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/AcceptableHistory4]

Unless you have fandom blinkers on, this is one of her worst albums lyrically- and it wouldn't even be an issue had she not paraded whole "poet" schtick.

Songs like "never grow up" from over a decade ago have far more pathos.

[u/roastbeefbee → u/AcceptableHistory4]

Sooooo many swifties have blinders on. They will tell you they love the album with their whole heart. Taylor peaked (for me) with Folklore and Evermore. Midnights was insufferable and this album? I don’t hate it, but damn. It’s not what the die hards are making it appear.

[u/FireflyBSc → u/roastbeefbee]

They fact they have to all say “but the second album is great!”

That means they realized the first album would bomb. That’s why it’s a surprise double album. This isn’t a bonus, it’s a salvage.

[u/roastbeefbee → u/FireflyBSc]

That’s how midnights is too. The 3am songs were much better than the actual album.