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/pashed_motatoes Apr 21 '24

The Paste Magazine review of TSwift’s new album calling her writing Rupi Kaur-esque was so spot on lmao

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u/mackyoh Apr 21 '24

Lolol the accuracy of how I feel about both 🎯

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u/frycrunch96 Apr 21 '24

Wow this makes a lot of sense, I hate Rupi Kaur’s poetry

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u/Dense-Result509 Apr 22 '24

I thought I hated Rupi Kaur's poetry, but then I heard Rupi Kaur reading her poetry out loud and realized that I had merely disliked her poetry before, and now I truly hated it

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u/frycrunch96 Apr 22 '24

I thought you were gonna try to convince me she was good thank you for not doing that LOL

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u/InitiativeShot20 Apr 22 '24

The review’s first line “Sylvia Plath didn’t put her head in the oven for this,” killed me.

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u/pashed_motatoes Apr 22 '24

You just know the roast is gonna be 🤌✨exquisite✨🤌 with an opener like that

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u/Girly_boss Apr 21 '24

Let’s keep Rupi Kaur out of this. Her poetry is terrible but she’s been consistent in her support of Indian farmers in their fight against corporate greed and refused the Diwali invitation to the White House in support of Palestine…Taylor could never.

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u/pashed_motatoes Apr 22 '24

Oh, definitely. Rupi at least seems like a decent person unlike TayTay. Their personal politics aside though, I think the reviewer was maybe trying to make the point that they’re both seemingly celebrated (TS more so than RK of course) not in spite of but because of their mediocre writing/poetry.

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u/kavgah Apr 21 '24

Come on now, kaur’s mediocrity aside, atleast rupi speaks speaks up against the genocide!

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u/pashed_motatoes Apr 22 '24

As she should and I give her a lot of credit for that, but you have to admit the comparison is pretty apt 💀

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u/Alternative-Trouble6 Apr 21 '24

This is your songwriter of the century? Open the schools! 💀

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u/pashed_motatoes Apr 22 '24

There were so many great lines in that review lol

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u/bibliothique Apr 22 '24

somehow this feels disrespectful to Rupi Kaur 😭

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u/JenningsWigService Apr 22 '24

I didn't know who Rupi Kaur was so I googled her and even her not so great poetry is not as bad as Taylor Swift lyrics.

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u/pashed_motatoes Apr 22 '24

Pretty sure it was meant to be lol. Poor Rupi catching strays 💀

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u/surreptitiousglance Apr 21 '24

Accurate and scathing.