‘I got stuff wrong’: Matty Healy admits he would ‘take back’ his controversial comments after he was slammed over racism and graphic porn remarks
Matty Healy has admitted he would ‘take back’ some of his past comments.
The 1975 frontman has sparked controversy in recent months after questionable remarks resurfaced in the wake of him dating Taylor Swift.
Appearing on stage with his band at Finsbury Park, the singer, 34, did not clarify what exactly he was referring to, but did confess he had got ‘some stuff wrong’.
He explained: ‘I was always trying stuff and some stuff I got right and some stuff I got wrong.
‘But you know what, there’s a lot of things that I’ve said, jokes that I’ve made, that I would take back.’
‘I got stuff wrong’: Matty Healy has admitted he would ‘take back’ some of his past comments after backlash over racism controversy and graphic porn desires (pictured last month)
Matty continued: ‘You know what, there’s probably a couple of f***ing songs that I’d take back if I had the choice.
‘What I mean is that I really am only doing this because I want to make you guys laugh and feel good. That’s what my favourite art does and that’s what I’m trying to do.
‘I get a bit excited. And, you know what, I’m f***ing proud of myself.’
The singer has faced backlash over the past few months, for moments such as calling Harry Styles a ‘queerbaiter’.
His appearance on The Adam Fiedland Show also caused controversy when he discussed his penchant for graphic porn and laughed about derogatory comments made towards Ice Spice.
During the chat he discussed a time he masturbated to porn of ‘brutalised’ women, with Friedland and his co-host Nick Mullen recalling the time they witnessed him watching ‘hardcore pornography’ ’30 seconds’ after they left a party at his house.
The trio said Matty, 34, was watching Ghetto Gaggers, a porn site known for videos featuring the humiliation and brutalisation of mostly Black women.
Friedland explained how he and a female friend went back into Healy’s house after leaving the party when she realised she had forgotten her water bottle.
Matty laughed as he told the podcast hosts: ‘It wasn’t just the… it was the combination of the fact that it was, you’re not exaggerating, it was 30 seconds. Like, you guys were still waiting outside, she came back in, I was already flustered.’
‘I was, like, dressed as “guy who is jacking off,” so I had, like, an untucked shirt. Like you said, I think it literally was, like, Ghetto Gaggers was on the TV. It’s just somebody just getting, like, brutalised,’ he continued.
Struggles: The singer, 34, did not clarify what exactly he was referring to, but did confess he had got ‘some stuff wrong’
Under fire: A podcast apeparance caused controversy when he discussed his penchant for graphic porn and laughed about derogatory comments made towards Ice Spice (pictured)
Taking aim: Last month, singer Rina Sawayama called Matty out for alleged ‘microaggressions’ during her Glastonbury set
In the same podcast episode Healy was accused of racism for comments made about the rapper Ice Spice.
Claiming he tried to message the rapper on Instagram, Healy along with Friedland and Mullen then appeared to confuse her heritage by referring to her as Inuit and Chinese, imitating and mocking the accents of each.
The podcast episode was later pulled from both Spotify and Apple Music because of its offensive content.
In April, Matty apologised on stage to Ice Spice and insisted he ‘never meant to hurt anybody’.
Noting that he is ‘genuinely sorry’, he said during a New Zealand concert: ‘Sorry if I’ve offended you. Ice Spice, I’m sorry. It’s not because I’m annoyed that me joking got misconstrued, it’s ’cause I don’t want Ice Spice to think that I’m a d***.
‘I love you Ice Spice…. It’s OK for me to be like, a trickster or whatever, but I don’t want to be perceived as mean-hearted…
‘We all get it wrong, and I just have to do it in public and then apologise.’
Last month, singer Rina Sawayama called Matty out for alleged ‘microaggressions’ during her Glastonbury set.
While Japanese and British star Rina didn’t name Matty directly in her words on stage, she made a clear reference to him as she introduced her track STFU.
She said: ‘I wrote this because I was sick & tired of these micro-aggressions. This goes out to a white man that watches Ghetto Gaggers and mocks Asian people on a podcast.’
She added: ‘He also owns my masters! I’ve had enough!’
Sawayama is signed to Dirty Hit, a record label that also releases the 1975’s music.
Matty has earned himself a new legion of fans, and critics, after dating longtime friend Taylor Swift.
The pair shocked the world when their romance was revealed in May, amid speculation they had already been dating for weeks- but a friend close to the star confirmed Taylor was ‘single’ again shortly afterwards.
And while fans have been guessing the reason for their break-up, it has since been claimed that it was not due to Matty’s shock podcast comments.
Former flame: Matty has earned himself a new legion of fans, and critics, after dating longtime friend Taylor Swift
A a source close to The 1975 insisted to TMZ that this was not the case, noting that Taylor – who released a remix of Karma with the rapper in May – was ‘aware’ of his comments about Ice Spice before she began dating him.
While the Bad Blood hitmaker’s loyal followers applied pressure at the time, the pal said that Matty and Taylor were ‘used to the noise, and simply blocked it out.’
TMZ went on to suggest that while the podcast wasn’t the root cause of their split, the break-up was more to do with the fact that the former couple simply ‘don’t have time for each other’.
With Taylor touring the world with her sold-out Eras tour and Matty’s band currently in the middle of its European tour, the publication states that the pair ‘still care for each other’, even though ‘things didn’t work out’ in a romantic sense.
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