This Matty Healy Quote May Prove Taylor Swift Wrote This Song About Him
April 22, 2024
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Swifties are in a frenzy following the rediscovery of a video featuring Matty Healy sharing his love for typewriters. With Taylor Swift’s latest album The Tortured Poets Department now released, a particular line is leaving Swifties convinced that the title track is about him.
The specific lyric goes, “You left your typewriter at my apartment / Straight from the Tortured Poets Department / I think some things I never say / Like, ‘Who uses typewriters anyway?'”
GQ reposted a clip of Healy discussing typewriters from a 2018 interview. “It’s not that there’s any kind of like, romance to having a notebook, but I really like typewriters, as well,” he shared. “I don’t have one with me because that is really impractical, but the thing is with typewriters and writing on pen to paper, there’s kind of an element of like commitment that goes with the ceremony of it. Therefore, it requires you to concentrate a bit better.”
Matthew Healy performs onstage with Phoebe Bridgers in the set opener during the Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour at Lincoln Financial Field on May 12, 2023 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Fans are theorizing about which… Matthew Healy performs onstage with Phoebe Bridgers in the set opener during the Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour at Lincoln Financial Field on May 12, 2023 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Fans are theorizing about which songs on the ‘TTPD’ album are about Healy.
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The outlet saw the parallels, posting the video with the caption, “Just gonna leave this here… #mattyhealy1975 #mattyhealy #ttpd #typewriter.”
Swift and The 1975 member were romantically linked in 2023 following her breakup with Joe Alwyn, before her current relationship with Travis Kelce started. Interestingly, the singers had crossed paths almost a decade prior. Back in 2014, Healy revealed they had exchanged numbers. Their connection came to light once again in January 2023 when Swift made a surprise appearance at a 1975 concert, delivering a live rendition of “Anti-Hero” for the first time.
Also in 2023, following the news of her split from Alwyn, fans noticed an overlap in their respective performances — Healy’s on May 3 and Swift’s on May 5 — they mouthed the same words onstage: “This one is about you. You know who you are. I love you.”
Fans are also speculating that a few other songs on the TTPD album reference her relationship with Healy, including “The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived,” “I Can Fix Him (No, I Really Can),” “But Daddy I Love Him,” and “Fresh Out the Slammer.”
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