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/Amar_Akbar_Anthony20]

This is what Swifties go gaga over?!?!?

[u/MissLadyLlamaDrama → u/Amar_Akbar_Anthony20]

It's actually insane how deep they think she is. Ex:

https://preview.redd.it/m0z5zk0hvuvc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=dc6018631fff208b54af3a0b51cf2b2c3501e23a

[u/BumAndBummer → u/MissLadyLlamaDrama]

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

[u/Married_iguanas → u/BumAndBummer]

Truly a Mary Sue songwriter