Who Was Elizabeth Taylor In Taylor Swift's Song From 'Life Of A Showgirl'? She Got Married 8 Times

Taylor Swift dropped her 12th album, Life Of A Showgirl, on October 3, 2025, and within just a few minutes, the music app Spotify crashed due to a huge amount of traffic, as fans were eagerly waiting for the album. The album consists of 13 songs, and each of them touched the core of every Swiftie's heart. From Wood to Fate Of Ophelia's lyrics and soulful voice, left people listening to the songs again and again. Among others, the song, Elizabeth Taylor grabbed special attention. The theme of this song deals with love and reassurance.

Elizabeth Taylor from Life Of A Showgirl gets tagged as #2 by Swifties: What's the song about?

Many have tagged the song, Elizabeth Taylor as the #2 track of Life Of A Showgirl, which apparently deals with love and reassurance. The song discusses how it makes people nervous in matters of the heart and how that person seeks constant reassurance from someone who has experienced the same. In the lyrics, she asks Elizabeth Taylor if she thinks this time it will be forever. She also mentioned how 'right guys' had promised but left, and if this time there would be a 'goodbye', then she would have nothing but to cry her eyes out. The lyrics, the perfectly fitted chorus, combined with Taylor's lyrics, made the song so striking that people couldn't stop talking about it.

Who was Elizabeth Taylor?

Elizabeth Taylor was a famous American actress who ruled the cinema world for nearly six decades. She began her career as a child artist in National Velvet and later won two Oscars for Butterfield 8 and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? The actress was renowned for her beauty, elegance, and glamorous lifestyle and career. And along with fame, the spotlight was also on her love life, which was one of the most talked-about topics back then, as the actress had married seven men eight times. Yes! She first married Conrad Hilton Jr. at the age of 18.

This marriage lasted for one year, and then, she married Michael Wilding. The couple was together for 5 years, and it also didn't work out. Elizabeth Taylor was also married to Mike Todd, Eddie Fisher, John Warner, and Larry Fortensky, and all of these marriages ultimately ended in divorce. She married Richard Burton twice; the couple first tied the knot in 1964, and they had been together for 10 years. After a break, they were reunited again and finally parted ways the following year.

Taylor Swift referred to Elizabeth Taylor in her song of the same name as the actress, as she apparently wanted to write lyrics on the theme of love, and believing that it's true, with the reassurance from someone who had experience in this field, so deep as to kind of provide assurance over the nervousness caused by the haunting past experiences. Elizabeth Taylor was the second starlet featured in Swift's album, the first being Clara Bow, whom she referenced in a song from her 11th album, The Tortured Poets Department, comparing her life journey and career to that of the Hollywood actress of the 1920s and 1930s.

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