As we all know, Ms Swift dropped her album The Tortured Poets Department to massive pandemonium. Closing the album, Clara Bow sits as track number 16, and is named after the actress who rose to fame in the silent era. About the song, Swift explains,
“I used to sit in record labels trying to get a record deal when I was a little kid,” she says. “And they’d say, ‘You know, you remind us of’ and then they’d name an artist, and then they’d kind of say something disparaging about her, ‘But you’re this, you’re so much better in this way or that way.’ And that’s how we teach women to see themselves, as like, ‘You could be the new replacement for this woman who’s done something great before you.’”
The Tortured Poets Department surpassed Midnights to achieve the highest single-day streams for an album on the streaming platform Spotify.
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