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Last week,Taylor Swiftannounced that she had collaborated with American rapper Ice Spice for a new version of her 2022 song “Karma.”
“I’m a massive fan of this brilliant artist and after getting to know her I can confirm: she is THE ONE to watch,” she wrote at the time.
Um . SO much to tell you . I ’m a massive fan of this brilliant artist and after grow to know her I can reassert : she is THE ONE to watch . So delight to say that Karma have the incredible@icespicee_will be out TOMORROW night at MIDNIGHT ET as a part of the new Midnights…pic.twitter.com/OaRrHBWTUw
Explaining how the collab came to be, Taylor added that Ice Spice’s team hadapproached herbecause the up-and-coming star has been a fan of Taylor’s since she was a child.
But as wholesome as the situation may seem on the surface, there is adarker contextto this collaboration that rubbed many up the wrong way.
In fact, immediately after it was announced, Taylor was accused ofusing Ice Spiceto distract from thegrowing backlashsurrounding her rumored relationship withMatty Healy.
In case you missed it, just weeks after it was revealed that Taylor hadsplit fromher boyfriend of six years,Joe Alwyn, she wasreportedto be “madly in love” withThe 1975’s lead singer, Matty.
The two have known each other since 2014, and even though Matty previously insisted that it’d be “emasculating” to date Taylor, they have done little to dispel the speculation.
In addition toattendingseveral of her recent concert dates in a VIP tent with herbest friendsand family, Matty hasperformedon stage alongside Taylor’s opening act, Phoebe Bridgers.
He and Taylor were alsopicturedholding hands before they were spottedkissing, and the two werefilmedleaving a party together as well as himenteringher New York home.
But the apparent new romance has not been well received by Taylor’s fans, who arehugely disappointedby her association with Matty thanks to his long history of problematic behavior.
tw // antisemitismwhy is no one spill the beans about the fact matty healy did a h!tler salute on stage??pic.twitter.com / QXdza5gzuX
In February, Matty faced fierce backlash when he appeared onThe Adam Friedland Showpodcast and he and the hosts made such harmful remarks that Spotify and Apple Musicremovedthe episode from their platforms.
At one point in the conversation, Mattycasually admittedto masturbating to Black women being “brutalized” on a hardcore “abuse porn” website, and he also encouraged the other two men to do racist impersonations of a Japanese person working in a concentration camp.
And here ’s audio of Matty Healy laughing as he further the boniface to do mock impressions of Japanese accents.pic.twitter.com/n7yhKvvSJw
Matty, Adam Friedland, and Nick Mullen alsomade racist remarksabout Ice Spice. The three men were recorded laughing as they mocked Hawaiian and Chinese accents while referring to the rapper as “one of the Inuit Spice Girls,” a “chubby Chinese lady,” and “a fucking Eskimo.”
To her fans’ disappointment, Taylor has not acknowledged any of the concerns surrounding Matty. In fact, at her Massachusetts concert last weekend she appeared to actively dismiss the scrutiny as she pointedly told the crowd: “I’ve just never been this happy in my life in all aspects of my life ever before.”
As a result, Taylor has been branded “another complicit white woman,” and fans havecanceledtheir preorders for her upcoming album andsoldtheir tickets to her tour.
So it’s perhaps unsurprising that when Taylor announced a collab with the same rapper that her rumored boyfriend had made racist jibes about just three months ago, manyquestioned her intentions.
Taylor was called “insidiously calculated” as thediscourse eruptedonline, with one person tweeting: “Calculated afffff instead of addressing it straight-on, it’s, ‘Lemme collab to show that the racism was okay bcz look Ice Spice is collabing w/me!’ Atrocious behaviour.”
reckon afffff or else of speak it straight - on , it ’s , “ Lemme collab to show that the racial discrimination was all right bcz look Ice Spice is collabing w / me ! ” painful behaviour .
Another pointed out that this was the first time that Taylor had ever collaborated with a Black woman in her 17-year career as they called the timing “telling.”
The fact that this is her first collaboration with a black woman in her 17 year career is severalize
Others shared their disgust at Taylor “finding a way to profit” from Ice Spice amid Matty’s remarks, calling it “a text book example of white woman feminism. It’s convenient, manipulative and continues to shield and protect white men.”
ATikTokerwent so far asto theorizethat self-proclaimed “mastermind” Taylor had pre-empted the backlash that she and Matty would face, so set the wheels into motion for the Ice Spice collab as a “pre planned redemption arc.”
Fueling speculation that the only reason Taylor collaborated with Ice Spice is because of Matty’s appearance on his podcast, Adam retweeted an account reporting on the collab and simply added: “You’re welcome”.
You ’re welcomehttps://t.co/4Hz33Bz14Z
Commenting on aTikTokvideo about Adam’s tweet, one person wrote: “whoaaa so adam is verifying that this is damage control on her part.”
“ppls masks are slipping and it’s never been so obvious,” one more added in agreement.
“And people say taylor didn’t do this for PR…” another tweeted.
And people say taylor did n’t do this for PR…https://t.co/LRZWtRgUel
However, he has since had achange of heart, and in a new interview with theNew Yorkerhe said that anyone who is “hurt” by what he said is “either deluded” or “a liar.”
He defiantly added: “You’re either lying that you are hurt, or you’re a bit mental for being hurt.”
The publicationalso reportedthat Matty chose to appear onThe Adam Friedland Showbecause “he wanted to do something that felt more like simply talking with his friends” in lieu of traditional interviews.
