The 1975’s Matt Healy on fame
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Brit band … George Daniel, Matthew Healy, Ross McDonald and Adam Hann from The 1975. Picture: Mark Stewart
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TAYLOR Swift’s rumoured boyfriend, British singer Matt Healy, says he is struggling to balance his private life with the perils of fame and romance.
Healy, who performed with his band The 1975 at Festival Hall last night, told Confidential: “Your romantic life changes, the dynamic of friends … but it’s better than what it used to be”.
Questions about Swift were banned but the singer offered: “I still have relationships with people and the relationships I do have with people that are nearest to me have kind of solidified”.
Are they or aren’t they? … Matt Healy from The 1975. Picture: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images
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The Swift-Healy romance story blossomed in October when the pair exchanged phone numbers, and have been seen at each other’s concerts. Healy has worn a Swift 1989 T-shirt on stage and she has been snapped wearing a The 1975 one (as has Swift’s BFF, Selena Gomez).
THE 1975’s MATT HEALY ON WRITING WITH ONE DIRECTION
“Let’s see what happens,” Healy told a radio station about Swift at the time.
“She’s a sensation.”
Yep, she’s a ‘sensation’ … Taylor Swift. Picture: AFP
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Meanwhile, The 1975, widely described by critics as an indie-pop One Direction, have met with boyband-level hysteria while in Melbourne.
“We haven’t been able to leave (the hotel),” Healy, 25, said. “You can’t stop to do 100 photos every time you go down the stairs. We’re amazingly appreciative of it.”
Healy said that was “very new” for his band.
“We’re not from that world of pop … that kind of pop audience, we’ve never really had it before.
“We’ve always had loads of girls at our shows, screaming girls, that’s always been the thing.
“Now there’s these very overexcited … very, very young fans and I don’t know where they’re relating to it but they are.
“So that’s a new thing — the shared audience with huge, big pop acts.”
British band The 1975. Picture: Mark Stewart
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The brooding British singer joked that he had posed for an “immeasurable” amount of selfies while in Melbourne.
“It’s almost like now a rite of passage.”
Not your average boy band … Matthew Healy from The 1975 at Splendour in the Grass last year. Picture: Jono Searle.
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The Girls band are writing the follow-up to their self-titled album while touring.
“It’ll be done when it’s done. We were going to start properly recording it … by like June, so we’ll hopefully have finished it by the end of the year.”
Lyrically, Healy said the new songs were written with his trademark honesty.
“I like to think that the only reason people connect with our lyrics is the honesty that I have. I’ve tried to stay really, really true to that,” he said.
Time will tell if his new songs are about Swift.
Originally published as The 1975’s Matt Healy on fame
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