Taylor Swift attends the Grammys on Feb. 2, 2025 in Los Angeles, CA. Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images for The Recording Academy Taylor Swift has unveiled the music video for “Elizabeth Taylor,” the second track from her record-breaking 12th studio album, The Life of a Showgirl.
The visual serves as a kind of visual homage to complement Swift’s about the legendary starlet, featuring an array of clips from Taylor’s life and classic filmography. It appears that Swift has only released the “Elizabeth Taylor” visual on streaming services like Spotify and Apple Music, with no version on YouTube as of yet. (YouTube, it’s perhaps worth noting, recently stopped submitting data to Billboard, so streams there no longer count towards placement on charts like the Hot 100.)
Many critics consider “Elizabeth Taylor” to be the centerpiece of The Life of a Showgirl. The track pays homage to the legendary Hollywood actress whose own career mirrored Swift’s own in many ways. As Rolling Stone music critic Rob Sheffield writes, “the Liz/Swift soul connection goes deep, way beyond their shared name. Both Taylors got famous as kids, grew up in public as America’s sweetheart,” adding, “like Swift, Liz was the ingenue who made everything sticky by growing up.”
