{"id":505474,"date":"2026-03-31T16:25:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T16:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/505474\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T16:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T16:25:08","slug":"taylor-swift-pays-homage-to-elizabeth-taylor-with-surprise-music-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/505474\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift pays homage to Elizabeth Taylor with surprise music video"},"content":{"rendered":"

As with Swift’s recent video for Opalite – which starred Graham Norton and Lewis Capaldi <\/a>– the promotional clip for Elizabeth Taylor is initially exclusive to Spotify, external<\/a> and Apple Music, external<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Industry analysts have speculated that the decision not to upload it to YouTube is due to a change in the US chart rules, which means songs streamed on the site no longer count towards the Top 100. <\/p>\n

The BBC has asked Swift’s team for clarification but has yet to receive a response. <\/p>\n

But in the case of Opalite, the video was uploaded to YouTube after 48 hours, so the same may hold true with Elizabeth Taylor.<\/p>\n

At the end of the video, some eagle-eyed fans spotted that, although the song was first released in October 2025, the credits read “\u00a92024 Taylor Swift” – confirming that she wrote the track while on the road with her blockbuster Eras tour.<\/p>\n

The release comes 24 hours after Swift was sued by a writer, who says the singer infringed her trademark.<\/p>\n

In a lawsuit filed on Monday in California federal court, Maren Wade, who writes a column in the Las Vegas Weekly called Confessions of a Showgirl, alleged that Swift had “eroded” the value of her trademark by releasing an album with a similar title.<\/p>\n

“A solo performer who spent 12 years building a brand shouldn’t have to watch it disappear because someone bigger came along,” Wade said.<\/p>\n

Swift has declined to comment on the case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As with Swift’s recent video for Opalite – which starred Graham Norton and Lewis Capaldi – the promotional…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":505475,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-505474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}