Matty crying while the crowd sings Robbers at Pryzm 2018. Apparently this was his first show after he'd gotten clean? He looks so healthy and grateful to be there.
Sometimes I think of the fact that there are literal r*pists, domestic ab*sers and p*dos in the music industry, and people treated a guy who laughed at some edgy jokes on a comedy podcast as the second coming of the antichrist by ruthlessly mocking his addiction and appearance.
Umm why are people doing the "worst person you know made a great point" meme under this? Tell me you've never actually watched his long-form interviews & get your information from buzzfeed and twitter threads.
Three things in life are certain: death, taxes and Matty Healy profiles where the interviewer tries to capture his overactive, ADHD brain and ends up coming to the same conclusion as those before them.
Swiftologist on Gold Rush.
You got to hand it to him, he's able to put aside his personal dislike of Matty (for different reasons, he doesn't buy into all that misinfo) and analyze her music objectively.
@Rosetheswift
This was in Brazil. Charli is in London. Do you want her to telepathically control people in another continent? Yeah it was shitty, but stop dragging Charli for something she had nothing to do with.
Yeah no shit she looks different in photos with completely different facial expressions and lighting. Absolute psychopaths in the replies. Too many people think adding "white" before woman allows them to say the most hateful shit.
@ityhatesithere
@Rosetheswift
What on earth is "her management in Brazil"? It wasn't even an official one listed on her website. It was a bunch of gay men in a club.
The way people double down when corrected and grasp at straws to stubbornly confirm their bias and performatively signal their virtue is a terrifying sign for modern discourse.
@mazzypornstar
@joenickys
No I actually don’t listen to a podcast where Matty Healy and his mates “joke” about watching a website that sexually brutalizes black women. What I do know is what he said wasn’t funny nor did it have a punchline thereby nobody took it as a joke.
PopBase had an agenda using that fuckass picture of Matthew from the beginning. The amount of damage a couple of pictures did on Swifties' psyche is significant.
“But you can be upset about more than one thing”. Sure, but I don’t see that energy directed at anyone else. Y’all are either 1) swifties mad he’s been immortalized in her music 2) Taylor haters who just found something else to bash her for. You people don’t believe in anything.
No bb, she capitalized on the Matty backlash due to a business beef with the label. She falsely claimed he owned her masters when he only has a 4% stake. WOC can also be self-serving, using social justice for personal gain & abandoning those principles when it doesn't serve them.
Love Charli, but swifties spreading misinfo that Charli was at a random listening party in Brazil & condoned this was ridiculous. I'll defend Taylor, but never the Swifties since Taylor would be apologizing 24/7 if she had to address some of the shit her rabid fans pull every day
📲| Charli XCX calls out fans who chant "Taylor is dead!" at her shows and in clubs
“It's the opposite of what I want and it disturbs me that anyone would think there is room for this in this community. I will not tolerate it.”
Good time to mention that last year Rina was following a pattern observed countless times in the last decade, trying to turn a personal/professional grievance into a social justice issue.
Fans making everything a morality competition are too simple to notice it's just careerism.
I think stans in general need to stop being so obsessed with artists' morality by turning everything into a morality competition. It never ends well. Of course there's actual illegal shit, but the word "problematic" as become a scourge.
The way that’s not even true. But if it helps you sleep at night and you want to believe your fav is winning some morality competition then knock yourself out.
Matty healy fans all of the sudden thinking they have the moral high ground against rina as if he literally doesn’t watch torture porn of black women 💀 rina should not have taken the collab but one is worse then the other and it is the one who looks like a sewer rat
God what a boring experience listening to TTPD must be for these fans. Can you imagine listening to Chloe or Sam, or Peter and going "well she was crazy when she wrote it so it really doesn't mean anything"
So stop taking some of the shit to Heart and using it to drag her she literally said I went fucking crazy and was attempting social svicide she is only a human being you don't need to hit her face with her mistakes every single day on this app or use her words against her
The world if Matty had never decided to do the "crisis in masculinity" thing and the "rockstar persona blurring the boundary between art and real-life" thing
Lol love how they're spinning it as Rina "accidentally" collabing with Paris because she forgot to google her. Not like there aren't actual teams, assistants, managers, publicists behind the scenes doing their due diligence. She just doesn't care. It was all public posturing.
