Online, fans immediately began speculating that the song is about Taylor Swift, largely due to the lyrics, “Don’t wanna see her backstage at my boyfriend’s show. / Fingers crossed behind my back, I hope they break up quick,” which appear to be a reference to Swift’s headline-making relationship with The 1975 frontman Matty Healy. Charli recently wed Healy’s bandmate, drummer George Daniel.

Though “I hope they break up quick” is not a flattering lyric, the rest of the song is fairly innocuous—a peek behind the curtain at Charli’s anxiety-riddled mind. Later she would explain that the song “is about me and my feelings and my anxiety and the way my brain creates narratives and stories in my head when I feel insecure and how I don’t want to be in those situations physically when I feel self-doubt.”

The Matty Healy of it all

Days after the release of Brat on June 7, 2024, the model Gabriette—who also happens to be a close friend and former bandmate of Charli—shared a photo of an engagement ring from The 1975 frontman Matty Healy. “MARRYING THE 1975 IS VERY BRAT,” Gabriette wrote in green text over a photo of her black diamond ring.

Healy’s mother later confirmed the engagement during an appearance on the British talk show Loose Women.

Healy, of course, is largely believed to be the titular villain of Swift’s 2024 album, The Tortured Poets Department, which was released in April of 2024. Swift and Healy’s short-lived affair was the hottest story of spring-summer 2023, spun as a rebound relationship following Swift’s breakup with the British actor Joe Alwyn. It is believed that Gabriette and Healy began dating shortly after his breakup from Swift.

Given Charli’s “I hope they break up” lyric and the fact that Healy moved on with one of her dear friends, Swifties were left with a sour taste in their mouths following the engagement announcement. However, there’s no evidence of any foul play on Charli’s, Healy’s, or Gabriette’s part.

Charli shuts down anti-Taylor chants at her shows: “I will not tolerate it.”

On June 23, Charli condemned a video of some of her Brazilian fans chanting “Death to Taylor” in Portuguese at one of her shows.



By Glamour

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