Taylor Swift reveals how her popular song “Elizabeth Taylor” from her 12th studio album The Life of a Showgirl came into being. She revealed she was on a car ride with her fiancé, Travis Kelce, in a new profile interview for The New York Times Magazine.
Taylor Swift talks about how she wrote Elizabeth Taylor
Taylor Swift revealed how a car ride with Travis Kelce inspired her new song, “Elizabeth Taylor.” Swift said, “I am riding in the car with Travis, I go on and on explaining to Travis why I love Elizabeth Taylor so much. She fought for artists’ rights. She was exploited in so many ways, and yet she kept her humanity. Kept her humor and her passion for life. I was just going on and on.”
Continuing further, Swift said, “I was like, ‘Her eyes were violet. Some people said they were blue. Some people said they were violet. I think they were violet.’ And we arrive, we get home, he gets out of the car. I’m like this intrusive memory of ‘I would cry my eyes violet, Elizabeth Taylor.’ I’m just scrambling to open my record app on my phone. But that’s like one of the spontaneous places where it floats down like a cloud in front of you, and all you have to do is grab it. The song transpires from there, it comes as if from nowhere.”
“That’s a really fun way that songs come about. That’s the way it happens, most of the time,” the singer added. Around a month back, Swift released a separate music video for the song “Elizabeth Taylor.” The music video is a compilation of Taylor’s videos, with Swift’s dreamy vocals playing.
Fans had interesting reactions to it in the comments section. One fan asked, “Then why didn’t you give us a proper music video…” A second fan commented, “’I’d cry my eyes violet’ came from a random car ride conversation, and it’s already iconic.”
A third fan wrote, “I need everyone to stream Elizabeth Taylor and view the music video on YouTube, because its quality is timeless, even if this tribute may seem small.” A fourth fan penned, “She hears a feeling, turns it into a lyric, and suddenly it becomes a whole era.”
Originally reported by Anwaya Mane on Mandatory
