Rina Sawayama continues to be feeling a sure kind of means, and followers consider that Matty Healy is the reason for all of it.
Throughout her set at NOS Alive in Lisbon on Saturday (July 8), Sawayama went on a brief rant throughout her efficiency of “STFU!,” her rage-fueled tune about coping with microaggressions. “So I’ve been considering rather a lot about apologies. Isn’t it humorous how some individuals get away with not apologizing ever?” she stated. “For saying some racist s–t, for saying some sexist s–t? So let’s do this: Why don’t you apologize for as soon as in your life with out making it about your f–king self?”
Billboard has reached out to each Sawayama and Healy for additional remark.
Followers on-line rapidly linked the rant to The 1975 frontman Matty Healy after Sawayama seemingly known as him out earlier than the identical tune throughout her set at Glastonbury final month. “So tonight, this goes out to a white man that watches ‘Ghetto Gaggers’ and mocks Asian individuals on a podcast. He additionally owns my masters,” she stated throughout her efficiency. “I’ve had sufficient!”
Sawayama’s reference to a “podcast” seems to align with Healy’s controversial look on The Adam Friedland Present in February, throughout which he laughed on the hosts calling Ice Spice an “Inuit Spice Woman” and a “chubby Chinese language woman.”
Healy provided an onstage semi-apology to Ice Spice again in April, saying, “I’m sort of a bit sorry if I’ve offended you.” Nevertheless, in a later interview with The New Yorker, the star stated that the entire controversy “doesn’t really matter,” and insisted that these outraged had been both “deluded” or “a liar.”
Try the clip from Sawayama’s efficiency beneath:
