Matty ’s reception has spark fierce backlash , with one person ask : “ Who made you the arbiter of what is and is n’t deleterious to group you ’re not a part of ? ”
In February,The 1975’s lead singerMatty Healycourted controversy during an appearance onThe Adam Friedland Showpodcast.
The three men laughed gleefully as they called Ice Spice “one of the Inuit Spice Girls,” a “chubby Chinese lady,” and “a fucking Eskimo.”
They also mocked Chinese and Hawaiian accents before Matty encouraged Nick and Adam to imitate what a Japanese person working in a concentration camp would sound like.
And here ’s audio of Matty Healy laughing as he encourages the boniface to do mock impressions of Japanese accents.pic.twitter.com/n7yhKvvSJw
Elsewhere in the podcast, Matty casually admitted to masturbating toBlack women being “brutalized”on a controversial hardcore pornography website. The content on this site focuses on the sexual humiliation and degradation of women of color, and is widely considered “abuse porn.”
The topic came up when Adam recalled Matty being caught with the site “blaring” on his TV after a group of friends left a party at his house.
“I was already flustered, I was dressed as ‘guy who is jacking off,’” Matty said, before confirming the name of the website and admitting that somebody was “just getting, like, brutalized” in the video. He then imitated the gagging noises that were being made in the porn.
The podcast episode ended up beingremovedfrom Spotify and Apple Music due to its harmful content, but remains live on its YouTube channel.
The two have known each other since 2014, and even though Matty previously said that it would be “emasculating” to date Taylor, the two werereportedto be “madly in love” at the start of May.
While neither star has publicly commented on their relationship, the two have beenpicturedandfilmedlooking cozy with one another, and Matty has been spottedenteringTaylor’sNew Yorkapartment. He has alsoattendedseveral of her recent concerts, standing in the VIP tent that is reserved for her inner circle.
tw // antisemitismwhy is no one talking about the fact matty healy did a h!tler salute on stage??pic.twitter.com / QXdza5gzuX
As a result, many of Taylor’s fans expressed theirdisappointmentat her choice to publicly affiliate herself with him, as well asgive him a platformon her sold-out Eras tour where he repeatedly performed alongside her opening act, Phoebe Bridgers.
His podcast remarksresurfacedto fresh outrage, with Taylor’s fans being left particularly upset by the details of his pornography consumption.
Speaking to the publication amid the online furor, it is explained that Matty chose to be on the podcast because “he wanted to do something that felt more like simply talking with his friends.”
He then dismissed the offense that his controversial appearance caused entirely by claiming: “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 Matty Healy.’ That doesn’t happen.”
“If it does, you’re either deluded or you are, sorry, a liar,” Matty added. “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, let me get as close to it as possible so you can see how good I am,’” he went on to insist. “And I kind of want them to do that, because they’re demonstrating something so base level.”
But many found Matty’s remarks reductive, and took to social media to point out that it’s entirely valid for people to feel hurt or offended by the things that he and the hosts had said.
“I can’t imagine the absolute lack of empathy required to truly believe that racist and mysoginistic commentary has no real impact on people. And that if it does,it means they’re mental and deluded? Likewhat the actual fuck,” one person wrote on aRedditforum.
“why is it that when these rich white men think of who is criticising racism they always come up with a hypothetical virtue signaller in their head? do they like… not think black women are real?” another asked.
“He’s such an ass and can’t comprehend the fact that women and POC can be appalled by white men brazenly saying bigoted shit and the general public will excuse it or laugh at it. As if it’s not a reminder of how fucked up the world is and how it hates women and minorities,” one more said.
“I’m so tired of white men hiding behind satire/edgy humor and pulling ‘it’s you who are wrong for getting offended by misogyny and racism because it’s just a joke!!!’ Because that’s all progressivism is to him - a joke,” they added.
Over on Twitter, someone wrote: “fuck matty healy for saying people are lying about being hurt by his actions, or that we’re ‘deluded’ and ‘mental’, or that we’re just being performative by calling it out. the people in the marginalised communities that he’s hurt have every right to be angry about what he’s done.”
fuck matty healy for saying people are lie about being pain by his actions , or that we ’re “ cozen ” and “ mental ” , or that we ’re just being performative by calling it out . the people in the marginalise communities that he ’s hurt have every right to be angry about what he ’s donepic.twitter.com/0GjZk22BL5
While one more concluded: “actually so fucked up to have your response to someone telling you you hurt them be ‘you’re either crazy or lying’ and also who made you the arbiter of what is and isn’t hurtful to groups you’re not a part of? dude literally thinks he’s the main character of social justice.”
in reality so eff up to have your reply to someone telling you you hurt them be " you ’re either unhinged or lie down " and also who made you the arbiter of what is and is n’t injurious to group you ’re not a part of ? dude literally thinks he ’s the independent character of social justicehttps://t.co/X60t1WO29 t
While Matty has now acknowledged the podcast controversy, Taylor has remained silent despite the growing backlash from her fans.
Understandably, there has been particular upset from Taylor’s Black, Jewish, and Muslim fans, and many of her followers have admitted tosellingtheir tickets to her upcoming shows andcancelingtheir album preorders because of her connection to Matty.
