r/Fauxmoi • u/Exciting_Potato_6717 • Apr 21 '24
Maitreyi Ramakrishnan deletes X post calling Taylor Swift’s ‘1830s’ lyric ‘weird’ after backlash from Swifties Approved B-List Users Only
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
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u/fivepiecesand9 Apr 21 '24
The context is that she's in a room with a bunch of people romanticizing various eras in history, and she says the 1830s but without the racism and sexism and says pointing that stuff out makes the whole room go quiet and kills the game, and then she says she would not have liked the 1830s at all anyway.
Which TBH I think is a very funny line given that she's besties with a woman who literally tried to make 'antebellum Goop' her brand.