Taylor Swift. Or rather the Taylor Swift phenomenon has gripped the world yet again. Whether you're a die-hard Swiftie (or not so much), it's hard to deny she is a musical, cultural, and style force of a generation. She's also one of the most polarizing figures in pop culture (and maybe history). Like it or not Taylor Swift has become the reigning queen of a new breed of women we've dubbed "Lit" Girls — with more money, power, style, and mega-influence than ever before (discover all the "Lit" girls here). Even 90s rock icon Courtney Love has stated that Swift is "probably the Madonna of now. " Not to be misleading, as Love is firmly in the "Swift is overrated" school of thinking— Love unleashed in a recent interview with The Standard London claiming Swift "is not important" and stating the pop star "might be a safe space for girls, but she's not interesting as an artist."
Many, like BFFs Blake Lively, Ice Spice, the millions of Swifties around the world, and the legendary Stevie Nicks — a Swift fan-girl who penned a poem for the star's new album— would disagree. And if she were alive today, we suspect Clara Bow (a forgotten screen siren of the glamorous Jazz Era) would also be firmly in the pro-Taylor Swift camp. Like Swift, Bow was the celebrity It girl of the moment, celebrated and condemned in equal measure. This could explain why Taylor Swift has named a song after Clara Bow on her on her new album.
