Key Insights
- Matty Healy expressed disinterest in using personal fame for songwriting.
- He discussed his views on authenticity during an October 2024 podcast episode.
- Joe Alwyn confirmed the mutual decision to keep their relationship private.
- Taylor Swift has consistently drawn inspiration from her personal experiences for her music.
As for Matty, six months after the album was released, The 1975 singer subtly shaded Taylor’s project, noting that he “wasn’t interested” in drawing on his own famous lore to write his songs.
“I would kind of just be lying if I made a record about, I don’t know, all the stuff that was said about me or my casual romantic liaisons,” he explained on an October 2024 episode of The Doomscroll podcast, “or whatever it may be that I’ve kind of become known for, just because I was famous.”
Joe, meanwhile, has more directly shut down speculation on his and Taylor’s breakup.
“As everyone knows, we together—both of us, mutually—decided to keep the more private details of our relationship private,” he told The Sunday Times in 2024. “It was never something to commodify and I see no reason to change that now.”
He emphasized, “There is always going to be a gap between what is known and what is said. I have made my peace with that.”
Nevertheless, Taylor has long turned her inner world into songwriting fuel. Keep reading to see every song Taylor has written about her personal life…
