{"id":2353495,"date":"2026-03-31T21:16:04","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T21:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2353495"},"modified":"2026-03-31T21:16:04","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T21:16:04","slug":"taylor-swift-honors-elizabeth-taylor-in-new-music-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/taylor-swift-honors-elizabeth-taylor-in-new-music-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift honors Elizabeth Taylor in new music video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Taylor Swift stepped away from the camera in her new \u201cElizabeth Taylor\u201d music video.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of starring in the Apple Music and Spotify Premium exclusive video, as the pop star typically does, she opted to use clips from the Hollywood icon\u2019s films. The clips include shots from films including \u201cCleopatra,\u201d \u201cFather of the Bride,\u201d \u201cCat on a Hot Tin Roof,\u201d \u201cA Place in the Sun,\u201d \u201cGiant,\u201d \u201cSuddenly, Last Summer,\u201d \u201cWho\u2019s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?,\u201d \u201cJulia Misbehaves\u201d and the late \u201960s cult favorite \u201cBoom!\u201d according to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/music\/news\/taylor-swift-elizabeth-taylor-music-video-1236703350\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/music\/news\/taylor-swift-elizabeth-taylor-music-video-1236703350\/\" class=\"themeColorForLinks\">Variety<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While the video is currently only available to users who pay for one of the two audio streaming platforms, fans may soon be able to watch the video for free. Swift\u2019s \u201cOpalite\u201d music video made its way to YouTube\u2019s free tier just two days after it was initially released. The same may end up being true about \u201cElizabeth Taylor,\u201d although we don\u2019t know for certain.<\/p>\n<p>Lyrics in the song include clear references to the \u201cCleopatra\u201d star\u2019s life, such as \u201cI\u2019ll cry my eyes violet,\u201d which refers to the actress\u2019s unique eye color, while \u201cAll my white diamonds and lovers are forever\u201d is a call-out to her fragrance line, White Diamonds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cElizabeth Taylor\u201d is the second track on Swift\u2019s recent album, \u201cThe Life of a Showgirl.\u201d And yes, the Grammy winner did get permission from the real Elizabeth Taylor\u2019s estate. During an interview on the \u201cRadio 2 Breakfast Show,\u201d host Scott Mills asked, \u201cDo you need to warn people when you mention them in songs?\u201d Swift replied, \u201cIf they&#8217;re real people. Yeah.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She then added, \u201cIf it&#8217;s like, Elizabeth Taylor, we go to their family and her estate and let them know. And they were lovely about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Follow us on Instagram <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/wearepauserewind\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/wearepauserewind\/\" class=\"themeColorForLinks\">@WeArePauseRewind<\/a> for all your pop culture obsessions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source thenationaldesk.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taylor Swift stepped away from the camera in her new \u201cElizabeth Taylor\u201d music video. Instead of starring in the Apple Music and Spotify Premium exclusive video, as the pop star typically does, she opted to use clips from the Hollywood icon\u2019s films. The clips include shots from films including \u201cCleopatra,\u201d \u201cFather of the Bride,\u201d \u201cCat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2353496,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[386953,49217,347927,22851,23084,343132,456820],"class_list":["post-2353495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-cleopatra","tag-elizabeth-taylor","tag-hollywood-films","tag-music-video","tag-taylor-swift","tag-the-life-of-a-showgirl","tag-white-diamonds"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Taylor-Swift-honors-Elizabeth-Taylor-in-new-music-video.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2353495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2353495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2353495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2353497,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2353495\/revisions\/2353497"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2353496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2353495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2353495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2353495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}