The real Matty Healy

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I discovered The 1975 after their performance on The Tonight Show in 2022. I was shocked at how good Matty sounded for a smoker in his 30s, singing while chewing gum, dancing and playing the guitar. As my DCs like to say, he’s such a vibe!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJYTYevbI-o

You should see his performance at Madison Square Garden and especially at the Reading Festival 2023 performance, drinking a bottle of wine and sounding BETTER after having a swig of it!

https://youtu.be/qu2QXKDNoWs

This too is awesome: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epjQAHfTXfo
Matty Healy is such a showman.

By the way, their stage set up...someone once said this is the inside of the Lover house on the Eras tour, down to the staircase and different rooms.

When he sings Fallingforyou I imagine his lyrics are describing her house (his set), “All we need’s my bike and your enormous house.” lol. This one is my favorite, though.

https://youtu.be/PwlFzW-tgTs

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:He’s ugly, whiny, clearly a homosexual, and his mum is a no talent actress, and also, an insufferable and thirsty attention seeker.

I find him beautiful, smart, and talented. There is a reason why the cool girls in the music and modeling worlds have all wanted him at one point or another.

I didn’t even know this guy existed until Taylor.
Now I love the 1975. The fact that they were each others muse for decades makes me wonder if they’ll be able to replicate that passion in future music. It’s lightening in a bottle and they’ve been outed. It will never be the same. This has been going on since 1989 where Taylor and Matty collaborated on Slut! which went to the vault. Every album since then is all Matty coded.

Same. I run marathons and am always looking for new music to listen to while I train. I discovered The 1975 after TTPD too. They are cool and have many catchy songs. Matty writes hilarious yet very interesting and meaningful lyrics. Occasionally he sounds pretentious, but he is a brilliant lyricist and probably knows it too.

I went back and re-listened to all of Taylor’s discography and looked for the clues. I now understand and appreciate her ability to write haunting lyrics with double meanings and swirl a secret love into her poems. I am sure it was obvious to him that her songs were written for him, while the general public remained oblivious.

You listened to hundreds of hours of a band’s catalog and then thousands of hours re-listening to TS’s catalog to sleuth clues about a relationship in your head? Totally normal.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He’s ugly, whiny, clearly a homosexual, and his mum is a no talent actress, and also, an insufferable and thirsty attention seeker.

I find him beautiful, smart, and talented. There is a reason why the cool girls in the music and modeling worlds have all wanted him at one point or another.

I didn’t even know this guy existed until Taylor.
Now I love the 1975. The fact that they were each others muse for decades makes me wonder if they’ll be able to replicate that passion in future music. It’s lightening in a bottle and they’ve been outed. It will never be the same. This has been going on since 1989 where Taylor and Matty collaborated on Slut! which went to the vault. Every album since then is all Matty coded.

Same. I run marathons and am always looking for new music to listen to while I train. I discovered The 1975 after TTPD too. They are cool and have many catchy songs. Matty writes hilarious yet very interesting and meaningful lyrics. Occasionally he sounds pretentious, but he is a brilliant lyricist and probably knows it too.

I went back and re-listened to all of Taylor’s discography and looked for the clues. I now understand and appreciate her ability to write haunting lyrics with double meanings and swirl a secret love into her poems. I am sure it was obvious to him that her songs were written for him, while the general public remained oblivious.

You listened to hundreds of hours of a band’s catalog and then thousands of hours re-listening to TS’s catalog to sleuth clues about a relationship in your head? Totally normal.

I’m not this poster, but I get it. These two people are some of the best songwriters of their generation, if not the best. Their works will be studied in the future. As far as I know there hasn’t really been a situation like this in music. Therefore, I don’t think it’s that weird to try to make connections. It is art.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This thread is really creepy. Middle aged women spamming fan fiction for 18 pages about some bisexual nepo baby's fling with a pop star a few years ago.

If you could change your perspective to: women who care about poetry, star crossed lovers and epic love stories in the likes of Romeo & Juliet - discussing how the most famous entertainer in the world was down bad for a man for a decade, kept it all a secret, and he inspired her best work...Then it is not creepy but rather fascinating, don't you think?

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Anonymous wrote:I really think Maroon is about him!

