Matt Healy has ousted Jake Gyllenhaal from the podium of Taylor Swift's worst exes

If we ever have to draw up a ranking of Taylor Swift's exes, from worst to best, Jake Gyllenhaal would certainly be at the top of the list: there is at least an entire album to confirm this vision (Red), various songs (like the recent one The Manuscript) and several comments in some interviews. This was true, however, until a few days ago, just before the release of the latest album The Tortured Poets Department which led us to review all our beliefs on this topic. Indeed, after listening to the new songs, we can say with absolute certainty that the real toxic ex is no longer the actor, but Matty Healy, the frontman of The 1975 with whom Swift had a brief flirtation last summer.

We are sorry to deny Healy's entourage who, following the album's release, declared that they felt relieved at how their relationship was described, but the singer really came out with broken bones and the vague feeling he conveyed to us who listened to the songs was that Swift had classified him among those people she hopes to never see again and for whom she only has negative feelings. If Gyllenhaal was the love of your twenties that you look back on with nostalgia and anger because, out of naivety, you were unable to grasp the signs that would have inevitably wrecked the relationship, Healy, on the other hand, quickly showed his nature, but you can't help but regret the short time (Swift, in the album, uses the term “fortnight” which can be translated as 15 days) spent together with a false, petty person who took advantage of the situation to exploit the popularity of the singer and then run away at the first available opportunity.

The new All too well (for the more forgetful, it is the song that tells in great detail the story with Jake Gyllenhaal), in The Tortured Poets Departmentit's surely The smallest man who ever lived: a title that needs no further explanation and which will weigh heavily on Healy's reputation. There is no space in this album for any positive feelings towards Healy, except perhaps for the brief love at first sight felt by the singer, after meeting him, which for a few days deluded her that all the negative judgments that gravitated around to him they were only the result of gossip. But no: Matty Healy is truly a non-transparent, possessive, opportunistic person and incapable of understanding when he is offensive (if the picture seems exaggerated to you, listen carefully Fortnight, Down Bad And The Black Dog).

Robert Kamau

It happens to us all to come across that person that we would like to erase from our lives, to archive in our memory like a bad dream that we hope to remember less and less. Surely, Taylor Swift thought she had already lived this experience with Jake Gyllenhaal, but her fate also introduced her to Matt Healy. However, almost a year later, Healy can be seen as that ex who made you understand definitively what you don't want from a relationship and who helps you fall in love with the right one who, in this case, is Travis Kelce.