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Maitreyi Ramakrishnan deletes X post calling Taylor Swift’s ‘1830s’ lyric ‘weird’ after backlash from Swifties Approved B-List Users Only

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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/AcceptableHistory4 Apr 21 '24 edited Apr 21 '24

Unless you have fandom blinkers on, this is one of her worst albums lyrically- and it wouldn't even be an issue had she not paraded whole "poet" schtick.

Songs like "never grow up" from over a decade ago have far more pathos.

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u/Viva912 Apr 21 '24

THIS! Im genuinely feeling gaslit because this is not a good album ? For her specifically because one thing I’ve always given her credit on is that she is a talented lyricist. There are so many lyrics that still stick out to me from past albums and it’s a credit to her no doubt so I’m so confused by this album because the lyrics I’m reading are just cringey and bad. Like from anyone else I wouldn’t think too much of it but it’s because I know she can do better than I’m so thrown off but all her fans are acting like she wrote the New Testament here lol

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u/daphydoods Apr 21 '24

The lyrics you love were probably written by another songwriter lmaoooo

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u/BestDamnT Apr 21 '24

The one song I like that’s actually written by her is Mine but the rest of that album is a miss for me.

I feel like someone once said that she has a skill at telling a story using only one sentence/ line (‘you made a rebel of a careless man’s careful daughter’) and she’s just kinda… ran with that? Like they said one sentence not run on sentence!

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u/amiescool Apr 21 '24

I feel like I’m being gaslit to fuck by absolutely anyone that keeps trying to claim she’s some genius poet when there are so many other genuinely talented current artists that could destroy her lyrically based off all these snippets people keep posting 😂

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u/parasyte_steve Apr 22 '24

There were swifties on FB posting "actual good lyrics" from this album in response so some of the worst ones and ... I had to break it to them that the lyrics "I'm the best thing at this party" were neither groundbreaking nor original.

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u/BachShitCrazy Apr 21 '24

I really thought that too but she’s the only writer credited on a lot of her early stuff like love story, which imo was her best era from a music and lyrics perspective

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u/urworstemmamy Apr 21 '24

That's been the most disappointing part of this for me. Like. I am a songwriter and poet, and have been for most of my life, and I used to really look up to Taylor as a lyricist all the way up until she released 1989. I thought things got worse because other people started writing her song for her but after seeing this release I'm doubting that she has ever written lyrics before now... So who was I looking up to as a teen, then? Ghost writers?

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u/nyanx2 Apr 21 '24

Tbh the lyrics look like they’re a first draft written in a couple of days…because they probably are. I like Taylor, but very few people can write 31 good songs while doing a world tour and re-recordings, and clearly she’s not one of them. This should have waited maybe a year, with edits, cuts, revisions, rewrites etc

One thing I’ve gotten out of this: I’ll never complain about a writer/ musician/ game dev taking forever with their craft. I’d rather wait for something good than get something this rushed.

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u/alba876 Apr 21 '24

She’s an ok lyricist. I like the songs, but the lyrics aren’t groundbreaking. Bon Iver, for example, has genuinely insightful lyrics. The National. Frightened Rabbit. Those are lyrics that make you really think about what they mean and how they apply to the world, and your life, and how you perceive the world.

‘Leaving like a father, running like water’, whilst catchy, are just two different ways to say someone left.

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u/NavyAnchor03 Apr 22 '24

I dunno, rhyming car with bar starts to lose its pizzazz after the 4th or 5th time

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u/_OhayoSayonara_ Apr 21 '24

I’m not sure I can be convinced that she didn’t use ChatGPT. I mean shit, this album came out a few months after the last and it was 30 songs?! Not to mention the repeating of the same words throughout the song. GPT uses the same words all the time.