Fans expected Taylor Swift’s new album The Tortured Poets Department to make reference to her breakup with Joe Alwyn and her new relationship with Travis Kelce, but they weren’t prepared for the album to include several songs ostensibly dedicated to Matty Healy, the frontman of 1975.
After splitting from Alwyn in May 2023, Swift briefly dated Healy, much to the dismay of her fan base. Although their relationship was brief, it seems to have had enough of an impact for the pop artist to write many songs about their summertime romance. Additionally, the musician wasn’t shocked by the mentions, according to Healy’s aunt Debbie Dedes.
“It surprises him no more,” Dedes said in a Saturday interview with The Daily Mail. “The music will not surprise him. He and she are aware of the events.”
“[Taylor] writes about all her relationships, doesn’t she?” the woman went on to say. It won’t surprise him in the slightest, I believe,” she continued. “He’s happy in his new relationship, so I’m sure he will be focusing on that.” Healy is presently seeing Gabbriette Bechtel, a model.
“As my nephew, we know a bit more about what went on than has been in the press,” Dedes continued, dropping hints that there’s more to the incident than Swift sings about on the record.
Swift seems to be referring to Healy in TTDP when she sings in the song “The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived” about a man wearing a “Jehovah’s Witness suit” who “tried to buy some pills from a friend of friends of mine” (Healy notably wears a black suit onstage and has previously discussed his past heroin addiction). The songs “I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can)” and “But Daddy I Love Him” also address criticism of her connection with him.
