{"id":556538,"date":"2026-03-31T17:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T17:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/556538\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T17:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T17:22:10","slug":"taylor-swift-drops-lush-elizabeth-taylor-video-paying-homage-to-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/556538\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift Drops Lush ‘Elizabeth Taylor’ Video Paying Homage To Star"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tTaylor Swift<\/a> pays homage to one of the most iconic stars of screen in the new video<\/a> for her The Life of a Showgirl track \u201cElizabeth Taylor.\u201d The visual dropped on Tuesday morning (March 31) and, like her previous videos from the album, it was available only on Spotify and Apple Music, with no version uploaded to YouTube at present.<\/p>\n

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\n\tUnlike so many of Swift\u2019s colorful, story-centered videos, the \u201cElizabeth Taylor\u201d visual consists of a series of clips from Taylor\u2019s most beloved films, with Swift entirely absent from the proceedings. The mega-mix of Taylor films cut together include bits from such big screen hallmarks as Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Cleopatra, Father of the Bride, Giant, A Place in the Sun and Who\u2019s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?\u201d among others.<\/p>\n

\n\tAlso included in the montage are glimpses of the legendary actress in newsreel footage in which she\u2019s draped in her signature jewels and glamorous outfits during public appearances and paparazzi shots. Among the other films excerpted in the video are: Elephant Walk, Boom!, Julia Misbehaves, Love Is Better Than Ever, Rhapsody and Suddenly Last Summer.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cElizabeth Taylor\u201d is the latest single<\/a> from Swift\u2019s The Life of a Showgirl album. The song paying homage to the Hollywood legend follows on the heels of the first two radio singles from the singer\u2019s 12th studio album, \u201cThe Fate of Ophelia\u201d and \u201cOpalite.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cOftentimes it doesn\u2019t feel so glamorous to be me\/ All the right guys promised they\u2019d stay\/ Under bright lights, they withered away, but you bloom,\u201d Swift sings on the song, which features the chorus, \u201cI\u2019d cry my eyes violet, Elizabeth Taylor\/Tell me for real, do you think it\u2019s forever?\/ Been number one, but I never had two\/ And I can\u2019t have fun if I can\u2019t have\/ Be my NY wh\u0435n Hollywood hates me\/ You\u2019re only as hot as your last hit, baby\/ Been numb\u0435r one, but I never had two\/ And I can\u2019t have fun if I can\u2019t have you.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tUpon the album\u2019s release in October, Swift said she asked permission from the Taylor estate<\/a> to pay tribute in the song to the Oscar-winning actress who died in 2011 at age 73 \u2014\u00a0when Swift was just 21 \u2014\u00a0explaining that because she was writing about a real person she did her due diligence and \u201cwe go to their family and their estate and let them know and they were lovely about it.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tThe video credits include a thank you to the House of Taylor & the Elizabeth Taylor Trust, as well as the Todd and Wilding families; Taylor\u2019s son is Christopher Wilding and Taylor\u2019s third husband was Mike Todd.<\/p>\n

\n\tDescribing the song on The Tonight Show around the album\u2019s release, Swift said<\/a>, \u201cI love her so much. She is, I think, the ultimate sort of icon\/role model that I look to when I look at somebody who had immense pressure on them, was extremely scrutinized, everything that she ever did. She kept making more and more daring art. It\u2019s almost like the more polarizing people were about her, the more she just kept doing even more challenging roles, taking bigger risks.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tThe song was co-written and co-produced by Swift with Max Martin and Shellback.<\/p>\n


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