Healy’s lyrical acoustics and soft ballads get my accolade. But when he flagrantly flouts Malaysian laws and blatantly offends local customs with his ‘in-your-face’ sexual fluidity – that makes me mad.
As reported in the BBC, Healy insulted the Malaysian government and said he was “furious” that he made “a mistake when we were booking shows… I do not see the point of inviting The 1975 to a country and then telling us who we can have sex with.”
Healy’s drunken slobber with his male bassist is all over YouTube. He pulled a similar stunt in August 2019 – to provoke the anti-LGBT establishment and propagate his gay politics.
However, Healy, a recovering heroin addict, does not identify as gay, according to his Wikipedia writeup. He describes his private self as...