Taylor Swift was just 21 when Elizabeth Taylor died in March 2011, so you might assume that she isn’t all that familiar with the screen legend, whose career peaked in the 1950s and 1960s. You’d be wrong. She’s not only familiar with her, but a big fan.

“Elizabeth Taylor,” the second track on Swift’s new album The Life of a Showgirl, is a valentine to the legendary star, who was in the public eye for nearly 70 years before she died in 2011 at age 79. Swift co-wrote and co-produced the song with Max Martin and Shellback, with whom she created the entire album. The album enters the Billboard 200 at No. 1 this week. “Elizabeth Taylor,” which contains references to Taylor’s violet eyes and her White Diamonds perfume, enters the Billboard Hot 100 at No. 3, behind two other songs from Swift’s al

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