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NEW YORK, NEW YORK – MAY 16: Taylor Swift and Matty Healy seen leaving ‘The Electric Lady’ studio in Manhattan on May 16, 2023 in New York City. (Photo by Robert Kamau\/GC Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Taylor Swift has established quite a reputation<\/em> for mining her dating experiences<\/a> for song material, dropping major hints about her subjects in the process. So when her 31-song album\u00a0The Tortured Poets Department<\/em> <\/a>dropped in April 2024, amid a public breakup with Joe Alwyn<\/a>, a short-lived tryst<\/a> with the 1975 frontman Matty Healy, and a budding romance with Travis Kelce<\/a>, there was a whole lot of material to dissect and dots to connect.<\/span><\/p>\n

One song in particular seemed to recall a whirlwind relationship with Healy<\/a>, who cemented himself as a key player in Swiftie lore after their fling\u2014and all its public backlash. Titled ‘Guilty as Sin’, its lyrics paint a picture of a love of the forbidden kind, with an elusive figure that seems to play mind games.<\/p>\n

It starts with a reference to another song.<\/p>\n

“Drowning in the Blue Nile \/ He sent me ‘Downtown Lights’ \/ I hadn’t heard it in a while,” it begins, which many interpreted as a romantic\u2014albeit vague\u2014gesture.<\/p>\n

Then, confirming many fan theories, Healy took it upon himself to share a cover of ‘The Downtown Lights’ by 80s band The Blue Nile to his Instagram<\/a> Stories.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you don\u2019t know this cover, you are welcome,” he wrote alongside a photo of Annie Lennox’s cover. Naturally, fans were quick to lose their minds about the supposed admission.<\/p>\n

Now, the singer ostensibly claims the lyrics once again. Only, this time, he twists the knife with a perceived dig at Swift’s fans. Upon his return to the platform X (formerly known as Twitter), Healy dropped a loaded comment about the song referenced in ‘Guilty as Sin’.<\/p>\n

“I think I sent my last Uber driver \u2018The Downtown Lights\u2019,” he wrote. “He didn\u2019t think it was \u2018coded\u2019. He is employed tho.”<\/p>\n

Swifties didn’t take too kindly to the implication that anyone who deemed the (obviously romantic) song as meaningful suffered from a surplus of time on their hands. Frankly, with lyrics like “Sometimes I walk away \/ When all I really wanna do \/ Is love and hold you right” and “Nobody loves you this way”, we’d have to disagree.<\/p>\n

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Matty Healy and Gabbriette \/ Image: Instagram<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After first meeting in 2014, Swift and Healy briefly dated in 2023 following her breakup with Joe Alwyn<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Their romance was fraught with public scrutiny, with many of Healy<\/a>‘s past blunders (some more objectively condemnable than others) resurfacing at the time.<\/p>\n

Though short, their time together clearly inspired some big feelings for Swift, who now finds herself with Travis Kelce<\/a>. 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