Matty Healy, Taylor Swift.Photo: Stephane Cardinale - Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images; Arturo Holmes/FilmMagic
The 1975 frontmanMatty Healyis, seemingly to his own disappointment, shutting down rumors that a possibleTaylor Swiftcollaboration is in the works.
After Swift announced herupcoming albumMidnights, due out Oct. 21, a possible leaked track listing began making the rounds on social media.
Among those tracks were collaborations with Stevie Nicks, Lana Del Rey and The 1975, who were rumored to feature on a song called “In My Dreams.”
Healy, however, squashed the… well, dreams of fans who’d hoped the track was the real deal with a tweet on Saturday that read: “I would love that! But unfortunately FAKE NEWS :(”
In a social media post, the star said the record would tell “the stories of 13 sleepless nights scattered throughout my life.”
“This is a collection of music written in the middle of the night, a journey through terrors and sweet dreams,” she wrote. “The floors we pace and the demons we face. For all of us who have tossed and turned and decided to keep the lanterns lit and go searching - hoping that just maybe, when the clock strikes twelve … we’ll meet ourselves.”
The 1975, meanwhile, are preparing to release their own new album, titledBeing Funny in a Foreign Language, on Oct. 14.
The record, their fifth, is the group’s first time working with producerJack Antonoff, who is a longtime collaborator of Swift’s.
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Though Healy, 33, and Swift have yet to collaborate on a song, their paths have crossed in the past, and aPitchforkprofile of Healy published in August revealed that Swift had an early listen of their new album, which she described as “so funny.”
Healy has also expressed interest in working with the 11-time Grammy Award winner, and said onThe Green Roompodcast in 2019that he’d be down to produce an acoustic record for her if she wanted.
“I would never slag Taylor off, I think Taylor’s amazing,” he said. “Taylor Swiftdoing an acoustic record? I can’t think of a record that would sell more than that. Like,Taylor Swift’s intimate return to country. Of course, you’d wanna produce that! She’s [probably] gonna sit on that idea, but Taylor, if you ever want someone to help you set up the mics for your acoustic record, just so you know, I’m there.”
The pair were briefly romantically linked in 2014, though the “Happiness” singer described their bond as “a flirtation” in a2016 interview with Q.
“I mean, I got on E! News and people were like, ‘Who’s Matt Healy?’ So that was cool,” he said. “But I didn’t make a big deal out of it myself. It’s not really anything to talk about, because if she wasn’tTaylor Swiftwe wouldn’t be talking about her. She wasn’t a big impact on my life. It’s just interesting to me how interested the world is aboutTaylor Swift.”
source: people.com
