Apr 19, 2024 - 03:23
By perezhilton.com

Inside Taylor Swift's LONG History With Matty Healy!

OK, so we’re hearing some more casual Taylor Swift fans are taken aback by just how much she has to say about Matty Healy!

After all, shouldn’t her new album, The Tortured Poets Department, be all about Joe Alwyn, her boyfriend of six years?? What’s with all the emotion surrounding her rebound guy she was with for like a month and change?

Related: All The Lyrics Taylor Revealed At That Tortured Poets Department Pop-Up!

Well, she actually has a longer history with the frontman from The 1975, going all the way back to 1975… Sorry, no, we just got swept up. But it does reach back to 2014 — before she and Joe even met! So rewind with us and get a better understanding before diving into TTPD…

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1 2014
2 2015
3 2016
4 2019
5 2022
6 January 2023
7 April 2023
8 May 2023
9 June 2023
10 August 2023

2014

Taylor first met Matty as a fan! She attended one of his concerts in El Lay in November 2014, along with her pals Selena Gomez and Ellie Goulding. She got to go backstage afterward because… well, she’s Taylor Swift!

This was still in the era when folks were perpetually wondering if she was getting back together with Harry Styles. But she apparently had her eyes on a different Brit singer! Right away she and Matty hit it off — he later revealed they exchanged numbers! Speaking on an Aussie radio show, he says candidly:

Fair enough!

Soon after Tay is spotted sporting a The 1975 tee, and whispers are already starting. By December the rumors are flying these two are secretly dating! She attends another of Matty’s concerts, and an Us Weekly source spills they’re giving it a try:

The insider says it was Matty who did the pursuing, frequently texting the Style singer.

2015

In January, Matty puts an end to the headlines by definitively denying they’d been dating for two months — or at all! He told Shazam Top 20:

And everyone believed him. Why wouldn’t they? He sounded pretty convincingly rejected!

Then in February the pair are photographed together again, albeit in a big group, at a Brit Awards party. But any continued speculation doesn’t last long. Because that same month she also meets Calvin Harris, so…