2024-02-03 05:50:59
In addition to being one of the singers who arouses the most passion on a global level, both for her albums (some of which she has recorded twice), and for her personal life, Taylor Swift She has proven, at just 34 years old, that she is a woman of multiple talents..
The Pennsylvania artist has appeared in various film productions such as the version with actors of ‘Cats’, the romantic comedy ‘Valentine’s Day’ or the children’s film ‘Lorax: in search of the lost truffle’. She is also a successful real estate investor, with a property portfolio valued at more than $150 million, she has clothing and perfume lines with various brands, she is the image of many others, and she collaborates with numerous social causes.
But now, her most die-hard fans, the self-proclaimed ‘swifties’, believe they have discovered another surprising activity of their favorite artist: mystery novel writing. The theory has managed to make its way through forums and publications on various websites and social networks, in which some people have no shortage of arguments to defend this, a priori, somewhat far-fetched theory.
According to your data, Taylor would be the real person behind the mysterious writer Elly Conwayauthor of the mystery novel ‘Argylle’, a book that has just been published in our country and whose film adaptation, starring Bryce Dallas Howard, Henry Cavill and Dua Lipa, will be released worldwide on February 2.
The fact that there is not much information on the Internet about the identity of Elly Conway has given wings to conspiracy theorists. In the biography published by the Grijalbo publishing house we can simply read: “Elly Conway was born and raised in upstate New York. She wrote her first novel about Agent ‘Argylle’ while she was working the night shift as a waitress at a coffee shop. She is currently working on the next installment of the series.” In the photo that accompanies this description, the backlit silhouette of a woman who could literally be almost anyone. The author’s Instagram accountin which there is not a single image of her, also fuels the theories.
The arguments of the fans
Although the origin of all these speculations is quite uncertain, perhaps the first “proof” used by those who support this curious theory appeared on March 16 of last year, a couple of months after the novel was published in English.
That day, Taylor uploaded a series of photos to her Instagram account and, in one of them, she was wearing a sweatshirt that read ‘Conway’. It didn’t matter to the fans that under that word, it said ‘Recording Studios’ and the garment was ‘merchandising’ from a well-known Hollywood studio, Conway Recording Studios, where the American superstar usually works.
Another little nod that would prove that Taylor, despite working all the time on her music and giving concerts around the world, has time to write novels, would be the cat that appears in the movie ‘Argylle’, Chip, of the Scottish Fold breed, the same breed to which, oh coincidence, two of Swift’s cats belong, Meredith Gray and Olivia Benson (yes those are their names). The third responds to the name of Benjamin Button.
Chip the cat is becoming a celebrity as a result of the film and has his own Instagram account in which he appears with some of the stars of the film such as Dua Lipa and Samuel L. Jackson. He also helps Its owner is none other than the 90s supermodel Claudia Schiffer..
The relationship between Chip and Taylor would be demonstrated according to those who support the conspiracy because, among other indications, the cat congratulated the artist on her birthday by saying: “Happy birthday, Queen.”
On the other hand, in 2020 Taylor spoke with ‘Rolling Stone’ magazine about his use of pseudonyms in some of his compositions. For example, when in 2016 he composed the song ‘This Is What You Came For’ with his then partner Calvin Harris, he signed the name Nils Sjoberg. “I think using a pseudonym indicates that you still have love for your work, and you don’t want it to be tarnished by this thing that’s been built around you, based on what people know about you,” he said. Would you already be writing the novel by then?
Is Taylor Swift the author?
These, and Swift’s taste for wearing argyle sweaters (‘argylle’ is what the classic diamond pattern is called in English), would be the clearest arguments that fans have to attribute one of the most successful novels of the season to the American singing star, but speaking a little in Serious. Does this theory have any value?
The conspiracy argument has not remained only in the forums of the singer’s craziest fans, many lines have been dedicated to it in articles published in media belonging to the Anglo-Saxon world and, as all readers will probably expect, in general, nobody believes that Swift have written this book.
In fact, journalist Sophia Nguyen wrote in ‘The Washington Post’ that what would probably have happened, given the speed of the adaptation and the anonymity of the author of the novel, was that the idea for the story would have arisen earlier to cinema. Once it was decided that the film would go ahead, Some professional writer would have been commissioned to write the novel. under the name of Elly Conway (who, in addition to being the author, is one of the protagonists of the plot). So it would all be a ‘marketing’ maneuver to give more verisimilitude to the story.
According to Nguyen, the subsequent conspiracy theory of Swift’s authorship would have simply been a “happy accident” which of course the film’s producers would not have been interested in denying in any way. Millions of ‘swifties’ will come to see the movie and buy the book even though they know perfectly well that the singer is not behind it, so everyone wins.
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