Christopher Wilding, the youngest son of Dame Elizabeth Taylor, just revealed how he really feels about Taylor Swift naming the second song off her 12th studio album The Life of a Showgirl after his late mother.
The 70-year-old retired sound editor told TMZ on Thursday that the 35-year-old billionaire pop star is a ‘rare, positive role model for young girls’ and he ‘admired her philanthropy and courage to stand up for what she believes.’
Christopher believes that Taylor would’ve gotten along with the former child star who died, age 79, in 2011 from congestive heart failure.
Wilding is excited and intrigued to listen to to the song, and hopes it introduces a whole new generation of fans to Elizabeth’s amfAR legacy and acting career.
Taylor welcomed Christopher and her 72-year-old son Michael during her four-year marriage to her Conspirator co-star turned second ex-husband Michael Wilding, which ended in 1957.
Keeping with the showgirl theme, the two-time Oscar winner once portrayed aging Las Vegas chorus girl Fran Walker, who has an affair with a compulsive gambler (Warren Beatty), in George Stevens’ 1970 dramedy The Only Game in Town.
Christopher Wilding, the youngest son of Dame Elizabeth Taylor, just revealed how he really feels about Taylor Swift naming the second song off her 12th studio album The Life of a Showgirl after his late mother (pictured in 2002)
The 70-year-old retired sound editor told TMZ on Thursday that the 35-year-old billionaire pop star is a ‘rare, positive role model for young girls’ and he ‘admired her philanthropy and courage to stand up for what she believes’
Swift previously sang about Elizabeth’s scandalous on/off marriage to her Cleopatra leading man Richard Burton in her 2017 hit song, …Ready for It: ‘And he can be jailor / Burton to this Taylor.’
The 14-time Grammy winner announced Wednesday on her boyfriend Travis Kelce’s podcast New Heights that she will release The Life of a Showgirl on October 3.
‘Every single song is on this album for hundreds of reasons. It is just right,’ Taylor said.
‘This album isn’t really about what happened to me onstage [during my 149-date Eras Tour]. It’s about what I was going through offstage. This, to me, tells more of what the actual contents lyrically of the album are.’
The Life of a Showgirl reunited Swift with producers Max Martin and Shellback, who helped mastermind her albums Red (2012), 1989 (2014), and Reputation (2017).
The Pennsylvania-born belter’s 12-track record includes two songs – Ruin the Friendship and CANCELLED! – which many predict to be about the deterioration of her friendship with Blake Lively.
The canceled 37-year-old allegedly blackmailed Taylor in February by threatening to release a decade of private text messages if she didn’t issue a statement of support amid her Justin Baldoni legal war.
Christopher believes that Taylor would’ve gotten along with the former child star who died, age 79, in 2011 from congestive heart failure
Wilding is excited and intrigued to listen to to the song, and hopes it introduces a whole new generation of fans to Elizabeth’s amfAR legacy and acting career (pictured in 1950)
Taylor welcomed Christopher and her 72-year-old son Michael (2-L, pictured in 1955) during her four-year marriage to her Conspirator co-star turned second ex-husband Michael Wilding (L), which ended in 1957
Keeping with the showgirl theme, the two-time Oscar winner once portrayed aging Las Vegas chorus girl Fran Walker, who has an affair with a compulsive gambler (Warren Beatty), in George Stevens’ 1970 dramedy The Only Game in Town
Swift previously sang about Elizabeth’s scandalous on/off marriage to her Cleopatra leading man Richard Burton in her 2017 hit song, …Ready for It: ‘And he can be jailor / Burton to this Taylor’
The 14-time Grammy winner announced Wednesday on her boyfriend Travis Kelce’s podcast New Heights that she will release The Life of a Showgirl on October 3
‘Every single song is on this album for hundreds of reasons. It is just right,’ Taylor said
On May 30, Swift regained the masters to her first six studio albums – Taylor Swift, Fearless, Speak Now, Red, 1989, and Reputation.
Billboard reported that the How Does It End singer spent around $360M to buy back her music catalog from Shamrock Capital after ‘bully’ Scooter Braun sold her masters to the private equity firm in 2020 (a year after buying them from Big Machine).
‘[My mother Andrea and brother Austin] sat down with Shamrock Capital and they told them what this meant for me. They told them the whole story of all the times we’ve tried to buy it, all the times it’s fallen through,’ Taylor recalled, tearing up.
‘I get a call from my mom and she’s like, “You got your music.” It’s literally been so long since this happened, and it’s every time I talk about it…I just like very dramatically hit the floor for real. Honestly, just started like bawling my eyes out, and I’m just like weeping.’
