Taylor Swift, Matty Healy, Charlie Puth. Getty Illustrations or photos (3)
Taylor Swift name-dropped Charlie Puth on her new album, The Tortured Poets Department, and supporters immediately discovered a way to link the lyric to her ex Matty Healy.
Swift’s 11th album arrived on Friday, April 19, and even though it was suspected the tracks would concentration on her break up from Joe Alwyn after 6 several years jointly, a lot of listeners as a substitute picked up on clues pointing to Healy, 35.
“You smoked then ate seven bars of chocolate / We declared Charlie Puth need to be a even bigger artist,” Swift, 34, sings on the album’s title keep track of. “I scratch your head, you drop asleep / Like a tattooed golden retriever.”
Not only is “Chocolate” the name of Healy’s band The 1975’s breakout strike, but he also gave a shout-out to Puth, 32, years just before TTPD was introduced.
“That Charlie Puth and Boyz II Adult males track is harrrrrd,” Healy tweeted in May possibly 2018, according to a resurfaced screenshot. (He was seemingly referring to “If You Depart Me Now” from Puth’s 2nd album, Voicenotes.)
Puth retweeted the information at the time, composing, “Thank u matty!”
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— The 1975 TH (@the1975_thteam) April 18, 2024
Swift and Healy at first sparked romance rumors in 2014 immediately after they were being spotted putting on each other’s merch. The 1975 was just setting up to acquire recognition at the time, and Healy later claimed in an job interview with Q Magazine that it was “emasculating” to be connected to a person much more famous than him.
Next a wave of backlash, Healy attempted to explain his comments. “Now I could confess to currently being an fool on celebration, but I am not a misogynist,” he said in a 2016 statement.
He continued: “I was for a extremely limited time immersed in a celeb world that I identified complicated and frightening. At that time, I experienced fears of getting ‘somebody’s boyfriend’ (don’t forget this is all speculation as we never ever dated!) ahead of even getting recognized for my audio or existence as a human being in my very own suitable.”
The twosome reconnected pursuing Swift’s 2023 break up from Alwyn, 33, with a source completely telling Us, “They’re seeking to give points a 2nd likelihood.”
Swift and Healy have been spotted jointly on many events — he even took the stage at one of her Eras Tour live shows along with her opening act Phoebe Bridgers — ahead of calling it quits in June 2023.
“They experienced pleasurable alongside one another, but it was by no means severe,” a resource informed Us at the time.
The fling may possibly have been more severe to Swift than followers anticipated, with Healy — and his lots of controversies — seemingly serving as the inspiration for considerably of TTPD.
“They shake their heads stating, ‘God enable her’ when I explain to ’em he’s my man / But your excellent Lord does not require to lift a finger / I can resolve him, no seriously I can / And only I can,” she sings on “I Can Correct Him (No Genuinely I Can).”
