Rina Sawayama calls out The 1975’s Matty Healy during her Glastonbury set
The popstar took aim at her fellow label-mate before performing her hit ‘STFU!’
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Before performing her track STFU! at Glastonbury yesterday, British pop star (and icon in her own right) Rina Sawayama called out The 1975 frontman, dedicating the song to him in a memorable intro that has travelled far and wide across the Internet.
“Tonight, this song goes out to a white man that watches Ghetto Gaggers and mocks Asian people on a podcast,” she said, before going on to announce, “He also owns my masters, I’ve had enough.”
Matty Healy was a director at Dirty Hit until April this year, leaving the role a few months after the podcast aired, seemingly due to backlash. The band are still label mates with the British-Japanese singer — Healy supposedly “scouted” Sawayama.
After joining the record label in 2020, she released her debut studio album, SAWAYAMA, before sharing a deluxe version that featured a cover of The 1975’s Love It If We Made It.
Towards the end of Rina’s noteworthy Glastonbury performance, she surprised the audience with a rendition of Limp Bizkit’s Break Stuff. Now that’s what I call one hell of a surprise.
Watch Rina Sawayama’s full Glastonbury set here.