Taylor Swift’s Relationship With Matty Healy Was ‘More Intense Than Anyone Realized’: He ‘Really Broke’ Her Heart.

the general consensus was that Joe Alwyn should be worried. When Taylor Swift, famous for her deeply personal lyrics concerning love and heartache, released her 11th studio album, The Tortured Poets Department, on April 19, fans expected most of the tracks to dissect her six-year relationship with the actor that ended in early 2023. “It was really a lifeline for me.

Just the things I was going through, the things I was writing about, reminded me why songwriting actually gets me through my life,” Taylor told fans of the album, which she began working on in late 2022. “I’ve never had an album where I needed songwriting more than I needed it on Tortured Poets.”

So it was a huge surprise, then, that the most emotional tracks on the album seem to be about another ex of hers: Matty Healy. “What looked at the time like a two-month rebound with a bad boy was so much more intense than anyone realized,” a source exclusively tells Life & Style of her fling with the controversial 1975 frontman, who has battled mental health issues and drug addiction and has been accused of racist, xenophobic and homophobic behavior. Though they only officially dated from April to June of 2023, the musicians had been circling each other for a decade, including during the time she was dating the mild-mannered actor. “Forget Joe,” adds the source. “Matty is the man who really broke Taylor’s heart.”

Which ‘TTPD’ Lyrics Are About Matty Healy? The lyrics aren’t even very subtle. Swifties quickly deciphered lines that point to the 35-year-old rocker, such as his documented obsession with typewriters to his love of music by the Blue Nile, the Starting Line and Charlie Puth. Fans also noted how Taylor, 34, hints in several different songs at rekindling romance. “But it gets a lot darker and tormented,” says the source. “There are references to a lover’s many scandals, trying to score pills from her friends and even suggesting he would kill himself if she ever left.”