{"id":184693,"date":"2025-10-02T09:46:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T09:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/184693\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T09:46:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T09:46:12","slug":"taylor-swifts-album-credits-george-michael","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/184693\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift\u2019s Album Credits George Michael"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is something special, something sacred.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/george_michael\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer nofollow\">George Michael<\/a>\u2014who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/834279\/george-michael-s-cause-of-death-revealed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer nofollow\">passed away in 2016<\/a> at the age of 53\u2014is getting a posthumous music credit on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/taylor_swift\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Taylor Swift\u2019<\/a>s forthcoming 12th studio album The Life of a Showgirl.<\/p>\n<p>As was suspected upon the release of the track list, Taylor\u2019s \u201cFather Figure\u201d will act as an homage to George\u2019s 1987 song of the same name, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/music-news\/taylor-swift-interpolates-george-michael-father-figure-1236079723\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Billboard has learned<\/a>. But instead of directly sampling the beloved song, Taylor\u2019s version will interpolate the original into her new edition.<\/p>\n<p>Before the news was officially\u00a0confirmed, George\u2019s former partner of 13 years Kenny Goss gave his stamp of approval. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2025\/08\/14\/george-michael-song-taylor-swift-new-album\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer nofollow\">As Kenny told TMZ<\/a> in August, he thinks the late singer would be proud of the homage, and though George had never met Taylor, Kenny imagined he would\u2019ve been a fan of the Midnights artist.<\/p>\n<p>But while Taylor has kept the curtain closed on the specific details of The Life of a Showgirl, in true Taylor fashion she has left a trail of Easter eggs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This is something special, something sacred. George Michael\u2014who passed away in 2016 at the age of 53\u2014is getting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":184694,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,341],"class_list":["post-184693","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\/184693","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=184693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}