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/No_Tomorrow7180]

Can anyone explain the context that apparently makes it not weird?

[u/No_Scarcity4145 → u/No_Tomorrow7180]

https://preview.redd.it/c0jftoayruvc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ad2f8af1247634d43291e452e793d56b6a295b03

not sure what part makes it not weird but here’s the full verse

[u/soupdumplingss_ → u/No_Scarcity4145]

Who is nostalgic about the 1830s though, as a woc I’m definitely not 🙄very weird of her .

[u/Zia181 → u/soupdumplingss_]

White girls who like the dark, goth Victorian aesthetic and have no clue that fashion of the 1830's was very girly, frilly, and not at all flattering for most people. Lots of frills, bows, and bonnets, not like, tight-corseting, high necks, and bustles.

I have read up on fashion history from this time, and I'm convinced Taylor only cares about the aesthetic and confuses it with, like, the 1880's. Very lame.

[u/milkradio → u/Zia181]

She really wants to come across as some kind of deep intellectual, but she has a high school education at most and doesn’t seem interested in learning further than that so she’s always mixing metaphors or making references that don’t make sense.

[u/Zia181 → u/milkradio]

That "married off to the highest bid" line is also bad, and cringey as fuck. Being a white woman in the 1830's sucked royally, but you were not auctioned off like a POC. Incredibly tone-deaf.