{"id":181495,"date":"2025-10-01T02:31:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T02:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/181495\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T02:31:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T02:31:07","slug":"taylor-swift-interpolates-george-michaels-father-figure-on-the-life-of-a-showgirl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/181495\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift Interpolates George Michael&#8217;s &#8220;Father Figure&#8221; on The Life of a Showgirl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/artist\/taylor-swift\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Taylor Swift<\/a> is taking it back to the big \u201980s.<\/p>\n<p>As confirmed by<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/music-news\/taylor-swift-interpolates-george-michael-father-figure-1236079723\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"> Billboard<\/a>, the pop star has interpolated George Michael\u2019s 1987 hit single, \u201cFather Figure,\u201d on\u00a0a song of the same name that appears on her upcoming new album, <a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/2025\/08\/taylor-swifts-the-life-of-a-showgirl-gets-artwork-release-date-tracklist\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">The Life of a Showgirl<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The George Michael original shot to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1988. It was the fourth single from Michael\u2019s blockbuster debut solo album, Faith.<\/p>\n<p>The news of Swift\u2019s interpolation of Michael\u2019s song comes after weeks of speculation, and with her The Life of a Showgirl album set for release this Friday, October 3rd. Michael\u2019s longtime partner, Kenny Goss, told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2025\/08\/14\/george-michael-song-taylor-swift-new-album\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">TMZ<\/a> that the pop legend would have fully approved of his music being recalled in such a way.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to a resurgence on TikTok, Michael\u2019s \u201cFather Figure\u201d will be a relevant and welcome presence on Swift\u2019s new song.<\/p>\n<p>This won\u2019t be the first time Swift has tipped her hat to Michael; back in 2007, she covered Wham!\u2019s perennial \u201cLast Christmas\u201d on The Taylor Swift Holiday Collection EP.<\/p>\n<p>Related Video<\/p>\n<p>Swift\u2019s The Life of a Showgirl album will arrive with a <a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/2025\/09\/taylor-swift-film-official-release-party-of-a-showgirl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">new film<\/a> titled Official Release Party of a Showgirl, which lands in movie theaters on the release date of October 3rd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift is taking it back to the big \u201980s. As confirmed by Billboard, the pop star has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181496,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,341],"class_list":["post-181495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}