While the fan’s enthusiastic and repeated “yes” and the crowd’s shrieks of joy confirmed that this was, indeed, an opportunity of a lifetime, fans have been divided on the incident. Some are commending Healy for checking his bases and asking for her ID; others see this behavior as making a tasteless joke about his own reputation for creepyish behavior.

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First of all, Healy has a long history of kissing women at concerts that dates back as early as 2014. Fans voiced their concern when the tradition made a resurgence on this tour’s Las Vegas show on November 25, where Healy kissed a different women onstage during an interlude in the song “Robbers.” Amid a low-level backlash, she clarified a few details about the kiss, which she herself proposed with a sign on her phone that read, “So we making out?” She emphasized that the exchange was completely consensual: “HE ASKED before he kissed me!,” she explained on Twitter. “Also I’m a grown age of 24,” she added.

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While these women have doubled down on the consensual nature of their respective kisses, people’s concern isn’t necessarily unfounded, as Healy doesn’t have the cleanest track record when it comes to supporting women and their boundaries. In 2016, a female music journalist came forward about the frontman sexually harassing her during an interview, telling her he was “sex-addicted and would love to meet her after the show.” In 2018, the 33-year-old musician issued an apology after telling The Fader that “misogyny doesn’t happen in rock and roll anymore.” And just last year, a fan spoke out about the 1975’s music video director Adam Powell, accusing him of being manipulative and predatory towards the band’s young fans. According to Tone Deaf, the 1975 has still not addressed the accusations.

Given all of this, I can only begin to speculate what Healy’s Instagram photo of him, Phoebe Bridgers, and Bo Burnham—in which Healy and Bridgers are kissing—could possibly mean. Simply captioned “Gay Poets Society,” my best guess is that this is Healy’s clever way of announcing the special guests on the band’s 2023 “Being Funny in a Foreign Language” tour. Here’s to hoping Bridgers greenlit that peck beforehand.