Taylor Swift Is the Last Showgirl |
As The Life of a Showgirl bows, Savannah Walsh takes us through the cinematic history of the blonds, from Marilyn Monroe to Pamela Anderson’s Shelly, who may have inspired Taylor Swift’s new album. Like some of pop culture’s other showgirls, Swift seems to grasp that the sweetness of performing can only be considered now that much of the bitterness has been aired. In The Last Showgirl, Shelly worries about her relevance as a performer and a world in which she can’t perform on the same scale as she did during her 30-year stint onstage. When forced to ponder a similar issue, Swift recalled in 2023: “I thought instead, I’d replace myself first with a new me. It’s harder to hit a moving target.” Like most showgirls, Swift has never been very good at staying still.
Elsewhere in HWD, Erin Vanderhoof goes along for the ride with Finneas O’Connell and Ashlyn Willson ahead of their Central Park performance; Jordan Hoffman recommends the best movies on Amazon Prime in October; Julia Roberts might let you wear her Armani suit; and Chris Murphy speaks to Ben Collins about The Onion’s cinematic response to the Jeffrey Epstein saga. |
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