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The 1975 frontman Matty Healy’s mum Denise Welch responds to question about Taylor Swift’s ‘Tortured Poet’s Department’

The 1975 frontman Matty Healy, has shared a response after being asked about Taylor Swift‘s ‘Tortured Poet’s Department’.Healy and Swift were romantically linked for a short period in 2023 and, while unconfirmed, it is strongly believed that Healy is the subject of several songs on ‘The Tortured Poets Department’, namely its title track, ‘The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived’ and others.Now, Healy’s mother – who has previously said that she is seen as “the Virgin Mary” among The 1975‘s fanbase – has responded after being asked about the album during an episode of Loose Women.On yesterday’s episode of the show (April 25), Welch’s co-star Nadia Sawalha addressed the elephant in the room by saying: “Taylor Swift has got a new album out. Have you heard it Denise?”Jokingly, Welch responded: “I wasn’t aware she had an album out at all, I haven’t heard anything to do with it,” before the live audience broke into laughter and guest Dermot O’Leary added, “It’s suddenly all become very awkward.”She continued, shutting down the conversation by saying: “I wish her all the best”.
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The 1975’s music undergoes streaming rise amid reports of Taylor Swift romance
The 1975’s music has undergone a streaming rise amid reports of a romance between Matty Healy and Taylor Swift.Swift broke up with her partner of six years, Joe Alwyn, earlier this year, with reports then following that Swift was now dating Healy.After the reports emerged, streams of The 1975’s music increased by 14 per cent between May 3-11 (via Consequence of Sound).Last week, as Phoebe Bridgers opened up Swift’s second of three shows at Texas’ Nissan Stadium, Healy joined her on stage, playing guitar – something else that could have contributed to the rise in streams via Swift’s fans.Towards the end of her set, Bridgers was joined by her Boygenius bandmates Lucy Dacus and Julien Baker to perform their track ‘Cool About It’ as well as Bridgers’ own ‘Graceland Too’ and ‘I Know The End’.She then introduced her band, including “Mr. Matt Healy” who’d been onstage for the entire set, playing guitar while wearing a skeleton onesie.The previous evening, Bridgers and Healy were filmed dancing to ‘Shake It Off’ after Bridgers joined Swift to give their collaborative track ‘Nothing New’ its live debut.Last year, Swift put in an appearance during the UK leg of The 1975’s ‘At Their Very Best Tour’, giving ‘Anti-Hero’ its live debut and covering their iconic track ‘The City’ at London’s O2 Arena. Later in the set, Healy joked about recent gigs that saw him kissing members of the crowd at their request.
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The 1975 announce massive summer 2023 London Finsbury Park show
The 1975 have announced their biggest ever UK headline show at London’s Finsbury Park this summer – find all the details below and buy tickets here.The band will perform at the 40,000 plus capacity show on Sunday, July 2, 2023, alongside a huge line-up of other acts including Cigarettes After Sex, Bleachers, The Japanese House and American Football, with “many more” still to be announced.The announcement comes after the band, who have just wrapped their UK ‘At Their Very Best’ tour, teased yesterday (February 12) that details of their “biggest UK show” would be arriving this week.Pre-sale tickets go live this Wednesday (February 15) at 9am GMT, before general sale this Friday (February 17) at 9am GMT. You can purchase your tickets here.A press release promises a “monumental day” of “unbeatable live music” as the band bring the ‘At Their Very Best’ tour back to London, adding that more acts will be announced “imminently”.“The band is bringing with them an array of acts with their own unique takes on pop and rock for an unsurpassable day of live music in N4, London,” the press release reads.Back in 2020, the Manchester band were forced to scrap their original plans to headline Finsbury Park due to COVID-19.Initially billed as “the greenest show Finsbury Park has ever seen”, The 1975 had been set to headline the one-day event on July 11.
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The 1975’s Matty Healy on his Rage Against The Machine comments at Leeds Festival: “We fucking love Rage so much”
The 1975‘s Matty Healy has looked back on the on-stage comments he made at Leeds Festival about replacing Rage Against The Machine as Reading & Leeds 2022 headliners, clarifying that he and his bandmates “fucking love Rage so much”.The 1975 were called up to replace RATM as headliners just two weeks before the twin festivals took place in August, with the latter pulling out due to frontman Zack de la Rocha’s ongoing leg injury.Speaking on stage at Leeds Festival on August 26, Healy told the crowd: “I’m sorry we’re not Rage Against The Machine, but who’s Rage Against The Machine?“I mean, give it up for the greatest rock band of the previous generation, ladies and gentlemen please… Being literally in Rage Against The Machine and having a gammy leg is quite funny, though.”Healy, who subsequently praised RATM during The 1975’s Reading headline set two nights later, later clarified his comments following a social media backlash, adding that he intended to say: “I’m sorry we’re not Rage Against The Machine, but who can be Rage Against The Machine?”Speaking to NME in The 1975’s latest Big Read about his RATM comments, Healy said: “I watched it back and I was like, ‘That delivery was so bad!’“There are no records that me and George [Daniel, drummer] know more than Rage. Even ‘Renegades’.
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The 1975’s Matty Healy on cancel culture and why he previously quit Twitter
The 1975 frontman Matty Healy has opened up about his feelings on ‘cancel culture’, and his reasons for quitting Twitter after a controversial post back in 2020.Speaking to NME for this week’s Big Read cover story to mark the release of their fifth album, ‘Being Funny In A Foreign Language’, the frontman discussed deactivating his Twitter account back in 2020 following backlash to a Tweet he made after the death of George Floyd.Following Floyd’s death at the hands of policeman in the US and the subsequent public outcry and growth of the Black Lives Matter movement, Healy Tweeted: “If you truly believe that ‘ALL LIVES MATTER’ you need to stop facilitating the end of black ones.”The post also shared the video to The 1975’s single ‘Love It If We Made It’, which features the lyrics “selling melanin and then suffocate the black men / Start with misdemeanours and we’ll make a business out of them“. Many Twitter users then accused Healy of appropriating Black Lives Matter to sell and promote his own music, before he apologised for any upset and deleted his account.Speaking to NME for this week’s Big Read, Healy told us: “By that point, my reaction in the room to all that Twitter shit was like, ‘Oh fuck off! You know that I’m not using this as an opportunity to monetise the half-a-pence I get paid for a fucking YouTube play’.
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Matty Healy on The 1975 being a “post-Arctic Monkeys” band
The 1975 frontman Matty Healy has spoken to NME about his group being “post-Arctic Monkeys” – and how they could “still be the most important band” of the decade ahead.Speaking to NME for this week’s Big Read cover story to mark the release of their fifth album, ‘Being Funny In A Foreign Language’, Healy discussed the legacy and future of The 1975, as well as how he feels about being labelled as a ‘band’.Speaking in 2018, Healy hailed Arctic Monkeys as “the band of the 2000s” with The 1975 the defining band of the 2010s. Asked today about how he felt about his group’s standing for the decade ahead, Healy replied: “I think we could still be the most important band of the ‘20s, – I’ve got a prediction that we will be, but we’re starting to get into a semantic argument”.Healy then admitted that “Arctic Monkeys are still relevant and making amazing records and are still a band” who could “always be around if they wanted to” (as well as revealing that he’s “obsessed with bands like Fontaines D.C.”), but argued that culture is no longer necessarily aligned with the idea of “white guys with guitars changing the world” and that The 1975 shouldn’t perhaps even be considered as a traditional band.“With us, you need to take us out of the ‘bands’ world and put us next to Lana [Del Rey], Taylor [Swift], Frank Ocean and Kendrick [Lamar],” he said.
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