If you’ve been anywhere near the World Wide Web over the last few weeks, you might have come across various eyebrow-raising headlines centered around 1975The increasingly infamous frontman Matty Healy. “Notorious” because, well, he’s a bit of a wild card, as he proved by shocking the public just a few weeks ago devouring raw meat while fondling himself on stage.
However, this kind of goblin-like behavior is by no means out of character for the singer. During his band’s current US tour, Healy is all about provoking fans to question their adoration, while also making them love him all the more for it. Some fans even printed T-shirts with the words “I Hate Matty Healy.” He’s pretty weird, honestly.
Healy is so popular on TikTok right now that it’s pretty hard to scroll through a news feed for a long time without seeing him cheekily walk into a camera, sloppily sip from a bottle of wine, or mutter something objectionable while his voice is drenched in auto-tuning. This tends to happen during the song TOOTIMETOOTIMETOOTIME, which is now a trending theme on the platform, with the hashtag “Matty Healy auto tune” racking up a whopping 2.7 million views.
Probably the most watched moment is when the alt-pop singer called security in Phoenix, Arizona, for “standing there like a bunch of dickheads” and not helping fans who had fallen. You can imagine why it was so funny; listening to his casual disapproval in a weird robotic voice.
There’s also the time a fan threw him a couple of menthol cigarettes, to which he replied “Don’t throw menthol on this stage” (while hopping around like a bunny)…”I don’t like menthols” . Fans created hundreds of memes about it in response, causing Healy to repeat his dislike of auto-tuning menthols on subsequent shows.
As funny as he turned out to be, Healy is undoubtedly a heartthrob. In fact, he even gave a fan his “first kiss,” which was recorded and witnessed by over 4 million people on TikTok. At another show, he invited a fan on stage to have a tattoo done by her personal tattoo artist, while he softly sang into a hug.
While the 1975 star is certainly handsome, his fans are (thankfully) incredibly aware of how strange he is, not least on the numerous occasions he’s straddled his cameraman, thrusting his crotch and salivating over his ‘objective. And he has an odd tendency to touch himself provocatively, which continually sends the internet into a vertigo of uncomfortable cut-affected confusion.
There are countless manic Matty Healy moments out there, so for your entertainment, we’ve rounded up a few below. Don’t blame us though if you suddenly fall in love and/or find yourself getting a sick bucket.
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