Matty Healy denies that The 1975 will characteristic on Taylor Swift’s ‘Midnights’
Matty Healy has confirmed {that a} “leaked” tracklisting for Taylor Swift’s upcoming ‘Midnights’ album is faux, after The 1975 had been listed as a featured artist on it.
The faux leak generated buzz when it circulated on social media yesterday (September 3), with the album’s cowl artwork – which at the moment has its 13 songs listed as ‘Monitor One’, ‘Monitor Two’, ‘Monitor Three’ and so forth – photoshopped to incorporate precise music names. Amongst them had been three songs with featured artists: ‘In My Desires’ with The 1975, ‘Good In The Darkish’ with Lana Del Ray, and ‘Halle’ with Stevie Nicks.
Taking to his personal social media, The 1975’s frontman shot the “leak” down, writing: “I’d love that! However sadly FAKE NEWS.”
I’d love that! However sadly FAKE NEWS 🙁 https://t.co/WGDlv9jgfF
— Matty (@MatthewTHealy) September 3, 2022
Followers of Swift and The 1975 had a combined response to the information, with most replies both imploring Healy to “make it occur” or declaring him to be mendacity.
On the time of writing, not one of the tracks on ‘Midnights’ have been publicly revealed. Swift confirmed off bodily copies in a current video shared to her Instagram – the place she introduced three ultra-limited, particular editions of the album – however the covers had been proven with the tracklisting deliberately blurred out. It’s not but identified when Swift plans to disclose the album’s first single, or if it any songs will characteristic visitor spots.
Swift detailed ‘Midnights’ within the early hours of Monday morning (August 29) after making a shock announcement at this yr’s MTV Video Music Awards lower than an hour earlier. Whereas accepting the second of three awards she bagged on the evening – Video of the 12 months for ‘All Too Nicely (10 Minute Model) (Taylor’s Model)’ – Swift revealed: “My model new album comes out October 21. I’ll let you know extra at midnight.”
In a poetic message shared alongside the album’s formal unveiling, Swift described ‘Midnights’ as “the tales of 13 sleepless nights scattered all through my life”.
On what to anticipate from its themes, she wrote: “This can be a assortment of music written in the midst of the evening, a journey by terrors and candy desires. The flooring we tempo and the demons we face. For all of us who’ve tossed and turned and determined to maintain the lanterns lit and search around – hoping that simply possibly, when the clock strikes twelve… we’ll meet ourselves.”
Arriving as her tenth studio album, ’Midnights’ will comply with up on Swift’s two 2020 information, ‘Folklore’ and ‘Evermore’, in addition to final yr’s re-recorded variations of ‘Fearless’ and ‘Crimson’.
In the meantime, The 1975 have a brand new document of their very own across the nook: they’ll launch their fifth studio album, ‘Being Humorous In A International Language’, on October 14 through Soiled Hit. They’ve previewed the album with three singles up to now: ‘Half Of The Band’, ‘Happiness’ and ‘I’m In Love With You’.