Which artist inspired the title of Taylor Swift’s song “Elizabeth Taylor”?

Taylor Swift’s song “Elizabeth Taylor” was inspired by the actress Elizabeth Taylor.

The song appears as the second track on The Life of a Showgirl and uses Taylor’s name as its title. Swift described the actress as an ultimate, quintessential showgirl, connecting her screen image and highly publicized life with the album’s themes of fame, romance, and performance.

The lyrics draw parallels between two famous women whose personal lives attracted intense public attention. Rather than functioning as a biography, the song uses Elizabeth Taylor as a cultural reference point for thinking about celebrity, love, and scrutiny.

The title can create a small identification trap because Taylor is also Swift’s first name. In this song, however, “Taylor” refers to Elizabeth Taylor, the British-American actress known for films including Cleopatra and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? The track is not a song about Swift’s own first name.