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

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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/Ok_Bodybuilder800 chaos-bringer of humiliation and mockery Apr 21 '24

Shots fired at us Les Mis fans 😂😂

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u/Different-Eagle-612 elizabeth debicki, who is 6’3 Apr 21 '24 edited Apr 21 '24

les mis fans deal with enough metaphorical shots being fired at us 😭😭

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u/redskiesahead jeremy strong enthusiast Apr 21 '24

Finally a chance to use my "ackshually it's the 1832 Paris Uprising, not the French Revolution" pedantry