Snow on the beach is, 100%

I agree. The intro sounds like the beginning of About You. And the line “your eyes are flying saucers from another planet” gives it away.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He’s ugly, whiny, clearly a homosexual, and his mum is a no talent actress, and also, an insufferable and thirsty attention seeker.

I find him beautiful, smart, and talented. There is a reason why the cool girls in the music and modeling worlds have all wanted him at one point or another.

I didn’t even know this guy existed until Taylor.
Now I love the 1975. The fact that they were each others muse for decades makes me wonder if they’ll be able to replicate that passion in future music. It’s lightening in a bottle and they’ve been outed. It will never be the same. This has been going on since 1989 where Taylor and Matty collaborated on Slut! which went to the vault. Every album since then is all Matty coded.

Same. I run marathons and am always looking for new music to listen to while I train. I discovered The 1975 after TTPD too. They are cool and have many catchy songs. Matty writes hilarious yet very interesting and meaningful lyrics. Occasionally he sounds pretentious, but he is a brilliant lyricist and probably knows it too.

I went back and re-listened to all of Taylor’s discography and looked for the clues. I now understand and appreciate her ability to write haunting lyrics with double meanings and swirl a secret love into her poems. I am sure it was obvious to him that her songs were written for him, while the general public remained oblivious.

You listened to hundreds of hours of a band’s catalog and then thousands of hours re-listening to TS’s catalog to sleuth clues about a relationship in your head? Totally normal.

I think this is one maybe two posters.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He’s ugly, whiny, clearly a homosexual, and his mum is a no talent actress, and also, an insufferable and thirsty attention seeker.

I find him beautiful, smart, and talented. There is a reason why the cool girls in the music and modeling worlds have all wanted him at one point or another.

I didn’t even know this guy existed until Taylor.
Now I love the 1975. The fact that they were each others muse for decades makes me wonder if they’ll be able to replicate that passion in future music. It’s lightening in a bottle and they’ve been outed. It will never be the same. This has been going on since 1989 where Taylor and Matty collaborated on Slut! which went to the vault. Every album since then is all Matty coded.

Same. I run marathons and am always looking for new music to listen to while I train. I discovered The 1975 after TTPD too. They are cool and have many catchy songs. Matty writes hilarious yet very interesting and meaningful lyrics. Occasionally he sounds pretentious, but he is a brilliant lyricist and probably knows it too.

I went back and re-listened to all of Taylor’s discography and looked for the clues. I now understand and appreciate her ability to write haunting lyrics with double meanings and swirl a secret love into her poems. I am sure it was obvious to him that her songs were written for him, while the general public remained oblivious.

You listened to hundreds of hours of a band’s catalog and then thousands of hours re-listening to TS’s catalog to sleuth clues about a relationship in your head? Totally normal.

Hundreds or thousands of hours?! Lady, how long do you really think 5 albums take to listen to? Five for The 1975 (about 5 hours) and the last 6-7 for Taylor (about 7 hours)! For someone who trains for marathons, that can be covered in a week, max.
Smh.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He’s ugly, whiny, clearly a homosexual, and his mum is a no talent actress, and also, an insufferable and thirsty attention seeker.

I find him beautiful, smart, and talented. There is a reason why the cool girls in the music and modeling worlds have all wanted him at one point or another.

I didn’t even know this guy existed until Taylor.
Now I love the 1975. The fact that they were each others muse for decades makes me wonder if they’ll be able to replicate that passion in future music. It’s lightening in a bottle and they’ve been outed. It will never be the same. This has been going on since 1989 where Taylor and Matty collaborated on Slut! which went to the vault. Every album since then is all Matty coded.

Same. I run marathons and am always looking for new music to listen to while I train. I discovered The 1975 after TTPD too. They are cool and have many catchy songs. Matty writes hilarious yet very interesting and meaningful lyrics. Occasionally he sounds pretentious, but he is a brilliant lyricist and probably knows it too.

I went back and re-listened to all of Taylor’s discography and looked for the clues. I now understand and appreciate her ability to write haunting lyrics with double meanings and swirl a secret love into her poems. I am sure it was obvious to him that her songs were written for him, while the general public remained oblivious.

You listened to hundreds of hours of a band’s catalog and then thousands of hours re-listening to TS’s catalog to sleuth clues about a relationship in your head? Totally normal.

