Matty Healy‘s kept pretty quiet about his relationship with Taylor Swift, but on a recent visit to the Doomscroll podcast, The 1975 singer seemed to take a jab at his ex when discussing musical inspiration, noting his disinterest in making albums about “casual romantic liaisons.”
He prefaced the comments by vaguely speaking about how the relationship threw him into the limelight last year. “Last year I became a way more well-known public figure for loads of different reasons,” he admitted. “The only reason that I was interested in is what I was doing. I think that a lot of artists, they become very interested in their lore, or they become interested in the things that have happened outside of their art that people know about and they want to address that, and fair enough.”
“Honestly, I would kind of just be lying if I made a record about, I don’t know, 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,” he added. “That’s an obvious thing to draw from, and I’m just not interested in [it]. 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 not interesting.”
Although he didn’t specifically call out Swift, their relationship only lasted around a month and fans speculate that many songs on the pop star’s latest album The Tortured Poets Department are about their brief romance. Since calling it quits, Swift started dating NFL star Travis Kelce and Healy got engaged to model/musician Gabbriette Bechtel.
Listen to the full podcast episode below.