• Taylor Swift's new album, "The Life of a Showgirl," features a song named after Elizabeth Taylor. • Swift described the song as a blend of cosplay and personal perspective. • The lyrics include nods to the starlet's life, like Portofino, where she got engaged to Richard Burton.

Taylor Swift's "The Life of a Showgirl" is sprinkled with nods to her fiancé, her family, and, of course, her adversaries — but the album's most overt homage is to a Hollywood icon with no apparent personal connection to the author.

The second song on "Showgirl" is named "Elizabeth Taylor" after the famous actor, who died in 2011 at 79 of congestive heart failure. Taylor became a box-office sensation in the '50s and is often cited as the highest-paid movie star of the '60s, largely thanks to a historic multi

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