Taylor Swift’s New Album Includes the Song ‘Clara Bow,’ and Swifties Are Already Drawing Connections
glamour.com, fans spotted the name of silent film actor Clara Bow. After all, Taylor Swift loves Old Hollywood; it’s the aesthetic of the “Wildest Dreams” music video, and she references Liz Taylor and Richard Burton in the lyrics to “…Ready For It?”But why Clara Bow, specifically?
Here are a few possible connections between with and the late star’s career.Swift has spoken about how, , she was much more silent and private than she had been previously or has been since the breakup.
In fact, her upcoming song “But Daddy, I Love Him” is a line from The Little Mermaid, which, as some fans have pointed out, is about a girl who gives up her voice to be with her true love: from sound to silence. (, depending on whom you ask.) But farther down the track list is “Clara Bow,” someone who went from silence to sound.
Bow was a star of the Silent Film Era in the 1920s and, unlike many of her contemporaries, successfully transitioned into a career in the alkies in the ’30s.
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