{"id":186645,"date":"2025-10-03T04:47:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T04:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/186645\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T04:47:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T04:47:07","slug":"taylor-swift-releases-new-album-the-life-of-a-showgirl-listen-and-read-the-full-credits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/186645\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift Releases New Album The Life of a Showgirl: Listen and Read the Full Credits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe were delighted when Taylor Swift and her team approached us earlier this year about incorporating an interpolation of George Michael\u2019s classic song \u2018Father Figure\u2019 into a brand new song of the same title to be featured on her forthcoming album,\u201d the George Michael estate shared in <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DPUEPnaDHy0\/?hl=en\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DPUEPnaDHy0\/?hl=en&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DPUEPnaDHy0\/?hl=en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a statement<\/a> posted to the late singer\u2019s social media accounts. \u201cWhen we heard the track we had no hesitation in agreeing to this association between two great artists and we know George would have felt the same. George Michael Entertainment wishes Taylor every success with The Life of a Showgirl and Father Figure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After announcing The Life of a Showgirl almost two months ago, Swift <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/taylor-swift-reveals-new-album-cover-and-tracklist-on-travis-kelces-podcast-watch\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">revealed<\/a> the album&#8217;s cover art and tracklist on an episode of New Heights, the podcast hosted by her <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/taylor-swift-and-travis-kelce-announce-engagement\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">now-fianc\u00e9e<\/a>, Travis Kelce, and his brother, Jason Kelce. Since releasing The Tortured Poets Department in 2024, she concluded her record-breaking, 149-date <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/thepitch\/review-the-secondhand-thrills-of-taylor-swifts-eras-tour-concert-movie\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Eras Tour<\/a>, which reportedly grossed <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/taylor-swift-grossed-over-2-billion-in-ticket-sales-on-eras-tour\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">over $2 billion<\/a> in ticket sales and spawned both a <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/taylor-swift-announces-eras-tour-book\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">companion book<\/a> and a <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/taylor-swift-announces-eras-tour-concert-film\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">three-hour concert film<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In May, Swift announced that had <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/taylor-swift-regains-control-of-master-recordings\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">bought back<\/a> the master recordings for her first six studio albums, which she\u2019d been steadily re-recording as the Taylor\u2019s Version series. She ended up releasing new versions of <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/reviews\/albums\/taylor-swift-fearless-taylors-version\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fearless<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/reviews\/albums\/taylor-swift-red-taylors-version\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Red<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/reviews\/albums\/taylor-swift-speak-now-taylors-version\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Speak Now<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/reviews\/albums\/taylor-swift-1989-taylors-version\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">1989<\/a> between 2021 and 2023. According to Swift, a re-recorded version of her <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/reviews\/albums\/taylor-swift-taylor-swift\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">self-titled debut album<\/a> is in the can, but Reputation (Taylor\u2019s Version) was never completed.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWe were delighted when Taylor Swift and her team approached us earlier this year about incorporating an interpolation&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186646,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[328,43,3504,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-186645","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-new-releases","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-top-news","13":"tag-top-stories","14":"tag-topnews","15":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186645","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=186645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}