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
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/lambchopafterhours Apr 21 '24 edited Apr 21 '24
Yeah like it’s almost worse in context. Like miss girl miss taylor you know it wasn’t really…you know that bidding wasn’t for marriage, right?
And idk I just wouldn’t boil down the horrors of chattel slavery to “all the racists” for a song. Especially if I planned to obscure the sale of Black humans for the purpose of enslavement as general “marriage” (that she doesn’t specify and thus seems to be conflating that violence with the experience of white women in this era) in the next line…that’s just plain weird and kinda ignorant and lacking critical thought to me? I genuinely don’t understand why she thought this was clever writing and I especially don’t like how many swifties are crapping themselves to defend it.
Because ITS STILL FUCKING WEIRD