Taylor Swift’s love life has lengthy been within the highlight, however stories this month that she’s relationship the 1975’s Matty Healy is very elevating some eyebrows, as is her shock announcement that she’ll collaborate with rapper Ice Spice on the deluxe model of her Midnights album.
The 2 tales are associated. Here is a breakdown:
Is Swift truly relationship Healy?
Whereas it is unclear if Swift, whose breakup with longtime love Joe Alwyn grew to become public final month, has coupled up with Healy, the 2 are no less than spending time collectively. They have been seen collectively a number of occasions this month, as soon as the place they had been reportedly kissing, and different occasions at her “The Eras Tour” stops, the place he is even carried out. Yahoo Leisure has reached out to Swift’s rep for remark.
Why are Swifties divided over Healy?
Their important situation is Healy’s look on The Adam Friedland Present again in January, throughout which Healy and the 2 hosts, Friedland and Nick Mullen, laughed whereas speculating concerning the ethnicity of Ice Spice, who’s truly each Nigerian and Dominican. Per the Los Angeles Occasions, Friedland and Mullen referred to Ice Spice — who’s been no less than pleasant with Swift for years — each as an “Inuit spice lady” and a “chubby Chinese language woman.” The co-hosts additionally mocked Chinese language and Hawaiian accents, a bit that Healy appeared to take pleasure in. The problematic podcast episode was later pulled from each Apple and Spotify. That wasn’t the one controversy Healy stirred up throughout the interview. He additionally joked about masturbating to a video of a girl “getting, like, brutalized” on Ghetto Gaggers, a porn web site that largely options Black ladies.
Months later, Healy considerably apologized, admitting onstage throughout a efficiency he “can take it too far generally in entrance of too many individuals.” The singer added in April: “I do not need Ice Spice to suppose I am a d***. I really like you, Ice Spice. I am so sorry.”
So no matter Swift and Healy’s precise relationship is, some followers are upset and tweeting with the hashtag #SpeakUpNow, selling a letter circulating the web that requires Swift to handle the scenario.
Information of an upcoming collab with Ice Spice did not assist, and it prompted feedback that it was a PR transfer.
What has Ice Spice mentioned about all this?
Up to now, the artist seems to be excited concerning the remix of Swift’s music “Karma.” On the eve of its Might 26 launch, Ice Spice posted to Instagram, “thxx @taylorswift for being the best particular person on earth ilu.”
It is to be decided how this may all play out, so test again for updates.