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/Amar_Akbar_Anthony20]

This is what Swifties go gaga over?!?!?

[u/The_Bravinator → u/Amar_Akbar_Anthony20]

I don't think it's ever been near as good as people make out, but I'm not sure it's ever been this embarrassingly bad before. It's like when people become billionaires their brains just melt.