Rina Sawayama Appears to Address Matty Healy, Performs ‘STFU!’ in His Honor at 2023 Glastonbury Festival

25.06.2023

Rina Sawayama appears to be openly speaking up versus Matty Healy, her labelmate at Dirty Hit Records. Sawayama made a declaration dragging Healy on Saturday (June 24) throughout her collection at Glastonbury Festival. Though she didn’t state his name, she referenced debatable remarks The 1975 frontman has actually belonged of in current months as well as committed her tune “STFU!” his method.

“I wrote this next song because I was sick and tired of these microaggressions. So tonight, this goes out to a white man that watches ‘Ghetto Gaggers’ and mocks Asian people on a podcast. He also owns my masters,” she stated. “I’ve had enough!”

Sawayama complied with “STFU!” with her take on Limp Bizkit’s “Break Stuff.”

In her onstage protest at Glastonbury, Sawayama was describing Healy’s look on an episode of The Adam Friedland Show in February that has actually because been eliminated from Apple as well as Spotify. The episode had the program’s hosts making racist jokes concerning rap artist Ice Spice seeming like an “Inuit Spice Girl” as well as a “chubby Chinese lady,” as well as they mockingly copied Chinese as well as Hawaiian accents. Also in the episode, they joked around Healy viewing “Ghetto Gaggers” porn.

Healy later on half-apologized for making fun of as well as involving with the hosts’ comments throughout an April performance in Auckland, New Zealand. “I just feel a bit bad, and I’m kind of a bit sorry if I’ve offended you,” he stated at the time. “Ice Spice, I’m sorry. It’s not because I’m annoyed that me joking got misconstrued. It’s because I don’t want Ice Spice to think I’m a d—. I love you, Ice Spice. I’m so sorry. I don’t want it to be misconstrued as mean.”

Healy discussed the scenario once again in a quote released by the The New Yorker in May.

“Nobody is sitting there at night slumped at their computer, and their boyfriend comes over and goes, ‘What’s wrong, darling?’ and they go, ‘It’s just this thing with Matty Healy. That doesn’t happen,” he stated.

“You’re either deluded or you are, sorry, a liar,” he proceeded, attending to individuals that stated they were upset by the comments. “You’re either lying that you are hurt, or you’re a bit mental for being hurt. It’s just people going, ‘Oh, there’s a bad thing over there, let me get as close to it as possible so you can see how good I am.’ And I kind of want them to do that, because they’re demonstrating something so base level.”

Healy was previously a supervisor at Dirty Hit, the document tag to which Sawayama as well as The 1975 are both authorized, however in April reportedly stepped down from that duty. The 1975’s supervisor, Jamie Oborne, is among the creators of the British indie tag.

Sawayama authorized with the tag in 2019, as well as in 2020 “STFU!” came to be the lead solitary from her launching cd, Sawayama. She covered The 1975’s “Love It If We Made It” for the luxurious version of Sawayama, launched using Dirty Hit.

Watch a clip of Sawayama talking with the Glastonbury group in advance of “STFU!” listed below.