The 1975 frontman Matty Healy is talking out once more on a current controversy surrounding his participation in inappropriate feedback made about rapper Ice Spice.
The singer confronted backlash on social media following an interview in February on The Adam Friedland Present. On the time, the present’s host introduced up that Ice Spice had mentioned she was a fan of the band. However the host went on to make jokes concerning the “Princess Diana” rapper, saying she seems like an “Inuit Spice Lady” and a “chubby Chinese language girl.”
Throughout the podcast episode that has since been faraway from Apple and Spotify, Healy laughed and engaged with the host as they continued to mock accents of individuals of Chinese language and Hawaiian descent, in addition to feedback concerning the singer sliding into Ice Spice’s DMs.
Billboard reported that Healy later considerably apologized for his participation within the dialog throughout a 1975 live performance in New Zealand. “I simply really feel a bit dangerous, and I’m type of a bit sorry if I’ve offended you,” he mentioned onstage on the time. “Ice Spice, I’m sorry. It’s not as a result of I’m irritated that me joking bought misconstrued. It’s as a result of I don’t need Ice Spice to assume I’m a dick. I like you, Ice Spice. I’m so sorry. I don’t need it to be misconstrued as imply. I don’t thoughts being a little bit of a joker … however I’m genuinely sorry if I’ve upset them as a result of I fucking love them.”
Now, throughout an interview with The New Yorker, printed on-line Monday, The 1975 singer is saying the entire controversy “doesn’t truly matter.”
“No one is sitting there at evening slumped at their laptop, and their boyfriend comes over and goes, ‘What’s fallacious, darling?’ they usually go, ‘It’s simply this factor with Matty Healy,’” he mentioned. “That doesn’t occur.”
Healy then responded to followers who declare to be offended by his previous remarks, saying, “You’re both deluded or you might be, sorry, a liar. You’re both mendacity that you’re damage, otherwise you’re a bit psychological for being damage. It’s simply individuals going, ‘Oh, there’s a foul factor over there, let me get as near it as doable so you may see how good I’m.’ And I type of need them to try this, as a result of they’re demonstrating one thing so base degree.”