@Cassandraah1989
It's 1 year later and nobody knows that 99% of the things Matty is supposed to have said was said by the hosts...on a comedy podcast. But yes, how nice people are discovering context and learning to check primary sources
@siciiily
Yup yup. I think the common theme of these 2 songs is feeling stuck and bored in your current relationship and meeting someone who makes you feel alive again. The twin emotional cheating songs.
@balladofmaroon
It's 1 year later & the lack of media literacy, journalists being sloppy to get some clicks & people just swallowing twitter threads made by Gaylors is still so disappointing. Swifties immediately decided he wasn't good enough for Taylor & looked for "proof" to confirm their bias
@blondpufferfish
They forget that she calls it a "mutual manic phase" in the epilogue, acknowledging that he was also caught up in it, not just her. Kind of feels like reality came crashing down on him first when he realized what dating Taylor Swift in 2023 entails.
You idiots just added a community note to another tabloid article that said something you didn't like. But it must be true if the tabloids say something you agree with.
People confidently claiming Taylor would NEVER do this or that if she didn’t think the guy was end game have clearly never lived through her messiness. I stan but she’s stupid in love. She’ll do the most insane things and move on like nothing happened.
@ityhatesithere
@Rosetheswift
Clearly you couldn't find it. Either way, there are hundreds of listening parties being held at record stores & clubs across the world. Bizarre to think there's someone at Charli's team at every event. You can criticize the fans without dragging her into it
@tsleeplessnight
If anyone actually listened to the podcast, they would have realized it was a stupid anecdote exaggerated for comedic effect by the host. The humor may not be everyone's cup of tea, but people really think he went on a podcast and made a serious announcement or something.
@afroallura
I also lol'd at "who is an annoying contrarian who says dumb stuff for attention and gets in trouble all the time?" As a Matty fan, yeah sometimes it do be like that.
Once again…I can’t help but feel a phenomenal sense of pride.
None of the other bums Taylor has been with would ever be this prepared and poised in front of 90,000 people while wearing that costume..
A football man proving to the world that chivalry is not dead.. and you’re
Damn she really swung to the opposite end of the pendulum after Joe. Her choice of course, but very jarring, noticeable shift in her approach to her relationships & the philosophy she'd espoused the last few years.
@siciiily
He's very sharp! I don't always agree with him (He concludes this was all a game to Matty. But he's a casual 75 fan, so he's not deep in the Matty lore) but he's good at analyzing Taylor's lyricism without his personal dislike of the muses clouding his judgment.
@siciiily
I thought High Infidelity was a Calvin/Joe song. With her meeting Joe at Gigi's bday party on April 28th and drinking and flirting into the night at a bar on Sunset and Vine (so April 29th).
This is cute, but if she needed to just get something out of her system she'd write it, record it and never release it. fr she didn't plan a 30 minute tour set for 9 months for something she didn't care about. She's just at a stage in her career where she barely needs to do promo
i genuinely think ttpd era is already over, because it wasn’t an era to begin with. she needed to get those songs out of her system & i don’t think she ever planned presenting ttpd as an era yk. kinda evermore 2.0
y'all threatened his daughter with r4pe and murd3r and expected him not to throw shade?! like be so for real rn. he could have ended y'all right there and then but instead he chose to crack a harmless joke. let that sink in
@tsleeplessnight
He should have foreseen how social media and virality works, how everything is stripped of its context on the internet and finally, just how purposefully obtuse people are at missing the point when they get to demonstrate their virtue on the internet and get those likes/retweets.
@robbersinneon
People genuinely believe that his stage persona is how he is IRL 😭. He really didn't think through how his "rockstar in crisis" ATVB persona would be perceived by the general public.
I just reread the People article that came out like 5 minutes after TTPD dropped and saw it was updated later that day confirming The Black Dog, Chloe or Sam, Peter and the biggest surprise of all, How did it end? are all about Matty? Tree was not taking any chances.
"But how can she write a song like The Black Dog with so much emotional depth/complexity about a fling?"
Because you're all stupid and take that satirical epilogue where she's pleading insanity for her "crime" of being with him literally.
@tsleeplessnight
The strange part to me is people making this whole thing a feminist issue or a women supporting women issue. Do they really think Taylor would have rolled over for Drake or The Weeknd?
Post-TTPD Maroon appearances
1. May 11 in Paris — “Hey Stephen” and “Maroon”
2. June 21 in London — "The Black Dog", "Come Back...Be Here" and "Maroon".