Clara Bow Expert Unpacks Taylor Swift’s ‘Profound’ Allegory
Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast / Getty While Swifties were determined to stay up till midnight to find out which of the 16 (or is it 31?!) songs on The Tortured Poets Department were about Joe Alwyn, historian David Stenn was focused on what the singer had to say about another star: Clara Bow. One lyric in particular left him speechless.
“‘Beauty is a beast that roars down on all fours,’” he remarks, “That’s poetry, that’s profound.”
The author and historian, who wrote the Clara Bow biography Runnin’ Wild in 2000, jumped on a midnight call to discuss his thoughts on the song as well as the parallels between Bow and Taylor Swift’s careers.
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