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 particularly 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 two tales are associated. Here’s a breakdown:
Is Swift truly relationship Healy?
While it is unclear if Swift, whose breakup with longtime love Joe Alwyn turned public final month, has coupled up with Healy, the 2 are at the least spending time collectively. They’ve 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 Entertainment has reached out to Swift’s rep for remark.
Why are Swifties divided over Healy?
Their foremost subject is Healy’s look on The Adam Friedland Show 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 Times, Friedland and Mullen referred to Ice Spice — who’s been at the least pleasant with Swift for years — each as an “Inuit spice girl” and a “chubby Chinese lady.” The co-hosts additionally mocked Chinese 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 in the course of the interview. He additionally joked about masturbating to a video of a lady “getting, like, brutalized” on Ghetto Gaggers, a porn web site that largely options Black girls.
Months later, Healy considerably apologized, admitting onstage throughout a efficiency he “can take it too far sometimes in front of too many people.” The singer added in April: “I don’t want Ice Spice to think I’m a d***. I love you, Ice Spice. I’m 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 state of affairs.
News of an upcoming collab with Ice Spice did not assist, and it prompted feedback that it was a PR transfer.
What has Ice Spice stated about all this?
So far, the artist seems to be excited concerning the remix of Swift’s tune “Karma.” On the eve of its May 26 launch, Ice Spice posted to Instagram, “thxx @taylorswift for being the coolest person on earth ilu.”
It’s to be decided how it will all play out, so examine again for updates.
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