I think this is one maybe two posters.

More than that! I’m happy to see I’m not the only one intrigued by the whole Matty/Taylor secret love affair and the poetry / music / art it inspired. Better question…Why do miserable people like you come on to threads like this one just to crap on other people? Like why even bother to click on it? Are you that bored and don’t have any interests of your own?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He’s ugly, whiny, clearly a homosexual, and his mum is a no talent actress, and also, an insufferable and thirsty attention seeker.

I find him beautiful, smart, and talented. There is a reason why the cool girls in the music and modeling worlds have all wanted him at one point or another.

I didn’t even know this guy existed until Taylor.
Now I love the 1975. The fact that they were each others muse for decades makes me wonder if they’ll be able to replicate that passion in future music. It’s lightening in a bottle and they’ve been outed. It will never be the same. This has been going on since 1989 where Taylor and Matty collaborated on Slut! which went to the vault. Every album since then is all Matty coded.

Same. I run marathons and am always looking for new music to listen to while I train. I discovered The 1975 after TTPD too. They are cool and have many catchy songs. Matty writes hilarious yet very interesting and meaningful lyrics. Occasionally he sounds pretentious, but he is a brilliant lyricist and probably knows it too.

I went back and re-listened to all of Taylor’s discography and looked for the clues. I now understand and appreciate her ability to write haunting lyrics with double meanings and swirl a secret love into her poems. I am sure it was obvious to him that her songs were written for him, while the general public remained oblivious.

You listened to hundreds of hours of a band’s catalog and then thousands of hours re-listening to TS’s catalog to sleuth clues about a relationship in your head? Totally normal.

I think this is one maybe two posters.

+1
I don't think this is a whole cohort of DCUmoms, but I'm sure the reddits are crazy full of Matty fans and swifties.
I keep checking this thread for any new tidbits on Matty. I think he's very intelligent and talented. The interviews I have seen have been gold. I don't care about taylor. Thanks to everyone posting links since I can't be arsed to hunt this stuff down myself.

[Anonymous]

HOLY vocals: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8kWcsVd/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He’s ugly, whiny, clearly a homosexual, and his mum is a no talent actress, and also, an insufferable and thirsty attention seeker.

I find him beautiful, smart, and talented. There is a reason why the cool girls in the music and modeling worlds have all wanted him at one point or another.

I didn’t even know this guy existed until Taylor.
Now I love the 1975. The fact that they were each others muse for decades makes me wonder if they’ll be able to replicate that passion in future music. It’s lightening in a bottle and they’ve been outed. It will never be the same. This has been going on since 1989 where Taylor and Matty collaborated on Slut! which went to the vault. Every album since then is all Matty coded.

Same. I run marathons and am always looking for new music to listen to while I train. I discovered The 1975 after TTPD too. They are cool and have many catchy songs. Matty writes hilarious yet very interesting and meaningful lyrics. Occasionally he sounds pretentious, but he is a brilliant lyricist and probably knows it too.

I went back and re-listened to all of Taylor’s discography and looked for the clues. I now understand and appreciate her ability to write haunting lyrics with double meanings and swirl a secret love into her poems. I am sure it was obvious to him that her songs were written for him, while the general public remained oblivious.

You listened to hundreds of hours of a band’s catalog and then thousands of hours re-listening to TS’s catalog to sleuth clues about a relationship in your head? Totally normal.

I think this is one maybe two posters.

I've posted a couple times at best in this thread. So happy to see all the other posts. It's a great story, maybe the best pop music irl story ever. I hope there are more pages, but think its unlikely and am, as maylors say, about to leave the restaurant. Nonetheless, there are a lot more than two of us enthralled by this.

[Anonymous]

I’ve always been interested in symbolism and find Taylor’s use of colors, in particular blue, fascinating. Fans, myself included, assumed that blue in her songs was a reference to Joe because of the color of his eyes (and his depression), but looking back, that wasn’t always the case.

In her song Colors (2015), Halsey described Matty Healy as blue:
“Everything is blue
His pills, his hands, his jeans
And now I'm covered in the colors
Pulled apart at the seams
And it's blue
And it's blue.”

TS thought of Matty as blue too. Maybe because she views him as a poet with a tortured heart, deep as an ocean, and he is a “sad boy”?

