‘I’ve had enough!’ Rina Sawayama takes out label mate Matty Healy in Glastonbury following his recent racism controversy
Rina Sawayama publicly called out 1975 frontman Matty Healy during her performance at Glastonbury on Saturday.
The 32-year-old artist slammed the 34-year-old singer for a podcast appearance in which he interjected in mockery of rapper Ice Spice and referenced racially motivated pornography.
While Japanese and British star Rina didn’t directly mention Matty’s name on stage, she did make clear reference to him when introducing her track STFU.
She said, “I wrote that because I was tired of these microaggressions.”
“This goes to a white man who watches Ghetto Gaggers and makes fun of Asians on a podcast.”
Speaking up: Rina Sawayama called out 1975 frontman Matty Healy publicly during her performance at Glastonbury on Saturday
Difficult: The 32-year-old artist criticized the 34-year-old singer for a podcast appearance in which he interjected in mockery of rapper Ice Spice and referenced racially motivated pornography
She added: ‘He owns gentlemen too!’ I’ve had enough!’
Sawayama is signed to Dirty Hit, a record label that also releases music from the 1975s.
In February, Matty spoke about masturbating to porn of “brutalized” women during an appearance on The Adam Friedland Show podcast.
Friedland and his co-host Nick Mullen brought up an incident in which Friedland and a woman walked into Healy masturbating to what they described as “hardcore pornography” 30 seconds after leaving a party at Healy’s house .
The trio said Matty, 34, watches Ghetto Gaggers, a porn site known for videos showing the humiliation and brutalization of mostly black women.
In the same podcast episode, Healy was accused of racism for commenting on rapper Ice Spice.
Healy claimed he tried to message the rapper on Instagram and then, along with Friedland and Mullen, appeared to have confused her origins, referring to them as Inuit and Chinese, mimicking and mocking both’s accents.
The podcast episode was later removed from both Spotify and Apple Music due to its objectionable content.
Stark: While Japanese and British star Rina didn’t directly name Matty on stage, she did reference him clearly when introducing her track STFU
Words: She said, “I wrote this because I was sick of these microaggressions.” This goes to a white man watching “Ghetto Gaggers” and making fun of Asians on a podcast.
Healy apologized for comments about Ice Spice during a 1975 concert in New Zealand.
The musician told the audience, as reported by Rolling Stone, that he “makes a joke out of everything” and “can sometimes go too far in front of too many people”.
“Ice Spice, I’m sorry. It’s not because I’m upset that my joke was misconstrued. That’s because I don’t want Ice Spice to think I’m an a***er. I love you Ice Spice. “I’m so sorry,” he said.
Healy was forced to disable his Twitter account in 2020 after posting a poorly received tweet following the death of George Floyd at the hands of a white Minneapolis police officer.
Healy tweeted at the time, “If you truly believe ALL LIVES MATTER matters you need to stop enabling the end of black people,” along with a link to his track, “Love It If We Made It.”
The connection angered many fans as they felt the singer was using the tragic death as a promotional tool.
Shocking Remarks: In February, Matty opened up about masturbating to porn of “brutalized” women during an appearance on The Adam Friedland Show podcast