{"id":57032,"date":"2025-10-02T21:26:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T21:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/57032\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T21:26:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T21:26:07","slug":"george-michael-estate-thanks-taylor-swift-for-father-figure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/57032\/","title":{"rendered":"George Michael Estate Thanks Taylor Swift for ‘Father Figure’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe George Michael estate thanked Taylor Swift<\/a> on Thursday for interpolating the English record producer\u2019s 1987 hit \u201cFather Figure\u201d into her highly anticipated 12th studio album, \u201cThe Life of a Showgirl<\/a>.\u201d<\/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\u2019s classic song \u2018Father Figure\u2019 into a brand new song of the same title to be featured on her forthcoming album,\u201d read a statement posted to the George Michael Facebook page<\/a>. \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 \u2018The Life of a Showgirl\u2019 and \u2018Father Figure.’\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cLife of a Showgirl,\u201d first revealed<\/a> back in August, is set to debut on Oct. 3<\/a> and features fellow pop sensation Sabrina Carpenter on the title track. Typical of Swift\u2019s musical catalog, the album will be available in multiple variants, including \u201cThe Life of a Showgirl: Sweat and Vanilla Perfume\u201d edition in glitter orange vinyl, as well as \u201cThe Life of a Showgirl: The Crowd Is Your King\u201d edition sold exclusively at Target<\/a>. The record will also be available in CD and cassette formats.<\/p>\n

\n\tDuring her \u201cNew Heights\u201d interview, Swift said \u201cThe Life of a Showgirl\u201d was inspired by the joy she felt while performing on her Eras Tour.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThis album is about what was going on behind the scenes of my inner life during this tour, which was so exuberant and electric and vibrant,\u201d she said. \u201cIt just comes from the most infectiously joyful, wild, dramatic place I was in in my life, and so that effervesence has come through on this record.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The George Michael estate thanked Taylor Swift on Thursday for interpolating the English record producer\u2019s 1987 hit \u201cFather…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57033,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,111,139,69,6456,37241],"class_list":["post-57032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-taylor-swift","tag-the-life-of-a-showgirl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57032","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=57032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}