Whatever the reason, her use of blue to represent him and red for herself was a reference to them all along. For example, in the b&w Fortnight video, the only color she uses in the entire video is blue smoke coming from his typewriter and red coming from hers, interweaving in the air. There is also red and blue juxtaposition in Peace on Folklore.

“It’s blue, the feeling I've got” in Cruel Summer.

It’s possible “never seen that color blue” in Delicate is about him too; that one is a question mark in my mind. Figuratively, it could mean I’ve never felt that way about another man or never met someone before who feels so deeply, like I do. Later in Illicit Affairs she says, “You showed me colors you know I can't see with anyone else”, and I am convinced that song is about Matty.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’ve always been interested in symbolism and find Taylor’s use of colors, in particular blue, fascinating. Fans, myself included, assumed that blue in her songs was a reference to Joe because of the color of his eyes (and his depression), but looking back, that wasn’t always the case.

In her song Colors (2015), Halsey described Matty Healy as blue:
“Everything is blue
His pills, his hands, his jeans
And now I'm covered in the colors
Pulled apart at the seams
And it's blue
And it's blue.”

TS thought of Matty as blue too. Maybe because she views him as a poet with a tortured heart, deep as an ocean, and he is a “sad boy”?

Whatever the reason, her use of blue to represent him and red for herself was a reference to them all along. For example, in the b&w Fortnight video, the only color she uses in the entire video is blue smoke coming from his typewriter and red coming from hers, interweaving in the air. There is also red and blue juxtaposition in Peace on Folklore.

“It’s blue, the feeling I've got” in Cruel Summer.

It’s possible “never seen that color blue” in Delicate is about him too; that one is a question mark in my mind. Figuratively, it could mean I’ve never felt that way about another man or never met someone before who feels so deeply, like I do. Later in Illicit Affairs she says, “You showed me colors you know I can't see with anyone else”, and I am convinced that song is about Matty.

Of course Illicit Affairs is about Matty. That song is also what tipped me off that there was something going on in Taylor’s life that didn’t necessarily match her wholesome persona. Because she got the feelings in that song exactly right. Don’t ask me how I know.


Also to continue the blue theme, back in 2019 or so Matty was giving an interview in which he was talking about how Taylor Swift should pivot to something acoustic and said something about Taylor needing to come out with her own “Joni Mitchell’s Blue.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I discovered The 1975 after their performance on The Tonight Show in 2022. I was shocked at how good Matty sounded for a smoker in his 30s, singing while chewing gum, dancing and playing the guitar. As my DCs like to say, he’s such a vibe!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJYTYevbI-o

You should see his performance at Madison Square Garden and especially at the Reading Festival 2023 performance, drinking a bottle of wine and sounding BETTER after having a swig of it!

https://youtu.be/qu2QXKDNoWs

This too is awesome: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epjQAHfTXfo
Matty Healy is such a showman.

By the way, their stage set up...someone once said this is the inside of the Lover house on the Eras tour, down to the staircase and different rooms.

When he sings Fallingforyou I imagine his lyrics are describing her house (his set), “All we need’s my bike and your enormous house.” lol. This one is my favorite, though.

https://youtu.be/PwlFzW-tgTs

Taylor's song False God sounds very much like Fallingforyou. She really did steal a lot of his ideas, both lyrically and musically.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I discovered The 1975 after their performance on The Tonight Show in 2022. I was shocked at how good Matty sounded for a smoker in his 30s, singing while chewing gum, dancing and playing the guitar. As my DCs like to say, he’s such a vibe!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJYTYevbI-o

You should see his performance at Madison Square Garden and especially at the Reading Festival 2023 performance, drinking a bottle of wine and sounding BETTER after having a swig of it!

https://youtu.be/qu2QXKDNoWs

This too is awesome: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epjQAHfTXfo
Matty Healy is such a showman.

By the way, their stage set up...someone once said this is the inside of the Lover house on the Eras tour, down to the staircase and different rooms.

When he sings Fallingforyou I imagine his lyrics are describing her house (his set), “All we need’s my bike and your enormous house.” lol. This one is my favorite, though.

https://youtu.be/PwlFzW-tgTs

Taylor's song False God sounds very much like Fallingforyou. She really did steal a lot of his ideas, both lyrically and musically.

or was it her idea first...