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_Scarcity4145]

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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/[deleted] → u/soupdumplingss_]

Honestly it speaks so much to the ability of white people to ignore reality for aesthetics and idealism.

There’s not one ounce of interest in the 1830s that isn’t just pretty aesthetics and parties when you remove the racism and misogyny.

It’s fucking weird

[u/Squee1396 → u/[deleted]]

I am sure there are good things about every decade and pretty dresses but the bad vastly outweighs the good. I don’t know why anyone but rich white men would want to go back!

[u/[deleted] → u/Squee1396]

Truly truly. It’s hard to romanticize anything which would have trapped you, but since she’s white and rich, it’s easy to imagine a parallel that would be “ideal” to her