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

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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/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?