Despite the controversy surrounding Healy, there’s no denying his talent, charisma, or star power.
What’s more, his band keeps on finding success.
In 2023, Healy landed in the headlines, but not for a dicey remark or shocking performance.
Rather, he briefly datedpop superstar Taylor Swift.
Let’s get into who Matt Healy is.
Healy’s upbringing was, as he put it toThe Guardianin 2016, “Completely mental.”
According to the singer, his family was both loving and chaotic.
“We love each other so much,” he said.
And we throw things at each other, and my parents drank for years.
Healy’s childhood also set the stage for his passion for music.
“My dad’s mates were in bands,” Healy told The Guardian.
His father also instilled in him a love of gospel.
He transferred to a public school in Wilmslow, near Manchester.
As for his grades, they weren’t exactly stellar.
By the time he graduated, he only had three GCSEs most British students graduate with nine or ten.
“I was just looking at the clock, waiting until I could go and do it.”
Things got worse when Healy began experimenting with heroin.
By 2018, his bandmates, who did not use heroin, felt the need to step in.
At first he didn’t want help, because he didn’t see it as a problem.
However, eventually, he came around to the idea of making a change.
Healy went to rehab where he realized that he was lucky to be there when was.
“I’d not lost anything.
“Hadn’t lost my career.
Hadn’t lost my possessions.
Hadn’t lost my money.
I was just walking a very, very thin line.”
That’s when Healy really understood that he had to stop.
“The junky phase was kind of a phase of mine,” he reflected.
“I do a lot of stuff that I would do in place of drugs that I now do…
I do jiu jitsu, being in the gym.”
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As the singer toldThe Talks, this long wait helped to keep him humble.
They eventually signed with Polydor and, in 2013, they exploded onto the scene.
The criticism rolled in, and he promptly deleted his account.
I’m certainly not going to become a pawn in it,” he said.
These days, he sees himself as “the best writer in music on consumption within the internet.”
After she attended yet another show, Healy revealed that the pair had exchanged numbers.
“What am I going to do, go out with Taylor Swift?
She’s a sensation.
I wouldn’t say no,” he said on “Shazam Top 20” (viaPage Six).
However, when Healy was pressed further, he backtracked.
It’s really sad," he wrote in a Twitter statement.
In a 2016 interview with The Guardian, Healy offered some more details.
Apparently, the pair had spent some time together but decided not to actually date.
“She came to a show and we hung out,” he said.
He became more confident, more self-assured, and more mature than he was in his 20s.
“I think I just grew up a little bit,” he said to The Talks.
And his growing maturity is reflected in his music, too.
“We have seven instruments and we’re a f***ing rock band.”
As the singer explained to Rolling Stone in 2022, he’s something of an obsessive collector.
Healy doesn’t collect just anything.
In another 2022 interview withPitchfork, Healy actually added to his collection while speaking to the interviewer.
The pair chatted while browsing London’s Peter Harrington bookshop, which is filled with unique first editions.
Apparently, he settled on a poetry anthology from 1967 worth 275.
“I don’t really do anything with them,” he said of his collectibles.
“I just have them at home and look at them.”
Matt Healy is famously outspoken and one of the topics he isn’t afraid to get into is religion.
On some occasions, Healy has raised eyebrows because of his strong opinions on religion.
I never get a day where I get to be offended.
Where are my rights as an atheist?"
He also made some remarks about Islam that, to many viewers, felt rooted in Islamophobia.
He has an unconventional performance style
Up on stage, Matt Healy is anything but boring.
In fact, he’s known to be one of the most unconventional performers out there.
A quick glimpse at footage from one of his tours will give you an idea of what we mean.
Otherclipsshow him eating raw meat on stage.
Healy has also been known to kiss fans during his performances.
In anotherclip, Healy can be seen doing what seems to be a Nazi salute.
While many fans see his performing style as artistic, others aren’t so keen.
“Creepy behavior or pop performance?”
queried one think piece inThe Guardian.
OneTwitterthread that pulled together all of his most controversial on stage behavior went viral.
Whether you love him or hate him, it seems Healy will always elicit a strong opinion.
A source toldThe Sun, “She and Matty are madly in love.
It’s super-early days, but it feels right.
They first dated, very briefly, almost ten years ago but timings just didn’t work out.”
Another source revealed toET, “Taylor and Matty like each other.
Taylor has a crush on Matty and they are having a good time hanging out.
Matty also thinks Taylor is awesome and incredibly talented, too.
They dated briefly in the past.”
But the two wouldn’t date for long.
An insider toldPeoplethat their relationship had never been that serious.
