The Life of a Showgirl interpolates the massive 1987 hit on Swift’s track sharing the same name<\/p>\n
\n\tAs Swifties prepare for The Life of a Showgirl <\/a>to drop at midnight tonight, George Michael<\/a>\u2018s estate released a statement about one of the most anticipated track\u2019s on Taylor Swift<\/a>\u2018s soon-to-be-released album: \u201cFather Figure,\u201d which shares the same name as Michael\u2019s 1987 hit song and interpolates it with her own version.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cWe were delighted when Taylor Swift and her team approached us earlier this year about incorporating an interpolation of George Michael\u2018s classic song \u2018Father Figure\u2019 into a brand new song of the same title to be featured on her forthcoming album,\u201d wrote Michael\u2019s estate. \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,\u201d they continued, wishing Swift \u201cevery success with\u00a0The Life of a Showgirl\u00a0and \u2018Father Figure.’\u201d<\/p>\n \t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n \n\tGeorge Michael<\/a>, the British heartthrob who became an icon of the Eighties as half of\u00a0Wham!<\/a>\u00a0and later as a solo artist, died in 2016<\/a> at the age of 53.\u00a0\u201cFather Figure<\/a>\u201d featured on his solo debut album, Faith, with the seductive soul ballad climbing to Number One on the Billboard Hot 100.<\/p>\n \n\tThe Life of a Showgirl is Swift\u2019s 12th studio album and spans 12 songs, with the Michael-featuring track listed as the fourth offering and notably be followed by \u201cEldest Daughter.\u201d Swift will return to the late-night promo circuit <\/a>after three years to promote the record and will appear on The Graham Norton Show,\u00a0The Tonight Show<\/a>\u00a0Starring Jimmy Fallon, and\u00a0Late Night With Seth Meyers following its release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Life of a Showgirl interpolates the massive 1987 hit on Swift’s track sharing the same name As…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56973,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,47709,157,111,139,69,6456],"class_list":{"0":"post-56972","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-george-michael","10":"tag-music","11":"tag-new-zealand","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-taylor-swift"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}