Healy was first linked to singer Halsey in 2015 after they had been seen at one in every of The 1975’s gigs. Speaking about how the pair first grew to become acquainted, the “You Should Be Sad” singer stated in a 2014 interview with All Things Go: “When I first began writing I used to be an enormous fan of this band known as The 1975. I went to see them in live performance, purchased tickets, met Matty, and in a bizarre manner he is been influential to me simply due to his lack of care.”
The pair did not formally verify a relationship, however hypothesis was mounting that they had been collectively. It was reported that Halsey’s “Room 93” EP was titled after a resort room they as soon as shared. “If you suppose he is the primary red-wine-drinking, pretty-boy rocker in skinny denims I’ve been related to, you are out of your f*cking thoughts,” they instructed Billboard. Fans additionally speculated that one of many singer’s greatest hits, “Colors” – which hails from their 2015 album “Badlands” – can also be about The 1975 frontman.
Whilst the star by no means revealed who the track was referring to, she did clarify on SiriusXM’s present “HitBound” in 2016 that the track is about “being in a relationship with somebody and watching the vibrancy slowly begin to leak out of them…Whether they’re falling sufferer to medicine or falling sufferer to work or any form of damaging behaviour that is form of taking them away from the intense and energetic individual that they was.”
Healy appeared to reference the affect his drug habit had on his relationship in his 2016 monitor, “Paris”. He sings: “I stated ‘I’m executed, babe. I’m out of the scene’/But I used to be selecting up on Bethnal Green/She stated I’ve been romanticising heroin.” He beforehand defined to Rock Ur Life that the track is about how he’d “love to return to that place the place we had been” in his relationship. “Paris represents the place the place it feels good and sadly, we have by no means obtained there.” TikTokers have additionally speculated that one other monitor, “She’s American”, from the identical album, can also be about his relationship with Halsey.