Taylor Swift Fans Are Disappointed By Her Involvement With Matty Healy After He Was Accused Of Doing The Nazi Salute And Said It’d Be “Emasculating” To Date Her

Earlier this year, Taylor Swift fans were left shocked when it was reported that she had split from her boyfriend Joe Alwyn after six and a half years together.

Joe — who largely avoided the public eye — was the muse behind several of Taylor’s songs on her last five albums, and listeners were blindsided by the breakup.

Last week, the British tabloid, the Sun, reported that Taylor had moved on from Joe with The 1975 frontman, Matty Healy — who she was previously linked to in 2014.
A source explained: “She and Matty are madly in love. It’s super-early days, but it feels right. They first dated, very briefly, almost ten years ago but timings just didn’t work out.”

“They are both mᴀssively proud and excited about this relationship and, unlike Taylor’s last one — which was very much kept out of the spotlight, deliberately — she wants to ‘own’ this romance, and not hide it away,” the insider added.

Just two days after the news broke, Matty was spotted in the VIP tent at Taylor’s Eras tour in Nashville. He ended up attending all three shows at the weekend, and even performed with Taylor’s opening act, Phoebe Bridgers, on Saturday.

Entertainment Tonight later reported that Taylor and The 1975’s collaborator Jack Antonoff was the one who’d “reconnected” her and Matty. A source added: “Taylor has a crush on Matty, and they are having a good time hanging out. Matty also thinks Taylor is awesome and incredibly talented, too.”

However, the rumored new pairing has not gone down well with Taylor’s fans, who have fiercely criticized her decision to ᴀssociate with the British star.

This is due to Matty’s very recent history of incredibly problematic behavior, which has been broken down in a viral Twitter thread that includes a video of him seemingly doing the Nazi salute on stage in January.

Matty has even made nasty comments about Taylor herself in the past, saying that it would be “emasculating” to date her. Here is everything that you need to know about Matty’s controversies.

In case you didn’t know, The 1975 have been on tour these past few months, and Matty was raising eyebrows long before his highly publicized reconciliation with Taylor.

As mentioned, just days after International Holocaust Remembrance Day in January, Matty was accused of doing the Nazi salute while marching on stage during one of his shows.

His controversial comments about Taylor were made that same year, with Matty getting incredibly defensive when quizzed on whether or not he’d dated the popstar during an interview with Q magazine.

Speaking to Teen Vogue in 2016, Matty said: “In all of our videos, whenever we’ve used girls, we’re referencing the irony or the parody that should exist. In the ‘Girls’ video, for instance, they’re all in ridiculous lingerie, and they’re all white and skinny, but it was parody [of the music industry and society.]

And similarly to his fans’ defense of the allegations of racism and antisemitism that Matty faces, he has insisted that whenever the 1975 objectify women in their music videos they do it in an ironic way — suggesting that this makes it OK.

When one of the women said that they were a “little bit offended” by that remark, he argued: “You’re, like, a pretty girl, I’m going to have certain stereotypes.