News - What to Know About Elizabeth Taylor When You’re Listening to Taylor Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl

Swift invokes Taylor again in "Elizabeth Taylor," which appears to be dedicated to her fiancé Travis Kelce, as she sings, "Do you think it's forever?" "That view of Portofino was on my mind when you called me at the Plaza Athénée," Swift sings. Portofino held a special place in Taylor's heart—Burton first proposed to her there. Taylor lives throughout the song. Swift sings that if her love story should end, "I'd cry my eyes violet," which is how the actress's eyes were famously described. Later, Swift cements her love with a reference to Taylor's perfume, White Diamonds. "All my white diamonds and lovers are forever," Swift sings. "Don't you ever end up anything but mine." Elizabeth Taylor, who began her career as a child star, won a 1961 Academy Award for best actress in a leading role for Butterfield 8 and one in 1967 for Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? “She usually played a woman of common sense and uncommon passion,” TIME’s former film critic Richard Corliss wrote in her 2011 obituary. “In each role, she found the starting point for a creative journey at the crossroads of modern femininity, or proto-feminism, and ageless star quality.”