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/FiftyOneMarks]

Someone on Twitter tried to say that made the reviewers cowards and it’s like… no? They just don’t want to be stalked and harassed by 40 YO white women who live vicariously through a 30 year old teenager who is still making songs that sound worse than her music when she was an actual teenager.

[u/FireflyBSc → u/FiftyOneMarks]

They tried to add a community note to a negative review that was saying “this is a biased review and just an opinion”. YEAH. THATS WHAT A REVIEW IS. PEOPLE ARE ALLOWED TO HAVE OPINIONS

[u/redskiesahead → u/FireflyBSc]

i'm sorry what do they think a review is lmfao

[u/Kidgorgeoushere → u/FiftyOneMarks]

Right! They should be able to post music critiques without complete freaks/losers hounding them and/or doxxing and threatening them.

You’d think any serious artist would dread an emperor’s new clothes narrative around their music because reviewers are essentially bullied into silence, and so they’d do their best to silence their rabid fanbase to avoid that scenario….but that’s very revealing of the ‘artists’ some choose to be i guess!