Rina Sawayama appeared to molest Matty Healy from the 1975s during her performance at Glastonbury. During the introduction of the song “STFU!” on the Woodsies stage in Glastonbury, Sawayama said, “Tonight this goes to a white man who’s watching Ghetto Gaggers and making fun of Asians on a podcast… He also owns my championship titles… I’ve had enough.” (Sawayama and The 1975 are both signed to Dirty Hit. As The Independent notes, Healy was a director of Dirty Hit Limited, the label’s parent company, from 2018 to April 2023.)
Sawayama undoubtedly had an altercation with Healy’s self-confessed taste in porn, which he discussed during an appearance on a February episode of The Adam Friedland Show podcast. In that episode, Healy spoke about watching someone being “just brutalized” on “Ghetto Gaggers,” a type of “abuse porn” website that focuses on the humiliation and degradation of women of color.
Friedland and co-host Nick Mullen also attempted to guess the rapper Ice Spice’s ethnicity, disparagingly portraying Chinese, Japanese, and Hawaiian accents. (Healy didn’t partake in those mocking accents, but he did laugh with the podcast hosts.) The episode has since been removed from the podcast’s feed, and Healy apologized to Ice Spice during an April show in New Zealand.
Check out Sawayama below.