, 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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