Taylor Swift’s ex Matty Healy threatens to ‘slap’ Azealia Banks in heated exchange

Matty Healy and Azealia Banks kept the tension high on X with another fiery back-and-forth on Tuesday, proving they’ve truly mastered the art of unhinged social media warfare.

The drama unfolded when Banks criticized Charli XCX, saying, “Charli used to be sooo beautiful. Um.”

Healy, whose bandmate George Daniel is engaged to Charli, responded scathingly: “All the women you attack seem to be culturally relevant, attractive, divisive and kind people. I think this makes you jealous because you are so talented, but everything else about you is a failure. Hurry up, bro.’

After Banks compared Healy to Frankenstein, things quickly escalated.

Taylor Swift’s ex initially bragged about wanting to “hit” Banks, making a hugely dramatic threat: “I’ll hit you so hard I’ll get a Guinness world record for the tallest rat some call a bitch a wig ever flew .’

Recognizing the inappropriate nature of his outburst, Healy quickly backtracked and apologized: “No, I can’t say I’m going to hit a crazy girl. I’m sorry. You just can’t stay so mean to my friends and Mrs. It’s really hurtful, which puts me on the defensive.”

He then deleted the threatening tweet, acknowledging that it was “not cool even when I was angry.”

This latest clash follows their previous confrontation when Healy initially responded to Banks’ criticism of Charli XCX’s SNL performance earlier this month.

When Banks accused Charli of making a “lazy” interpretation of Ciara’s 1, 2 Step, Healy shot back, “Shut up, motherfucker.” Being more annoying than me is actually impressive.”

Fans will no doubt remember Azealia’s fiery tirade against Swift’s ex-boyfriend in May 2023.

This was around the same time that Swift and Healy were romantically involved, shortly after Swift’s divorce from Joe Alwyn.

Taylor and Matty were seen holding hands and kissing in New York City.

Despite their initial chemistry and public outings, their relationship was short-lived, lasting only about a month before breaking up in June 2023.

Azeala’s attack on Healy appeared to be inspired by Healy’s apparently racist comments he made about the rapper Ice Spice during a performance on The Adam Friedland Podcast.

Banks shared a photo of Healy on stage with his arms outstretched and a headline that referenced his on-stage apology for his comments about Ice Spice as she berated him in her lines.

“Does Matt Healy know that no one really thinks the 1975 makes good music,” she wrote, despite the band’s last four albums being in the top 10 of the Billboard 200 album charts, “and that he’s a lame poser with a trash cliché band? name that doesn’t really mean anything and he’s clearly been pressured into making a black girl who doesn’t know anything about him or his music make more moves and money than him,” she wrote, seemingly referencing Ice Spice, 23.

She further boasted that “black women are more desirable these days because there is BIG BUSINESS in female rap.” [sic].’

“He’s so obviously weak in the knees, thin-jawed and addicted to drugs that it’s easy to spot his crusty flaw,” she added.

She suggested Healy did the “small, white, quirky male musician thing,” but claimed only musician Ariel Pink – who attended a pro-Trump rally in Washington DC before the January 6 insurrection – could get away with it.

She also claimed that The 1975 is a derivative of 2000s band The Academy Is… and Death From Above 1979.

However, she said that the Healy band would “never” achieve that band’s artistic success because he is “not a star” nor is he “good at any crappy mid-2000s indie pitchfork fantasy.” you are also trying to sell.’

She concluded the post by praising Ice Spice for having “MILES more originality than ever before.”

“The 1975 is not on anyone’s radar,” she added scathingly, before claiming that only “fat emo teenagers” would listen to Healy’s music.

In a second text message, she simply wrote: “Matt Healy is one shared needle away from tetanus.”

Banks then posted a blank screen to her Insta Stories with an audio post calling herself a “really big music connoisseur.”

She talked about the first time she heard The 1975 and thought the band’s name was ‘cliché’ and ‘corny’, and she assumed the music would be ‘manufactured bulls***’, which suited her feelings about various ‘boy bands’ in the late ’70s. 2000s and 2010s.

She concluded by saying that her lack of knowledge of the band’s music indicated that it was not good and unpopular.

Banks made a series of insults about Healy and his appearance, and she urged him to eat some vegetables and wash his hair, eventually calling him a “fake-a** Pete Doherty.”

The same audio post also contained a text post unrelated to her story.

The 212 rapper referred to Taylor Swift and her underworld in offensive sexual terms, while calling Healy a “full incel” and writing that he was not worthy of her.

She then suggested that Swift instead date James Mercer, the leader and songwriter of the popular indie rock band The Shins, who appears to have only been recorded by Banks, is a fan of his music and because The Shins and The 1975 are both in broadly speaking, they are an indie rock band. rock bands.

Banks’ comments echo those of many Swift fans, who have echoed offensive statements Healy has made in recent years.

Although he received backlash at the time, Healy’s comments on the Adam Friedland Show gained new attention in February after he started dating Swift and showed up at her Era Tour concerts.

During his performance, Healy claimed he tried to message rapper Ice Spice on Instagram.

Along with Friedland and his co-host, comedian Nick Mullen, Healy appeared to confuse her heritage by calling her Inuit and Chinese, imitating and mocking the stereotypical accents of each ethnicity.

The podcast episode was later pulled from both Spotify and Apple Music due to its offensive content.