The chokehold Matty Healy of the 1975's wildly offensive podcast appearance discussing Ice Spice's ethnicity seems to have on the cultural imagination — and, consequently, the frontperson's own — this year is something they'll probably study someday.
Despite the fact that the Bronx rapper said last week that she "didn't really care" about what Healy (and the two hosts of the Adam Friedland Show podcast) said or their trying-on racist accents in her honour, citing confusion as her predominant emotion in that moment: "I heard 'chubby Chinese lady' or some shit like that, and I'm like, 'Huh? What does that even mean?'"
Although he previously sort of apologized and then said the controversy didn't "actually matter," Healy took up the matter yet again while performing at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles last night (October 2) amid the 1975's Still... at their Very Best North American tour.
The singer acknowledged that "some of my actions have hurt some people," explaining to the crowd that he had gone too far in performing "exaggerated versions" of himself — whether he's in the podcast arena, giving a print interview or headlining a stadium — "in an often misguided attempt to the kind of character role of the 21st-century rockstar."
"I think it is important to take inventory of yourself, so you become aware when your intentions and your actions don't align," Healy said. "So, because some of my actions have hurt some people, I apologize to those people, and I pledge to do better moving forward. You see, as an artist, I want to create an environment for myself to perform where not everything that I do is taken literally."
He added, "Men would rather do offensive impressions for attention than go to therapy," before launching into a well-known content-creator bank of phrases advertising the online therapy service BetterHelp. It is painfully unclear whether Healy was doing it as some kind of bit or he was actually getting paid to advertise the service (which, for the record, is well worth looking into as a more accessible therapy option).
If Matty Healy does anything immaculately, it's toeing the "humorous" social commentary line into unpurposeful oblivion. (Case in point: his incredibly avant-garde and ableist Boygenius joke.) Check out some fan-shot video footage of the concert diatribe below.
Despite the fact that the Bronx rapper said last week that she "didn't really care" about what Healy (and the two hosts of the Adam Friedland Show podcast) said or their trying-on racist accents in her honour, citing confusion as her predominant emotion in that moment: "I heard 'chubby Chinese lady' or some shit like that, and I'm like, 'Huh? What does that even mean?'"
Although he previously sort of apologized and then said the controversy didn't "actually matter," Healy took up the matter yet again while performing at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles last night (October 2) amid the 1975's Still... at their Very Best North American tour.
The singer acknowledged that "some of my actions have hurt some people," explaining to the crowd that he had gone too far in performing "exaggerated versions" of himself — whether he's in the podcast arena, giving a print interview or headlining a stadium — "in an often misguided attempt to the kind of character role of the 21st-century rockstar."
"I think it is important to take inventory of yourself, so you become aware when your intentions and your actions don't align," Healy said. "So, because some of my actions have hurt some people, I apologize to those people, and I pledge to do better moving forward. You see, as an artist, I want to create an environment for myself to perform where not everything that I do is taken literally."
He added, "Men would rather do offensive impressions for attention than go to therapy," before launching into a well-known content-creator bank of phrases advertising the online therapy service BetterHelp. It is painfully unclear whether Healy was doing it as some kind of bit or he was actually getting paid to advertise the service (which, for the record, is well worth looking into as a more accessible therapy option).
If Matty Healy does anything immaculately, it's toeing the "humorous" social commentary line into unpurposeful oblivion. (Case in point: his incredibly avant-garde and ableist Boygenius joke.) Check out some fan-shot video footage of the concert diatribe below.
