Internet blasts Taylor Swift over lyric about wanting to live in ‘the 1830s’ on TTPD’s ‘I Hate It Here’
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: Pop sensation Taylor Swift dropped 'The Tortured Poet's Department' on Friday, April 19 and the album's already causing some controversy.
Swift is facing backlash after saying she wanted to live in the 1830s “but without all the racists” on her new album, 'The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology.'
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Taylor Swift wants to live in the 1830s
On the track 'I Hate It Here,' the 14-time Grammy winner sang about how she and her friends were discontent and unhappy with living in this current era.
“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,” she sang.
Not only this but the singer who is enjoying her romance with Travis Kelce, seemingly took another jab at Kim Kardashian, whom she’s been feuding with since 2016.
In the song 'thanK you aIMee,' the billionaire pop star sang about a “bronze, spray-tanned” bully who her mom “wish[es] were dead."
She croons, "All that time you were throwin’ punches, I was buildin’ somethin’ / And I can’t forgive the way you made me feel."
"Screamed ‘F**k you, Aimee’ to the night sky, as the blood was gushin’ / But I can’t forget the way you made me heal," she says.
Internet reacts to Taylor Swift's wish to live in 1830's
Social media users who trolled Swift for her opinion were quick to point out that slavery was still legalized in America in the 1830s.
A user wrote on X, "There is no way Taylor Swift said she’d like to live in an era where Chattel Slavery was the law of the land and say ‘but without the racists.’ Like it was some casual microaggressions or something. Is this what we’re doing??”
There is no way Taylor Swift said she’d like to live in an era where Chattel Slavery was the law of the land and say “but without the racists”. Like it was some casual microaggressions or something. Is this what we’re doing??
— she better be coming… (@CannyZanny) April 19, 2024
Another user wrote, "I mention Taylor Swift once for a joke and now I am getting news about her, and I gotta say: pretty astonishing to stipulate that she wants to live in the 1830s, ‘except without the racists,’ and not mention slavery, so slavery still exists but everyone’s chill about it."
I mention Taylor Swift once for a joke and now I'm getting news about her, and I gotta say: pretty astonishing to stipulate that she wants to live in the 1830s, "except without the racists," and not mention slavery, so slavery still exists but everyone's chill about it
— ★ (@corpseinorbit) April 19, 2024
A Facebook user said, "Funny, I was wishing she lived there also." A user said, "How dare she say that!" A user wrote, "the dumbest thing."
A user said, "Has anyone traced her American roots back to 1830 to see what her family were doing during that time period. I'm curious."
A user wrote, "I'm so sick of hearing about this woman. She is so overrated it makes no sense lol so many can sing better and more entertaining even in this pitiful era of muSIc."
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