Singer Rina Sawayama Calls Out Matty Healy at Glastonbury Show

Matty Healy was referred to as out in a giant manner this weekend … getting dragged throughout the coals by none apart from certainly one of his fellow labelmates, who put him on blast at Glastonbury.

Singer Rina Sawayama did not point out Matty by identify Saturday throughout her set, however there’s merely no query who she was referring to as she was main as much as her tune, ‘STFU.’

Before stepping into on the primary verse, she stated … “I wrote this because I was sick & tired of these micro-aggressions. This goes out to a white man that watches Ghetto Gaggers & mocks Asian people on a podcast. He also owns my masters! I’ve had enough!”

The crowd began dropping it … and Rina then launched right into a passionate efficiency.

Of course, folks on Twitter have been much more turned up … not solely is she trending proper now, however Matty is as nicely — and individuals are giving her kudos for calling out what many have labeled problematic conduct of his for whereas, particularly because it pertains to race.

The reference to “ghetto gaggers” comes from a podcast Matty appeared on earlier this 12 months — the place he cracked jokes about watching the porn website .. which many thought of insensitive.

Not simply that … however he was additionally yukking it up with the podcast hosts as they mocked Asian accents, all whereas disparaging Ice Spice. Matty was laughing alongside to the entire thing — and he is been getting referred to as out for that as nicely … particularly amid his romance with Taylor Swift.

Many of Taylor’s followers did not approve of her relationship with him … and have been calling on her to dump the dude. Big image, the sensation was that he wasn’t good for her squeaky clear model.

As we reported … the 2 of them broke up final month after a few month and alter of seeing one another. We’d additionally heard the podcast controversy did not play an element within the break up.

TS remains to be touring and getting on with issues, and ditto for Matty — who’s been performing along with his band, The 1975. All the backlash he’d been going through up till that time had largely fizzled out — that’s, till Rina right here introduced it again up once more … in passionate phrases, no much less.

As for her declare about him proudly owning her masters — it is unclear what she’s getting at. Yes, The 1975 was additionally signed to her label, Dirty Hit, however there is no indication, publicly at least, that Matty’s a label head there. Perhaps Rina’s conscious of one thing the remainder of us aren’t.