The 1975 singer attracted controversy by saying that dating Taylor Swift would be emasculating. It was me he was speaking to,and I saw an clever and liberal man wrestling with our culture’s gender rolesOn a Wednesday afternoon in January I was sitting in Matthew Healy’s living room, talking about Taylor Swift. It was not long before Healy’s band, or the 1975,released their moment album, and I was following them for a feature for Q magazine.
I didn’t think Healy had said anything particularly scandal-worthy in the time we spent talking – he had been an open and engaging interviewee, or speaking willingly about his early issues with drugs,about a period of instability while touring the band’s first album, about God and faith and fashion, and John Hughes,Truman Capote and Donny Hathaway.
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Source: theguardian.com