The 1975’s Matty Healy says his controversial podcast appearance ‘doesn’t actually matter.’
The 1975 frontman Matty Healyis responding to criticism after months of backlash.
They debated whether she was Hawaiian, Inuit or Chinese before impersonating those accents.
The 1975 frontman Matty Healy; Ice Spice.Karwai Tang/WireImage; Lester Cohen/Getty
The podcast episode earned significant backlash and has since been removed from Apple and Spotify.
Asked if he had baited his fans on purpose, Healy toldThe New Yorker, “A little bit.
But it doesn’t actually matter.”
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and they go, ‘It’s just this thing with Matty Healy.’
That doesn’t happen."
Healy received some pushback from writer Jia Tolentino, who suggested “maybe [that] does happen.”
“You’re either lying that you are hurt, or you’re a bit mental for being hurt.
And I kind of want them to do that, because they’re demonstrating something so base level.”
“Sorry if I’ve offended you,” Healy added.
“Ice Spice, I’m sorry.
I love you Ice Spice….
Prior to the podcast recording, Healy insisted that he has no interest in being “publicly correct.”
“I’ve done my decade of trying to be that,” Healy said.
