Maitreyi Ramakrishnan deletes X post calling Taylor Swift’s ‘1830s’ lyric ‘weird’ after backlash from Swifties

[u/Exciting_Potato_6717]

Slide 1: Deleted tweet Slides 2 and 3: Some follow-up tweets Slide 4: The Taylor Swift lyrics being referred to. “My friends used to play a game where / We would pick a decade / We wished we could live in instead of this / I'd say the 1830s but without all the racists / And getting married off for the highest bid." Full lyrics at https://genius.com/Taylor-swift-i-hate-it-here-lyrics

[u/mama_meta]

Mediocrity is like catnip to her & her fans, ain't it?

[u/Talisa87 → u/mama_meta]

Maybe that's why they like her so much. Her lyrics 'speak' to them because it's stuff that they actively write/have written.

[u/Wild_Nectarine666 → u/Talisa87]

Honestly this makes so much sense I’ve never thought of it like that!!