Matty Healy Deactivates Twitter After He's Accused of Using George Floyd Tweet to Promote His Music
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billboard.comThe 1975's Matty Healy came under fire on Thursday (May 28) for a tweet about George Floyd, a 46-year-old black man who died following brutality from Minnesota police on Monday. “If you truly believe that ‘ALL LIVES MATTER’ you need to stop facilitating the end of black ones,” Healy tweeted along with a link to the band's song “Love It If We Made It,” which features lyrics “We’re fucking 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.” The frontman then faced heavy backlash from critics who accused the singer of using the tragedy to promote the 1975's new album, Notes on a Conditional Form, which
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