Matty Healy says he hasn’t ‘really listened’ to Taylor Swift’s ‘The Tortured Poets Department,’ the most streamed album in the world right now
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- Taylor Swift’s latest album, “The Tortured Poets Department,” is dominating the airwaves.
- But Matty Healy says he hasn’t “really listened to that much of it.”
- “I’m sure it’s good,” Healy said of Swift’s album.
Taylor Swift’s “The Tortured Poets Department” may have broken multiple streaming records, but Matty Healy says he hasn’t “really listened” to the album yet.
Healy, lead singer of the band The 1975, was asked by paparazzi about his views on his “Taylor diss track” on Wednesday.
“My diss track? Oh! I haven’t really listened to that much of it, but I’m sure it’s good,” Healy said of the album.
Healy’s response may surprise some, considering how fans have speculated that he is the subject of several songs on Swift’s album.
Healy was rumored to have been in a brief relationship with Swift in early 2023 following her split from Joe Alwyn. Swift is now dating Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce.
Eagled-eyed fans have speculated that the album’s title track is about Healy. The song opens with Swift singing about an ex-lover leaving his typewriter at her apartment.
Fans have taken the lyric to be a reference to Healy, who once said that he liked using typewriters as part of his creative process.
“The thing is with typewriters, and writing with pen to paper, there’s a kind of element of commitment that goes with the ceremony of it. Therefore, it requires you to concentrate a bit better,” Healy said in an interview with GQ in December 2018.
And even if one were to put aside the album’s possible references to Healy, one would’ve thought he would’ve listened to it by now, considering its sheer ubiquity.
On Wednesday, streaming giant Spotify said that Swift’s album had become the platform’s “most streamed album in a single week,” surpassing a billion streams since its release on Friday. Swift was also named the “most-streamed artist in a single day in Spotify history” on Saturday.
Representatives for Swift didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment from BI sent outside regular business hours.
