sings on the song loml.
“You and I go from one kiss to getting married/Still alive, killing time at the cemetery/Never quite buried/In your suit and tie, in the nick of time.”
The insider says: “For her to be saying things about baby carriages …and living together – he says it had never even come up. He’s taking it in his stride.”
But when Matty Healy was asked about his reaction to her music when the album dropped, he didn’t even realize.
Paparazzi asked him the day after it came out, how he felt about the ‘diss track’. He said: “My diss track? Oh! I haven’t really listened to that much of it, but I’m sure it’s good”.
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