Rolling Stone staff writer Larisha Paul wrote about Healey’s public apology to Ice Spice.

“Self-awareness has long rested at the center of the 1975’s public perception, helmed almost solely by Healy. Their music is his search to be sincere while keeping up with a bit. It’s his way of providing social commentary on the digital age and societal shifts. So it makes sense that even his apology to someone else would also be about him,” Paul wrote for the news outlet.

“He isn’t sorry that he participated in racially-motivated and body-shaming conversations about a successful woman 11 years younger than him — he’s sorry that it made him look bad, pulling back the curtain on the type of missteps his fans are used to forgiving.”

Ice Spice hasn’t reacted to any of Healey’s comments.

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