Taylor Swift's Rumored Boyfriend Matty Healy Opens Up About Controversial Ice Spice Podcast Comments
31.05.2023 - 17:45
/ etonline.com
Matty Healy is shrugging off the backlash he received following his appearance on a podcast whose hosts made disparaging comments about Ice Spice. In a recent profile, The 1975 frontman addressed the controversy and said the criticism he received is essentially virtue signaling.Healy found himself embroiled in controversy over his February appearance on podcast, in which the 34-year-old singer revealed he had actually slid into Ice Spice's DMs. The 23-year-old rapper — who recently collaborated with Healy's rumored girlfriend, Taylor Swift, and performed onstage with her over the weekend at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey — never responded to Healy's DMs.The hosts, Friedland and Nick Mullen, then proceeded to crack jokes at Spice's expense (the rapper is of Nigerian and Dominican decent) by exaggerating Inuit accents.
The hosts also made impressions of hypothetical Japanese guards at German concentrations camps. Though he did not take part in talking with an accent, Healy did laugh along with the hosts. In the profile, Healy, who is a self-proclaimed «bit of a joker,» was asked if he baited his fans on purpose, which elicited an answer that downplayed the strong reaction.«A little bit,» he said.
«But it doesn't actually matter. Nobody is sitting there at night slumped at their computer, and their boyfriend comes over and goes, 'What's wrong, darling?' and they go, 'It's just this thing with Matt Healy.' That doesn't happen.»When the writer, Jia Tolentino, said «maybe it does,» Healy doubled down.«If it does,» he said, «you're either deluded or you are, sorry, a liar.
You're either lying that you are hurt, or you're a bit mental for being hurt. It's just people going, 'Oh, there's a bad thing over there,
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