An insider has revealed that Matty Healy, lead singer of The 1975, is feeling “uncomfortable” with the attention he’s receiving from Taylor Swift’s latest album, “The Tortured Poets Department”. Fans had been quick to speculate that much of the LP was inspired by Taylor’s brief romance with Healy, and suggested that various tracks, including the title track, contained references to the relationship. Healy himself previously described the album as a “diss track”, although he went on to say that he’d only heard a bit of it and believed it to be “good”.
According to one source, Healy is not “a fan of the new unwanted attention” in the wake of the album’s release, especially since he is now with someone new. A second source added that Healy’s family had been “worried” that the songs would “rip [him] apart” and that the lead singer fears that every Taylor fan in the world will now think he’s a villain. However, this same insider suggested that Healy was “relieved” that, in the end, the songs were not any worse.
Healy and Swift were briefly linked in 2016, but Healy was conscious of the potential for feeling “emasculated” by the relationship given Taylor’s fame. “It’s not really anything to talk about, because if she wasn’t Taylor Swift we wouldn’t be talking about her,” he said at the time. “She wasn’t a big impact on my life. It’s just interesting to me how interested the world is about Taylor Swift”. Meanwhile, in its review, “NME” said “The Tortured Poets Department” was plagued by Swift’s ongoing attempts to obtain superstardom, and noted that the star was too consumed with the pitfalls and negative opinions that can come with fame.
Despite Healy’s reluctance, Swift’s album has been a hit with fans, with tracks like “But Daddy I Love Him” garnering significant attention. The singer’s 11th LP is generating a lot of buzz, with many fans eagerly exploring the themes that Swift has explored in the new album
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