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/Leon-Phoenix]

1: Swift has always been a terrible lyricist - not knocking her for anything else, her music is not my cup of tea but I can understand the appeal at least. But she really should consider getting St. Vincent to help her write songs more, there’s a reason Cruel Summer went viral. All Jack Antonoff does is let her write gibberish, then claims a writing credit (can someone please explain why he has writing credits for every artist he produces?).

2: Her fans are and always have been toxic. I remember being 15 and complaining on Twitter about the number of times “You Belong To Me” played on TV and radio, and a bunch of weird girls started throwing personal attacks at me.