Though a lot of TTPD, which hits cabinets on Friday, April 19, is extremely anticipated to revolve round her break up from Joe Alwyn, a couple of of the file’s music titles trace that the pop star may also give listeners a glimpse into her romance with Healy, whom she briefly dated within the spring of final 12 months.
If Tortured Poets retells Swift’s story in chronological order of her life’s occasions, it’s potential the opening monitor, “Fortnite,” by means of tracks 5 and 6 — “So Lengthy, London” and “However Daddy, I Love Him” — will heart on Alwyn, 32. (The actor is British, in any case.)
Nevertheless, issues might take a flip at monitor 7, titled “Florida!!!,” which Swift cowrote with Florence Welch. Tampa, Florida is the place Swift was performing for her worldwide Eras Tour when her breakup with Alwyn was first introduced. The pair have been collectively for almost six years earlier than calling it quits for good in April 2023.
Lower than one month later, rumors swirled that Swift had moved on with Healy when he attended her Eras live shows in Nashville. The twosome, who each rely Jack Antonoff as a buddy and collaborator, have been first linked in 2014 once they have been seen sporting one another’s merch.
The twosome by no means confirmed a romance, and Healy later discovered himself in sizzling water when he claimed that it was “emasculating” so far somebody extra well-known than him.
“It’s simply fascinating to me how the world is about Taylor Swift,” he instructed Q Journal in 2016. “The explanation I point out that’s as a result of if I had [properly] gone out with Taylor Swift, I’d’ve been, ‘F–king hell, I’m not being Taylor Swift’s boyfriend.’ You realize, ‘F–ok. That.’” (He later walked again the remarks.)
Swift and Healy reconnected professionally in 2021 when Swift was crafting Midnights. In response to Healy, the pair labored on a “model” of the file that by no means made the ultimate reduce. Swift additionally popped up at a 1975 live performance in January 2022 in London to carry out her lead single, “Anti-Hero,” dwell for the primary time.
As soon as Swift formally known as it quits with Alwyn, she and Healy sparked relationship hypothesis once they have been noticed collectively on a number of events, even holding fingers whereas at a restaurant in New York Metropolis in Might 2023. They fueled rumors additional when each of them mouthed the identical phrase at separate occasions, seemingly saying, “That is about you, I really like you, you know the way you’re,” earlier than launching into love songs.
Issues took a flip for the more severe when feedback Healy made throughout a February 2023 episode of “The Adam Friedland Present” podcast resurfaced on-line. Within the interview, Healy mocked rapper Ice Spice — who labored with Swift on a remix of “Karma” — and her ethnicity. (Ice Spice later shared that Healy had apologized “a bunch of instances” for his phrases.)
By June 2023, Swift and Healy had gone their separate methods. “Taylor and Matt are now not romantically concerned,” a supply solely instructed Us Weekly on the time. “That they had enjoyable collectively, but it surely was by no means critical.”
Many followers imagine Healy’s problematic conduct factored into the break up, which is why TTPD songs “Responsible as Sin,” “I Can Repair Him (No Actually I Can)” and “The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived” are rumored to be about The 1975 frontman.
“I can virtually hear Taylor Swift singing ‘I can repair him, no actually I can’ in essentially the most sarcastic tone,” one individual wrote through X, whereas one other mentioned, “Did you actually suppose Taylor was going to put in writing a music known as ‘I Can Repair Him’ and have it not be about Matty Healy?”
A 3rd fan added, “‘The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived’ is clearly about Matty Healy. It’s not a few long run boyfriend.”
Others identified that Swift has typically sung about fearing that she might not discover a accomplice who can deal with her extremely publicized life in songs like “Peace,” “The Archer” and “Anti-Hero.” TTPD’s monitor 10, “Who’s Afraid of Little Previous Me?,” may additionally contact on the subject, referring again to Healy’s previous points about relationship somebody with larger celeb standing.
“If ‘Who’s Afraid of Little Previous Me’ is even reasonably within the realm of being about somebody who made her really feel small all of the sudden begging her to not use her songwriting energy in opposition to them now that it’s look ing like they’re going to separate I’ll truly inconsolable,” one individual wrote of the music through X.
Though Swift has not confirmed who her songs on TTPD will probably be about, she did share throughout her Melbourne, Australia Eras Tour live performance final month that the album was a “lifeline” for her throughout a tough time in her life.
“It kind of jogged my memory of why songwriting is one thing that really will get me by means of life,” she instructed the gang, “and I’ve by no means had an album the place I’ve wanted songwriting greater than I wanted it on Tortured Poets.”
The Tortured Poets Division hits cabinets on Friday, April 19.
