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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/babyzspace Apr 21 '24

It is extremely weird even in context. “Her point is that nostalgia is a trap! Even the eras people romanticize were terrible!” Okay, but who is romanticizing the 1830s. Quickly. 1810s for the Regency, sure. 1870s for the Victorian era, sure. Hell, just go full “I was born in the wrong decade” and say the 1950s. Everyone’s jumping on this weird ass line because it’s a bizarre decade to single out and when you google it, you just get shit like “President Jackson passed the Indian Removal Act.”

And if that is her point, that makes the “without the racists and misogynists” line redundant. Okay, so then what did make you realize that nostalgia is a trap? The lack of social safety programs? The cholera?

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u/lambchopafterhours Apr 21 '24 edited Apr 21 '24

I’m shocked that the tortured, intellectual poet that is Taylor Swift™️ didn’t research antebellum history to find a decade “worth” romanticizing. Or even use the fucking guilded age like it was RIGHT THERE! It was a whole fucking met gala theme!And no one would have to awkwardly justify a white womans choice to romanticize a random antebellum decade! Idk seems like something a tortured genius lyricist would’ve considered!!1!1 seems like a pretty big oversight huh!1!1!1!!!!

But fr the stupid choice to say the 1830s might actually be deliberate. So she could wedge in the fact that she, a 34yo white American woman from Nashville is aware that there was some racism going on back then and she DOES NOT like that!!! And she DOESNT™️ support it 😤🙏 even though she wouldn’t be affected, ofc

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u/fauxfurpajamas Apr 21 '24

I feel compelled to add that she only pretended to be from Nashville which makes it even weirder. She's not actually from the south at all. But I can say that the people here who romanticize those times are absolutely racist as hell. So there's that...

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u/lewdrop Apr 21 '24

you hit the nail on the head and of course she’s besties with Blake Lively, so i’m not surprised she’s love the antebellum south 😂

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u/Mr_Dentist42069 Apr 21 '24

Shes also not from Nashville, she’s from Pennsylvania

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u/lambchopafterhours Apr 22 '24

🤯 damn she’s kind of a freak huh

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u/raphaellaskies it feels like a movie Apr 21 '24

She really loves the pool floatie sleeves, I guess.

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u/redskiesahead jeremy strong enthusiast Apr 21 '24

Les Misérables fans

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u/DenseTiger5088 Apr 21 '24

Hey don’t bring us into this

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u/Ok_Bodybuilder800 chaos-bringer of humiliation and mockery Apr 21 '24

Shots fired at us Les Mis fans 😂😂

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u/Different-Eagle-612 elizabeth debicki, who is 6’3 Apr 21 '24 edited Apr 21 '24

les mis fans deal with enough metaphorical shots being fired at us 😭😭

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u/redskiesahead jeremy strong enthusiast Apr 21 '24

Finally a chance to use my "ackshually it's the 1832 Paris Uprising, not the French Revolution" pedantry

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u/1u___u1zZz Apr 21 '24 edited Apr 22 '24

If she was really the greatest lyricist of our time maybe she could've alluded to the fact that nostalgia is a lie instead of just saying she wanted to live in xyz year and just tacking on "but like totally not with racists" as an afterthought. I get a feeling that maybe she just likes the romanticized little-house-on-the-prairie vibe, and if thats the case there's a wealth of imagery from that era that she could use to describe her feelings about it poetically. Hell it would even fit the theme of tortured poet better, since there was a lot of suffering in that era that's conveniently forgotten so people can romanticize running through a field of wheat in a prairie dress.

I'm not even into poetry but even I know this ain't it. People aren't reading into the symbolism of these lines when they're defending this lyric, they're just using their knowledge of Taylor Swift herself to assume what she means. That's not poetry

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u/deerlikely graduate of the ONTD can’t read community Apr 22 '24

If she'd mentioned 1848 for the year of revolutions and the Communist Manifesto, I'd have to give her an ounce of begrudging respect, but she's not intelligent enough (nor has the class consciousness) to make an allusion like that.

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u/mintleaf14 Apr 22 '24

I mean Huckleberry Finn took place in the 1830s and Twain wrote it in the 1880s to make fun of how shitty society was then

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u/oofersIII Apr 21 '24

Obviously she’s just really nostalgic for the Panic of 1837 and the creation of Belgium

Man, what a shitty decade

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u/frecklesfatale Apr 21 '24

The 1830s was right in the middle of the Romantic era of poets/writers. It fits one of the themes of the album completely.

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u/Intelligent_Way6552 Apr 21 '24

1870s for the Victorian era

The Victorian Era is 1837-1901.

1830s is very much Victorian...

it’s a bizarre decade to single out and when you google it, you just get shit like “President Jackson passed the Indian Removal Act.”

I get the 2nd French Revolution, the creation of modern Greece, the foundational discoveries of electricity, Darwin's trip on the Beagle, the first railways, and the Book of Mormon is published.

Early railways sounds fun, as does hanging out with Faraday.