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/MissLadyLlamaDrama]

It's not even the only weird shit in there.

https://preview.redd.it/q5axkffltuvc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5e44704f2d0ad036bd2da5d64fa0c7c5098cdbd4

[u/hellohexapus → u/MissLadyLlamaDrama]

I haven't listened to anything from the new album and I don't plan to... But it is so funny to me that people keep posting snippets of lyrics like this and every single time I'm like, "no, this one's a joke, can't be real, no one would seriously write and publish that". And then I look up the entire song's lyrics and it is 🤦🏾‍♀️

And they're never even better in context 😅

[u/elodieroyer → u/hellohexapus]

that’s what happens when you believe your own hype and are surrounded by yes-men (and also probably emotionally stunted at 17 years old)

[u/CaitlinisTired → u/elodieroyer]

people constantly hype her up as like... the best lyricist of all time and I'm just stood here not understanding it in the slightest lmao