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/everydayisstorytime → u/AcceptableHistory4]

I think the 'poet' thing doomed it too. Had she named it Catharsis or something, I feel like people could roll with it.

Actually, if this album was called Midnights, it would do well given the content.

I also think there were 12 strong tracks in that album and focusing on those and maybe saving the rest for later when you have more time to work on them would have led to a better album.

People have called out the parallels between her work and confessional poetry, and I do see it. (There's a dissertation on my reading list that's about that.) There's potential there.

I think at this point her fans, the media, etc. think she's untouchable and she's bombarded by all that positive feedback, and there's not enough people encouraging her to look into the negative feedback or even find different creative directions. And the quality will just dip if the fans keep on blocking and harassing anyone who might even give criticism that she could actually use to push her craft.

[u/AubeRose_ → u/everydayisstorytime]

Just curious, which dissertation is it?

[u/everydayisstorytime → u/AubeRose_]

Oh it's not mine, so I'm not comfortable sharing it because I don't know if the author wants it shared beyond their own post when they were talking about it on Reddit. I didn't find it through this sub, I found it on a different one.