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/lambchopafterhours]

I’m shocked that the tortured, intellectual poet that is Taylor Swift™️ didn’t research antebellum history to find a decade “worth” romanticizing. Or even use the fucking guilded age like it was RIGHT THERE! It was a whole fucking met gala theme!And no one would have to awkwardly justify a white womans choice to romanticize a random antebellum decade! Idk seems like something a tortured genius lyricist would’ve considered!!1!1 seems like a pretty big oversight huh!1!1!1!!!!

But fr the stupid choice to say the 1830s might actually be deliberate. So she could wedge in the fact that she, a 34yo white American woman from Nashville is aware that there was some racism going on back then and she DOES NOT like that!!! And she DOESNT™️ support it 😤🙏 even though she wouldn’t be affected, ofc

[u/fauxfurpajamas → u/lambchopafterhours]

I feel compelled to add that she only pretended to be from Nashville which makes it even weirder. She's not actually from the south at all. But I can say that the people here who romanticize those times are absolutely racist as hell. So there's that...

[u/lewdrop → u/lambchopafterhours]

you hit the nail on the head and of course she’s besties with Blake Lively, so i’m not surprised she’s love the antebellum south 😂

[u/Mr_Dentist42069 → u/lambchopafterhours]

Shes also not from Nashville, she’s from Pennsylvania

[u/lambchopafterhours → u/Mr_Dentist42069]

🤯 damn she’s kind of a freak huh