Breaking News: Does Swift Deserve All The Critics And Hate She’s Getting This Days

Taylor Swift has been brutally trolled online for her lyric about wanting to go back to ‘the 1830s, but without all the racists.’

The 34-year-old released her hotly anticipated new album The Tortured Poets Department on Friday, to a ravenous response from her devoted fans.

But she was also mocked for one line from the album’s track, I Hate It Here, which is about feeling a sense of ennui in the present 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 – inspiring widespread derision.

One user of X, formerly Twitter, argued that it was ‘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 know I can’t stfu abt Taylor Swift but of all time periods WHY THE 1830s???’ another wrote. ‘The most notable event from the time period is the trail of tears like I cannot wrap my head around it? Is this another one of her dumbass codes?’

‘She said ‘without all the racism’.. like it was rain or something lmfaoooo,’ one marveled, to which another responded incredulously: ‘like???? you don’t have the 1830’s without the racism lmao it’s integral’.

Still another X user wrote: ‘To a certain extent I get it like things were extremely simple but 1830’s AMERICA WHERE SLAVERY WAS STILL VERY LEGAL WHATS GREAT ABOUT THAT???? That worries me as a black listener and that’s why I stepped away.’