Taylor Swift surprised fans with the release of a music video for “Elizabeth Taylor” from last year’s The Life of a Showgirl.
“What could you possibly get for the girl on the last day of Women’s History Month?” read a post from the Taylor Nation X account on Tuesday, March 31. “We have something in mind! The Elizabeth Taylor Music Video is out now on @Spotify Premium and @AppleMusic.”
Swift, 36, also teased the new release via her Instagram Story, sharing a snippet of the video alongside glittering purple letters reading, “Elizabeth Taylor.”
The music video is unusual in that it doesn’t feature Swift at all: It’s entirely built around vintage clips of Elizabeth Taylor, who died in 2011 at age 79. The video includes footage from classic Taylor films including Cleopatra, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, A Place in the Sun and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? as well as archival clips of Taylor out and about.
“Elizabeth Taylor” appears on Swift’s 12th studio album, The Life of a Showgirl, which dropped in October 2025. While promoting the album, the Grammy winner revealed that the song was inspired by a comment Taylor’s son Chris Wilding made about his mother and Swift.
“My parents sent me this clip of Elizabeth Taylor’s son saying something very flattering, that if there were one person he might compare to his mother in the modern day, in terms of persona and … the chaos around us, he said it would be me,” Swift explained. “I was so flattered by that. I just immediately started talking to Travis [Kelce] about it.”
She added, “I was going on and on about Elizabeth Taylor, talking about all the things about her that I loved … how she kept challenging herself late into her life. I had to get out of the car, I was like, ‘One sec, I have to get out of the car for a second,’ and I just sang this melody into my phone, got back in the car and … that’s what it’s like when it happens.”
Wilding’s comment seemingly came from a September 2024 interview with The Guardian where he said he’d become a fan of the pop star.
“I can’t tell you how much I admire Taylor Swift. I’m now a Swiftie,” Wilding, 71, said at the time. “[Her Instagram post] at the end of that presidential debate was so f***ing great. Huge props to her. That reminds me a little bit of the same spirit my mom had.”
Wilding later said he was excited to hear “Elizabeth Taylor” before The Life of a Showgirl’s release, telling TMZ in August 2025 that Swift is a “rare, positive role model for young girls.”
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