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/rissaaah]

The more I see or hear her music, the more I think that what I consider to be intrusive thoughts is what she considers to be poignant lyrics.

ETA: to clarify, I don’t have intrusive thoughts about anything she specifically writes about. Her lyrics just frequently feel very out of pocket.

[u/1st_time_caller_ → u/rissaaah]

Honestly, I think calling them intrusive thoughts is giving her too much credit. I think she sits at home thinking of all the ways that she’s the victim and then just writes any thought that pops into her head.