The singer directs clear words against Matty Healy on stage.
Rina Sawayama critiqued Matty Healy of The 1975 during her performance at the Glastonbury Festival. While on stage performing her song “STFU!” over the riff of Korn’s “Blind,” Sawayama said, “I’m fed up with my micro-aggressions. Tonight it goes straight to the white man watching ‘Ghetto Gaggers’ and making fun of Asians on a podcast…I’ve had enough!”
The 32-year-old Japanese-born singer-songwriter Matty Healy may have meant by that. In February, Stereogum reported that he poked fun at his own taste in porn on a (now-deleted) episode of the Adam Friedland Show podcast: he talked about turning to Ghetto Gaggers platform that focuses on PoC humiliation) watched someone being “just brutalized”.
Friedland and his co-host Nick Mullen then attempted to guess rapper Ice Spice’s ethnicity, derogatory imitating Chinese, Japanese, and Hawaiian accents, in this podcast episode. While Healy reportedly didn’t participate in the mocking impersonations, he did join in the laughs with the podcast hosts.
Sawayama also said on the Glastonbury stage that “the white man” also “owns her masterings” – a reference to the fact that she and The 1975 are both signed to Dirty Hit. A label whose parent company Healy was boss from 2018 to April 2023.
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The singer also shared the stage with Elton John at Glastonbury for his final UK performance. Her current album, HOLD THE GIRL, was released in 2022.