{"id":71147,"date":"2025-08-15T08:20:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T08:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/71147\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T08:20:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T08:20:08","slug":"george-michael-wouldve-loved-taylor-swifts-interpolation-his-ex-bf-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/71147\/","title":{"rendered":"George Michael Would’ve Loved Taylor Swift’s Interpolation, His Ex-BF Says"},"content":{"rendered":"

George Michael
\n Would’ve Loved Taylor Swift’s Interpolation …
\n Says His Ex-Boyfriend<\/p>\n

\n Published August 14, 2025 4:00 PM PDT
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\n Updated August 14, 2025 5:32 PM PDT\n <\/p>\n

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Taylor Swift <\/a>is tipping her hat to the late, great George Michael<\/a> on her upcoming album “The Life of a Showgirl” with a track called “Father Figure” — and the icon\u2019s former partner says George would\u2019ve totally approved of it.<\/p>\n

Kenny Goss — George\u2019s partner of 13 years — tells TMZ George would be proud of the tribute, which isn’t a straight sample, but an interpolation<\/a> … meaning you\u2019ll hear the melody of his ’87 classic woven into Taylor\u2019s track.<\/p>\n

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Kenny tells us George never met Taylor, but he\u2019s pretty sure the icon would\u2019ve been a fan — and would\u2019ve appreciated someone of her caliber taking an interest in his work.<\/p>\n

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Kenny’s personally a fan of Taylor\u2019s music, and while he had no idea she was interpolating the song, it was a welcome surprise — and he\u2019s glad she\u2019s doing this for George, who had a big hit with “Father Figure.”<\/p>\n

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Kenny first met George in 1988, and the two were together for over a decade before splitting in 2009, reportedly due to their shared struggles with addiction. George passed away years later, on Christmas Day 2016.<\/p>\n


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All these years later, Kenny\u2019s got a brand-new way to remember George — and it\u2019s coming with Taylor\u2019s album drop on October 3 … cue the waterworks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"George Michael Would’ve Loved Taylor Swift’s Interpolation … Says His Ex-Boyfriend Published August 14, 2025 4:00 PM PDT…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71148,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-71147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71147","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=71147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}