Pop singer Rina Sawayama has called out the lead singer of The 1975, Matty Healy, during her Glastonbury set for the highly controversial comments he made on an American podcast in February. While introducing her song “STFU!”, the 32-year-old made reference to Matty Healy.

“I wrote this next song because I was sick and tired of microaggressions. So, tonight, this song goes out to a white man who watches Ghetto Gaggers and mocks Asian people on a podcast. He also owns my masters. I’ve had enough,” she said to the Glastonbury audience. Despite not mentioning his name, Sawayama was referring to Matty Healy as the “white man” in her speech.

Watch Rina Sawayama calling out Matty Healy at Glastonbury Festival below:

Rina Sawayama calling out Matty Healy at Glastonbury. pic.twitter.com/cBE5rWWtFt

— Pop Base (@PopBase) June 24, 2023

On an episode of The Adam Friedland Show, Healy admitted to watching a pornography series in which black women are “brutalised” and degraded by white men. He also joined in with mocking the US rapper Ice Spice which they made racist jokes regarding her heritage. The hosts referred to the rapper as an “Inuit Spice Girl” and “This chubby Chinese lady”. They then proceeded to mock Japanese, Chinese, and Hawaiian accents while Healy laughed. The offensive episode has since been removed from Apple and Spotify.

Both musicians, Rina Sawayama and Matty Healy’s band The 1975, are signed under same label, Dirty Hit, which is a British independent record label. The 1975 was one of the first acts to be signed on to the label and achieved mainstream success. Since then, other artists under this label include beabadoobe, No Rome, and Pale Waves.

Healy served as director of Dirty Hit Limited, the private limited company behind the record label Dirty Hit, and held the position for 5 years from December 2018 until his termination on April 4, 2023 for unspecified reasons.

However, Healy made somewhat of an apology to Ice Spice for his derogatory remarks on the Adam Friedland Show podcast. At a concert in New Zealand, he said, “I just feel a bit bad, and I’m kind of a bit sorry if I’ve offended you. 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 dick. I love you, Ice Spice. I’m so sorry.” 

Watch Matty Healy’s apology to Ice Spice at his band’s concert in New Zealand below:

matty healy apologising to @icespicee_ in auckland/nz: pic.twitter.com/gKrKET6Rd2

— Coup De Main (@coupdemain) April 21, 2023