This April 19, Taylor Swift officially released The Tortured Poets Department, her latest and long-awaited album: one of her muses is an actress who shone in the ’20s but who had a tough personal history, continually besieged by the press.
“The Tortured Poets Department” is trending this April 19, since it is the new work of Taylor Swift, one of the most important international artists of the moment.
This is the teaser that the singer published on her Instagram account @tayloswift.
As for the content that was already known, it has “encrypted” messages (which, quickly, Swifties around the globe are already unraveling), and it is already said that the work contains indirect against some of his former partners, such as Joe Alwyn y Matty Healy.
The truth is that the album appears Clara Bow as title of one of the themes. It is the name of a cinema diva, very popular in the ’20s in whose life the singer found several similarities with her own.
Who was Clara Bow, the “it girl” who inspired Taylor Swift
Among the references to who Clara Bow was, many would cite that she was a icon of the ’20s but, behind that public life, was hidden a difficult life, which began from his childhood.
Clara Bow was born on July 29, 1905 within a family with serious underlying problems: his mother suffered from epilepsy and was a prostitute. As for his father, an absent figure who was not much better in his presence: it is said that he abused the actress.
But Clara Bow had the desire to work as an actress, what he achieved at a very young age: before turning 20 he had already starred in “Down to the Sea”, his first silent film. In 1925 it would be consecrated with “Schoolgirl days”, with which he became a star.
Clara Bow did not adhere to the guidelines that women “of her time” should follow: she wore short skirts, drank alcohol, smoked, drove a car and did not wear a corset. For all this, some of her considered her a “scandalous” woman. And the press treated her harshly.
Regarding her love life, she was the girlfriend of actor Gilbert Roland while dating director Victor Fleming. In addition, it is said that she dated stars of those years, such as Béla Lugosi, Gary Cooper, John Wayne or John Gilbert.
She married actor Rex Bell, with whom She had two children. After a suicide attempt (she was also addicted to alcohol) diagnosed with schizophrenia, which is why he underwent electroshock treatments. He died at age 60 from a heart attack.
How Taylor Swift and Clara Bow are alike
As can be seen listening to the songs of The Tortured Poets Department, Taylor Swift Learn the story of Clara Bow. Although it is not exactly clear, it may have to do with the press’s treatment of these two artists.
Without going any further, in the song Who’s afraid of little old me?the singer points against the media, where she sentences how they have tried ruin your image on multiple occasions.
Publicly, Taylor Swift referred on multiple occasions to the fact that she felt a lack of recognition of her achievements, despite being a strong and independent woman several years ago.
Perhaps, you feel, in this sense, that your life has similarities with that of Clara Bow and taking her as a muse is a way of vindicating her… and of vindicating yourself.
Subscribe to the For You newsletter
If you are interested in receiving the Para Ti newsletter every week in your email with the latest trends and everything that interests you, complete the following information:
More information at parati.com.ar
THEMES
