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The 1975 Singer Deactivates Twitter After Using Black Lives Matter To Promote Song

Matt Healy, the lead singer of pop rock band, The 1975, hopped off Twitter after he got roasted for using Black Lives Matter to promote his song.

Matt Healy, the lead singer of British pop rock band, The 1975, has come under fire for a recent exploitative tweet regarding the Black Lives Matter movement. As protests against the police killing of George Floyd persist across the country, many have spoken out on the issues of police brutality and racism against Black people. Matt was among those people to voice their opinions, but he may have gone about it the wrong way.

The 1975 Singer Deactivates Twitter After Using Black Lives Matter To Promote SongKevin Winter/Getty Images for Coachella

On Thursday (May 28th), Matt posted a tweet that read, "If you truly believe that ‘ALL LIVES MATTER’ you need to stop facilitating the end of black ones." While this sentiment did not spark outrage, the rest of the tweet certainly did. Matt proceeded to link the music video to his band's song, "Love It If We Made It." Many accused him of acting tasteless by co-opting an important movement to promote his own 2-year-old song.

He later deleted the tweet amid backlash, but reposted the link to the song once again in a new tweet that reportedly read: "Sorry I did not link my song in that tweet to make it about me it’s just that the song is literally about this disgusting situation and speaks more eloquently than I can on Twitter." Some of the lyrics in the song that he might have been referring to include the following: "We’re f*cking in a car, shooting heroin/Saying controversial things just for the hell of it/Selling melanin and then suffocate the black men/Start with misdemeanors and we’ll make a business out of them."

Soon after posting this more recent tweet, he deactivated his account altogether. He began trending on Twitter as users expressed how appalled they were by his actions.

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FKA Twigs’ Pole Dancing Skills Put On Full Display: Watch


FKA Twigs with the moves.

When FKA Twigs dropped off her “Cellophane” video last year (before the arrival of her Magdalene album) the singer showcased her impressive pole dancing skills as the video showcased her stripping her way into another universe. After the visuals were released, the UK bred singer released another short documentary on the extensive training and practice that went into perfecting her moves. 

FKA Twigs' Pole Dancing Skills Put On Full Display: Watch
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Such training and effort into learning her new skill have not gone to waste since FKA is still perfecting her moves and has showcased a video of her latest effort on Instagram. In the clip below, you can see the “Water Me” singer hanging upside on a pole as she twirls around with her leg holding her steady. “Can u find the birthday cake?” she captioned the clip. 

FKA’s latest upload comes just days after she was spotted with 1975 singer Matt Healy. The duo has been seen cozying up around town leading us to believe that a new romance is on the rise. FKA split things off with Shia LaBeouf in June of last year to focus on her career. “They both have put their relationship on hold. FKA has been focusing on her tour and she wanted to put all of her heart and soul into it. They are really up in the air right now and we’re waiting until all of her work commitments were fulfilled to figure it out,” a source said at the time.