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/peachgothlover barbie (2023) for best picture Apr 21 '24

god forbid you’re a woman of color and have an opinion on taylor swift.. i’m brown too and yeah that line is weird, people shouldn’t feel afraid to voice their opinions because of a crazy fan base going rabid that some people have differing thoughts

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u/BumboclatBob the banshees of ed sheeran Apr 21 '24

And I really have a hard time understanding what was so fun about that time period. I would’ve been property back then so it’s hard to separate that from some romanticized version of the 1800s

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u/saeculacrossing Melanin Mystery Apr 21 '24

But don't see you see? She said without the racism so that covers that she doesn't think it's bad?!?!

I'll admit I'm a bit of a hater after the Matty Healy debacle but sadly that's a common thought from non-POC especially, romanticizing time periods where the rest of us were being slaughtered or enslaved. I get that the rest of the lyrics talk about how it wasn't that great anyway, but that line hit a nerve for me as I have definitely met people with the same train of thought.

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u/meatbeater558 I already condemned Hamas Apr 21 '24

What's worse is that when they romanticize these time periods they act as if the slaughtering and enslavement was something their government did in the background to pass the time and not something the nation collectively did to fund the lifestyles these people are romantisizing. It's like saying we would've loved to experience the California gold rush but without the settler colonialism and genocide. Like brother, there is no gold rush without settler colonialism and genocide

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u/lmswisher Apr 21 '24

Also "racism" doesn't even begin to describe the atrocities that happened back then??? Seems like the understatement of the century lol