Taylor Swift‘s Ex Matty Healy Is Not ‘Surprised’ by Her Alleged Diss Track, Per His Aunt

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Given how many Taylor Swift fans expected her new album to focus on her six-year relationship with Joe Alwyn, Swifties were surprised by how much air time the pop star seemed to devote to her summer fling with Matty Healy.

You know who “will not be surprised” by the alleged Matty Healy songs on The Tortured Poets Department? More specifically, the scathing breakup track, “The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived"? The 1975 frontman himself. “Nothing surprises him any more,” Healy's aunt Debbie Dedes recently told the Daily Mail. “He will not be surprised by the song. Him and her know what went on.”

While Taylor Swift and Matty Healy’s history goes all the back to 2014, the pair were briefly linked in May 2023, their tryst nestled right between her split from Alwyn and her current romance with NFL player Travis Kelce. You can read their full timeline here.

If “TSMWEL” really is about Healy, the lyrics seem to suggest she was ghosted by the singer after being love bombed. “Was any of it true? Gazing at me starry-eyed in your Jehovah's Witness suit,” she sings in the first verse. “Who the fuck was that guy? You tried to buy some pills from a friend of friends of mine. They just ghosted you. Now you know what it feels like.”

“[Taylor] writes about all her relationships, doesn't she? I don't think it will come as a shock to [Matty] at all,” Dede continued. “He's very happy in his new relationship so I'm sure he will be focusing on that.” Dede also seemed to imply that Swift left out Healy's side of the story, telling the Daily Mail, “As my nephew, we know a bit more about what went on than has been in the press.”

All that being said, another source recently told Us Weekly that Healy had been “worried that their story would be shed in a negative light” but “couldn’t be happier” with how he was depicted. “Matty still thinks very highly of Taylor, but we were all nervous about what she might have said on the album,” the source said. “Matty’s family knew about the relationship and they were worried that Taylor was going to rip him apart.”

The source continued, “Matty has struggled with life in the public eye, and he’s been doing really well, but the last thing that he needs is for every Swiftie in the world to think he’s a villain.”

In her 11th studio album, Swift grapples with the consequences of the monoculture she’s built around herself.

Originally Appeared on Glamour