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• Montréal, Québec, Feb. 21, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- STACKED LINEUP INCLUDES ESTABLISHED MEGASTARS AND LEADERS OF THE NEW VANGUARD!
• The 2024 edition of the OSHEAGA Music and Arts Festival presented by Bell in collaboration with Coors Light is fast approaching and this year’s wide array of performers is nothing short of exceptional - balancing legends with up-and-comers, high energy with intimacy, and all the bombast fans have come to expect from a leading-edge top-tier festival.
• For the 17th edition, the OSHEAGA booking team has curated the festival with the express mission of appealing to fans of every genre, style, and generation.
• Over the years, OSHEAGA has become a global reference for great music and top-notch festival experiences.

• "The Stitch Gawd" will present the shoes to Benny at The Bulls' February 27 home game against the Detroit Pistons.
• "I'm thrilled to partner with Klarna and design a shoe for Chicago's most iconic mascot, Benny The Bull," said McKee.
• The Benny shoes have all sorts of nods to the Chicago Stadium - namely, the original Benny The Bull shoes were all red, and so are these (with a hint of Klarna pink, of course).
• This is the third consecutive year that Klarna has partnered with a Chicago creative to design special edition sneakers for the Bulls' iconic mascot, previously collaborating with Chuck Anderson and Don C.

• Moments later, Swift uploaded full details of her new record to Instagram, including the album artwork and track list.
• One of the 17 newly revealed tracks is titled Clara Bow.
• Actress Clara Bow (1905-1965) was the original “It girl”.

• This article is part of Quarter Life, a series about issues affecting those of us in our twenties and thirties.
• The articles in this series explore the questions and bring answers as we navigate this turbulent period of life.
• Twitter users called her “disgusting” for bringing her friend and collaborator Lana Del Rey on stage, after she’d lost out on her own award.

Who was Clara Bow?

• Clara Bow was an American silent and early sound film actress, whose tumultuous career spanned from 1922 to 1933.
• Bow’s best-known film, the 1926 silent romantic comedy It, secured her status as a cultural icon who embodied the youth and liberation of the 1920s’ flapper.
• This sequence of events, which kick-started the ongoing mythicisation of Bow’s star image, skips over the work Bow herself put in.

How Clara Bow inspired Taylor Swift

During the height of her career, Bow’s love life was a point of constant ridicule in popular film fan magazines. Headlines branding her “empty hearted” and asking “why can’t the It Girl keep her men?” sought to psychoanalyse her broken engagements. The press labelled Bow an “idiot”, and wondered why “no man [had] led her to the altar”.

• Bow’s assistant and best friend, Daisy DeVoe, was accused of trying to embezzle money from her.
• During my research trip, I was able to access the papers of Clara Bow, as well as those who knew her: including notable gossip columnist Hedda Hopper.
• Perhaps Swift’s ode to Bow will offer some artistic justice for the often-misrepresented starlet.
• But it’s not hard to see why Taylor Swift, a modern starlet whose every move is scrutinised and criticised, would find a rich seam of inspiration in the life of Clara Bow.

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Jennifer Voss receives funding from the AHRC-funded Midlands 4 Cities Post-Doctoral Fellowship Programme.

• UNIVERSAL MUSIC GROUP'S FAMILY OF ARTISTS, SONGWRITERS, LABELS AND PARTNERS WIDELY RECOGNIZED AT THE 66TH ANNUAL GRAMMYS
  Billie Eilish (Interscope) was awarded Song of the Year and Best Song Written for Visual Media for "What Was I Made For?".
• Boygenius (Interscope) won three Grammys including Best Alternative Music Album for The Record, and Best Rock Performance and Best Rock Song for "Not Strong Enough."
• John Williams' "Helena's Theme" (Disney) won Best Instrumental Composition, and The String Revolution featuring Tommy Emmanuel (CIA Records) won Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Cappella.
• Written In Their Soul: The Stax Songwriter Demos (Concord) won Best Historical Album and Best Album Notes.