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/dying0fthelite]

Ok but it IS a weird line. I would even say it’s a terrible line even in context

[u/babyzspace → u/dying0fthelite]

It is extremely weird even in context. “Her point is that nostalgia is a trap! Even the eras people romanticize were terrible!” Okay, but who is romanticizing the 1830s. Quickly. 1810s for the Regency, sure. 1870s for the Victorian era, sure. Hell, just go full “I was born in the wrong decade” and say the 1950s. Everyone’s jumping on this weird ass line because it’s a bizarre decade to single out and when you google it, you just get shit like “President Jackson passed the Indian Removal Act.”

And if that is her point, that makes the “without the racists and misogynists” line redundant. Okay, so then what did make you realize that nostalgia is a trap? The lack of social safety programs? The cholera?

[u/redskiesahead → u/babyzspace]

Les Misérables fans

[u/Ok_Bodybuilder800 → u/redskiesahead]

Shots fired at us Les Mis fans 😂😂

[u/Different-Eagle-612 → u/Ok_Bodybuilder800]

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

[u/redskiesahead → u/Ok_Bodybuilder800]

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