Singer Rina Sawayama Criticizes Racist Remarks By The 1975’s Matty Healy At Glastonbury: ‘I’ve Had Enough!’

During Rina Sawayama‘s Glastonbury performance last weekend, she introduced her song “STFU!” by calling out Matthew Healy of The 1975. “Tonight, this goes out to a white man that watches Ghetto Gaggers and mocks Asian people on a podcast,” Sawayama said. “He also owns my masters. I’ve had enough!”

Healy has recently come under fire for a guest appearance on The Adam Friedland Show in February in which he revealed that he liked to watch pornography where black women are degraded by white men and, during a discussion about the rapper Ice Spice, laughed as the hosts Adam Friedland and Nick Mullen made fun of Chinese, Japanese and Hawaiian accents. The three also made jokes about women in the podcast and discussed how the LGBTQ community reacts to queerbaiting.

ESEA Music, a UK-based community of East and Southeast Asian people working in music, criticized Healy’s “flagrant racism and complicity in laughing along at harmful Asian tropes.”

Due to the controversy, Healy was removed from the board of directors of Dirty Hit Limited, the company behind Dirty Hit, a record label that has signed artists like Sawayama and The 1975.

Healy later apologized to Ice Spice at a 1975 concert in New Zealand, saying that he “can take it too far sometimes in front of too many people.” But he avoided directly discussing the other controversial segments in the podcast, only mentioning them by saying his “joking got misconstrued.”

The episode of The Adam Friedland Show with Healy has been removed from Apple and Spotify but is still available on YouTube.