“Clara Bow” by taylor swift except it’s the Potter family.

"You look like Clara Bow in this light. Remarkable. All your life, did you know, you'd be picked like a rose?”

But it’s what every generation of the Potter’s have been told.

"You look like Stevie Nicks, In '75, the hair and lips. Crowd goes wild at her fingertips. Half moonshine, a full eclipse.”

But it’s the James Potter getting told he looks like his mother.

"You look like Taylor Swift, in this light. We're loving it. You've got edge, (s)he never did. The future's bright, dazzling."

Harry Potter getting compared to his father.

Clara Bow by Taylor Swift...big feelings

I Can Do It With A Broken Heart // Clara Bow

Only when your girlish glow, flickers just so, do they let you know: It's hell on earth to be heavenly. Them's the breaks, they don't come gently. Clara Bow - The Tortured Poets Department (2024)

btw clara bow had a nervous breakdown, got married, had her husband deny they were married for the sake of privacy, and never acted in films again after she made enough money to stay out of Hollywood.

"my life in Hollywood contained plenty of uproar. I'm sorry for a lot of it but not awfully sorry." - Clara Bow

The future’s bright, dazzling

promise to be dazzling.

You look like Stevie Nicks

in ‘75, the hair and lips

what's so clever about Clara Bow is that when she references her own name at the end, she's not talking about the present but the future, quoting the inevitable way people are going to one day talk about her, imagining it will only be in regards to the woma(e)n who surpass her. because there will be someone who surpasses her, eventually. that's the cycle of fame, isn't it? we're simultaneously captivated by the alluring trick of the past while looking for the next big thing. we compare current stars to the lights that shined before them, "you look like taylor swift." but we're also constantly waiting for someone new and greater to take the crown and captivate us anew, "you've got edge she never did." And half the song is about acknowledging that being revered is hell on earth for the people who are in it, because you're always trapped between what came before and what will come after. you're only safe insofar as you remain shiny. But the real beauty of the song is that it never succumbs to this dichotomy, but embraces it. It's Taylor acknowledging she wouldn't be who she is were it not for the women who came before her, who shared the same dreams, and recognizing her place in the chain of the women who will come after. The future's bright, dazzling.

I love you, it's ruining my life.

THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT || April 19th, 2024

OH MY GOD GUYS??!

AND FROM A CAR PARK OF ALL PLACES

you look like Clara Bow

you look like Stevie Nicks

you look like Taylor Swift

Track 16 on 'The Tortured Poets Department' is titled "Clara Bow"

Clara Bow was a silent film actress in the 1920s and the first It Girl. Bow came to personify the “roaring twenties” and is described as its leading sex symbol. The misery of having her private life made food for public consumption became too much for Clara who, in April, had a breakdown and was admitted to a Sanatorium.

this tracklist has me thinking so many thoughts you guys.

they broke up a fortnight into tour... the first show post joever was in florida... who's afraid of little old me being a twist on who's afraid of virginia woolf a film which starred elizabeth taylor and richard burton about a couple whose relationship breaks down at late night drinks in front of people... my boy only breaks his favourite toys - is she the toy??? free from the slammer where the slammer is an obvious reference to jail after all the criminal metaphors of her and joe tricking the system... but daddy i love him being a reference to the little mermaid where she gave up her voice for a man... clara bow being a 1920's film star who found her voice, married a guy who denied they were ever married publicly and then died + the majority of her fame coming from silent films where she literally didn't need to have a voice and then successfully transitioning into 'talkies' (films with sound).... the smallest man who ever lived vs. 'the loudest woman this town has ever seen who had a marvellous time ruining everything'... oh boy.