Rina Sawayama; Matty Healy.Photo:John Nacion/Shutterstock, Thomas Niedermueller/Getty
John Nacion/Shutterstock, Thomas Niedermueller/Getty
The pop star, 32, took a moment during her Glastonbury Festival set on Saturday toexplain why she wrote her song"STFU," sharing that it was because she was “sick and tired of microaggressions.”
“So, tonight, this song goes out to a white man who watchesGhetto Gaggersand mocks Asian people on a podcast,” Sawayama said, seemingly referring to Healy. “He also owns my masters. I’ve had enough.”
Rina Sawayama performs at Glastonbury on June 24, 2023.Shirlaine Forrest/Redferns
Shirlaine Forrest/Redferns
“Hearing the group’s mimicry of stereotypical Asian accents prompts an all too familiar feeling, one we had relegated to the racist taunts and mockery of ‘Asian’ accents from the schoolyard bullies of the past,” the March statement read, in part.
Matty Healy performs at Southside Festival on June 16, 2023.Thomas Niedermueller/Getty
Thomas Niedermueller/Getty
After the Friedland podcast, where hosts called Ice Spice an “Inuit Spice Girl,” Healyshared in an interview withThe New Yorkerthathe’d purposely baited his fans “a little bit.” Healy eventuallyshared an apologyduring a concert in New Zealand in April, explaining to his crowd that he “never meant to hurt anybody.”
“Sorry if I’ve offended you. Ice Spice, I’m sorry,” Healy said. “It’s not because I’m annoyed that me joking got misconstrued, it’s ‘cause I don’t want Ice Spice to think that I’m a d—,” he said of the 23-year-old rapper.
“I love you Ice Spice…. It’s OK for me to be like, a trickster or whatever, but I don’t want to be perceived as mean-hearted.”
He added: “We all get it wrong, and I just have to do it in public and then apologize to Ice Spice and my life’s just a bit weird. But I am genuinely sorry if I upset her ‘cause I f—ing love her.”
Ice Spice at the 2022 BET Hip Hop Awards on Sept. 30, 2022.Aaron J. Thornton/WireImage
Aaron J. Thornton/WireImage
The “Princess Diana” rapper recently joined Healy’s then-rumored girlfriendTaylor Swifton stage at MetLife Stadium in New Jerseyto perform their new remixed version of “Karma.” Healy and Swift at the time had been linked since early May, but Swift, 33, said the “Karma” duet and music videowere recorded months earlier. Shortly after the song’s release, it was reported that Healy and Swiftsplitafter awhirlwind romance.
“She had fun with him, but it was always casual,” a source confirmed to PEOPLE earlier in June. “They are no longer romantically involved.”
source: people.com
