Matty Healy's Remarks on Moving On from a Significant Relationship Reappear Following Taylor Swift's Latest Album

Matty Healy's relationship with Taylor Swift has been resurfaced following the release of Swift's 11th album, The Tortured Poets Department. A clip of Healy addressing the audience during The 1975's October 2023 concert in St. Louis has resurfaced, introducing the band's 2016 hit "Somebody Else." Healy is seen introducing the song and urging the audience to get over their special love. The concert took place four months after Healy's split from Swift.

Healy and Swift were first linked in 2014 and reconnect nearly a decade later after her split from Joe Alwyn in spring 2023. When Swift announced TTPD in February, fans assumed the new songs would detail the end of her six-year romance with Alwyn. However, fans were shocked to find more lyrics about Healy throughout the album's 31 songs.

Frequent listeners of both Swift and The 1975 found some lyrical parallels on the record, with the song "Imgonnagetyouback" stylized in a similar way to The 1975's "Fallingforyou" from their 2013 debut album. Swift's song debates smashing up an ex's bike or taking them "back to my house," both of which are mentioned on The 1975's ballad.

Healy was given a heads-up that their story would be shed in a negative light before the album's debut. He felt "really appreciative" and still thinks very highly of Swift despite their breakup.