Taylor Swift’s boyfriend appears to have dug himself into an even deeper hole with his latest response to the backlash over his comments.
which explored his provocative persona through interviews with him and some of his—and Swift’s—musical peers, like Jack Antonoff. Of course, Healy’s responses to some of the backlash he’s accrued over the past year got the most attention on social media.
Specifically, the 34-year-old addressed the internet backlash to his appearance on the podcast “The Adam Friedland Show” in February where hosts Friedland and Nick Mullen referred to Ice Spice an “Inuit Spice Girl,” and “chubby Chinese lady,” while using Chinese and Hawaiian accents to mimic her. Healy can be heard laughing with the hosts and at another pointto the “Ghetto Gaggers” porn website that fetishizes the abuse of Black women.
Asked by writer Jia Tolentino whether his appearance on the “dirtbag left” podcast was a deliberate provocation, Healy replied, “A little bit, 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 Matty Healy.’ That doesn’t happen.
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