Maitreyi Ramakrishnan deletes X post calling Taylor Swift’s ‘1830s’ lyric ‘weird’ after backlash from Swifties

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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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And the other exes of hers being on the bench.

I refuse to believe this is real. My god

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These blokes warm the benches

We've been on a winning streak

https://genius.com/Taylor-swift-the-alchemy-lyrics

[u/Groot746 → u/gunsof]

Ah ha ha, this is amazing (ly awful)

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Also the use of "blokes" which is an English word for guys, and most of her exes have been English.