Taylor Swift dropped a new album on Friday, but some people don’t like the lyrics to her new song, "I Hate It Here." In the track off of "The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology," a deluxe version of her new album, Swift sings about discontent and the way our recollections are distorted by nostalgia. In it, she says she wants to return to an era that ended more than a century before her career began. "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," Swift sings in the song. The Civil War began in 1861, more than 30 years after the decade Swift references in the song. Slavery was still active in the U.S. during this time. "Everyone would look down 'cause it wasn't fun now seems like it was never even fun back then / Nostalgia is a mind's trick if I'd been there, I'd hate it," she sings. "It was freezing in the palace." Fans on X reacted to “I Hate It Here.” “y’all .. there are so many wrong things about this," one user wrote, while posting a screenshot of the song's lyrics from Genius. "'I'd say the 1830s but without all the racists' now Taylor …" another wrote.
