#but I'm also very aware of performative activism and performative social media antics

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Cool non-binary pronouns you got in your profile there. It'd be a real shame if you started acting like a man on the internet

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I think I should send this as a 1975 fan and Matty fan lol just to give some more perspective lol and I’m a POC who’s been following both him and Taylor for a long time.

Because I’ve been his fan for years since their first album and the thing is he’s always bordered on that VERGE of getting cancelled but I believe to say that Taylor and Matty are on two opposite side of the spectrum is wrong because that would imply that Taylor is left and Matty is right and that’s far from the truth.

The podcast thing is just about the WORST thing he could have done, ever. And I’m talking about when it was released the 1975twt was going crazy and people were SERIOUS about boycotting him and stopping to listening to his music and these are the people who KNEW that the podcast guys are satire and that they say things like that just to provoke people and if you listen to the podcast or just see transcripts to protect your peace you’ll see that they were the ones who were initiating this whole thing and then they would expect him to agree with them so he did. It’s bad. I’m not defending him. It was fucked up and he never should have done it. I would recommend seeing his apology video from their concert in Sydney that he thought it would be just like other times and that only people he knows would listen to the podcast but that’s obviously not true and he knew that he went too far which is also why he had the podcast taken down (the hosts were not happy about it they do this literally every single time and they were reluctant but eventually did). The Kanye thing has never been about the n*zi or Anti-Semitism either it was a tweet that Trump made about him and the salute thing on stage was about Kanye and his anti semitic rant he went on on Twitter and it was Matty calling him a N*zi but doing the salute with left hand (it was originally done with Right hand).

If you see him going on recent concerts you’ll see that he took the social media off and said to people that he will try to be less of an asshole than before and I really hope he works on that because while his intentions are always good and he always uses satire to get his messages across I completely understand why people who don’t know him or are not aware with his antics might not see them that way and get hurt!

Again, this is not me calling you out or anyone I just thought that I would give an outside perspective in this so you know what’s been going on with the 1975 because he’s been very vocal about his activism in the past and technically he’s more of an activist than Taylor herself and it goes beyond performative activism for him for how I have seen him over the years. These are definitely important discussions to be had and it’s great to see all the facts out there!💕

thanks for the perspective anon!

i wouldn't say that taylor and matty are on opposite sides of the spectrum exactly (because again, i'm not too familiar with them) but it's more so about taylor's "feminism" vs what matty has said/done in the past that don't add up to me.

i can't speak to much of this really, as i've never been a fan of the 1975/matty healy, but from what i've heard, it... doesn't sound good. like. it sounds kinda bad. i saw clips of the podcast a few days ago and i understand that he was just joking around, but jokes like that are... not funny. i'm glad to hear that he's taking accountability for what he said and not ignoring it entirely, but it left an icky taste in my mouth