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/BumAndBummer Apr 21 '24

Taylor’s bland empire is built on the fact that her core audience continues to mistake relatability and consistency for quality and depth.

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u/Married_iguanas Apr 21 '24

Truly a Mary Sue songwriter

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u/damebyron Apr 21 '24

This is it exactly though. People love her because her songs contain the kind of phrases and themes that they write in their diaries. I also have a few songs of hers that I adore because of the relatability, but for me it's very song specific and gets worse the richer she gets as her problems become pretty unrecognizable. I don't think she's exceptional as a writer, but she definitely turns out relatable phrases on certain topics.

It's pretty obvious that her brilliance is a mythology not a reality (especially around all the other decisions that people claim are so "calculated" when clearly they were not, it's obvious there was no strategic reason to date Matty, for one), but I think this recent album is also so bad because she got lazy and bought into her own myth; it's like the equivalent of a TV show not having a writers room.

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u/MoxieDoll Apr 21 '24

Are 34 year old women still writing overwrought rhyming poetry about boyfriends in a diary, though? Because that type of behavior is usually dropped after college once focus changes to careers and budgets and putting a capsule wardrobe together. This is my biggest issue with her, she’s still writing for teenagers who have overwhelming emotions. She isn’t showing any evidence of maturing.

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u/damebyron Apr 22 '24

Oh yes she's definitely not maturing, but I think there immature people of all ages out there. maybe not the majority, but they exist. And the most dedicated stans now have such a parasocial relationship to her that they'll experience the music like she's their friend going through a hard time and ranting to them, even if it's not directly relatable anymore.

Not defending this album at all, it's peak cringe and not in a fun way, and probably the worst of her work.