Two years ago, Margot Robbie enchanted the world with her party-loving, drug-loving character in the film Babylon and she was explicitly inspired by one of Hollywood’s legends, none other than actress Clara Bow. But in 2024, the new wave of research into who Clara Bow is has nothing to do with Seventh Art or birthday dates, but rather with Swifties discovering that Clara Bow is one of the tracks on Taylor Swift‘s new album, The Tortured Poets Department.

It makes sense! Clara Bow was the first “it girl” and no one is more “it” today than Taylor Swift.

Upon receiving her fourth Grammy for Best Album of the Year, breaking records, and being the first woman to join the select group of now four artists who have achieved the same feat, Taylor informed her fans that she would have a new album on April 19th and that I was going to post about him on social media. Genie.

The post, which appears to be a photo of the back of a physical album, features the tracklist and reveals that Post Malone participates in Fortnight and Florence + the Machine is on the track Florida!!!. Yes, Taylor Swift, who started in the country, went to pop and is increasingly indie rock. Remembering that in the last albums, she had participated from The National, Bon Iver, Phoebe Bridges, Lana Del Rey, and Olivia Rodrigo, among others.

The Tortured Poets Department will have 16 tracks, with the vinyl, CD, and cassette versions having the bonus track The Manuscript. As Swifties know, Taylor never fails to give hints about how and what she will tell about her personal life in her songs, so they went one by one looking for clues.

Do you know who won’t be at peace from April until who knows when? Yes, Taylor’s ex-boyfriend, actor Joe Alwyn, who had a WhatsApp group with his friends (actors Paul Mescal and Andrew Scott among them) with the same name as the album and who WITHOUT A DOUBT is the inspiration for the title song, as well as My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys, So Long, London, I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can) and perhaps The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived. It will be? For someone who spent six years with the most popular singer on the planet hiding and not showing up at any parties or shows, it’s the warning of “Out with Jake Gyllenhaal, in with Joe Alwyn.”

But… what about Clara Bow?

Well, according to fans, Taylor will possibly rewrite some of the sexist legends that marked the trajectory of the actress whose personal life – according to the view of the time – was permeated with parties, drugs, drinks, and boyfriends, being associated with debauchery. Clara stopped acting in 1933 after a ‘nervous breakdown’. According to Swifties, the singer’s connection with the actress would be people’s excessive curiosity about her personal life, judging her for having so many famous boyfriends. Others speculate that since Clara Bow was one of the stars of silent films, it is a metaphor for Taylor leaving her ‘silent era’ – the six years she stayed off the radar alongside Joe – behind, entering the current one, where she isn’t sorry for, care to explain or justify herself to anyone.

What doesn’t change? Taylor Swift‘s personal life is ALWAYS her artistic material, but more openly than any other. This authenticity of hers is unique, even if others criticize it. If you know who she’s talking about, it’s more interesting. And remember, Taylor doesn’t victimize herself. Never. That’s why she pleases so many generations of women.

Who else wants time to pass quickly until April?

Here, are the tracks from The Tortured Poets Department:

Side A
Fortnight (feat. Post Malone)
The Tortured Poets Department
My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys
Down Bad

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Side B
So Long, London
But Daddy I Love Him
Fresh Out the Slammer
Florida!!! (Florence + the Machine)

Side C
Guilty as Sin?
Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me?
I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can)
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Side D
I Can Do It With a Broken Heart
The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived
The Alchemy
Clara Bow
Bonus Track: The Manuscript

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