Swift is under fire for saying she wanted to live in the 1830s, but without 'all the racists,' on her new album.
Taylor Swift has divided music lovers with a lyric on her new album that says she would like to have lived in the 1830s.Swift, 34, released her new album, The Tortured Poets Department , on Friday, which featured the song 'I Hate It Here.'In the opening lines of the second verse, Swift sings about how she and her friends 'used to play a game where/We would pick a decade/We wished we could live in instead of this.
'It also shows how you don't understand how this s*** continues to days, how these systems have manifested in different ways over time.'She then used examples of the forced sterilization of black women over history, comparing it to the recent sterilization and forced abortions of migrant women in U.S. detention centers.
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