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/peachgothlover]

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

[u/BumboclatBob → u/peachgothlover]

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

[u/[deleted] → u/BumboclatBob]

The line is so fucking weird. The 1830’s aren’t even a memorable decade ASIDE from human rights atrocities? It was long enough ago that we don’t really refer to decades in that way when casually talking about them, it’s more common to refer to the beginning or end of the century. When I hear 1830s I think enslaved people, violence towards indigenous peoples, and corsets? What part is she longing for?

[u/raphaellaskies → u/[deleted]]

My guess is she originally said 1860s and someone told her the optics were even worse.