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2 min readIn a new Esquire interview, Joe Jonas said he has \u201cheard some\u201d of Taylor Swift\u2019s album The Life of a Showgirl and offered a non-committal review.This comes amid theories that \u201cThe Life of a Showgirl\u201d may interpolate the Jonas Brothers\u2019 2019 track \u201cCool.\u201d Joe, who dated Taylor in 2008 and later married then divorced Sophie Turner, told Esquire he\u2019s now single and focused on touring.<\/p>\n
Mr. Perfectly Fine has entered the chat, and apparently, he thought The Life of a Showgirl was…perfectly fine. During a new interview with Esquire, Joe Jonas<\/a> was asked his opinion on his ex-girlfriend Taylor Swift<\/a>\u2019s latest album, and his answer was a bit cagey. <\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ve heard some of it,\u201d Joe said of the album. \u201cI think she\u2019s obviously the biggest artist out there, and I think it\u2019s good. Everybody\u2019s got an opinion about it, but from what I\u2019ve heard, there are some catchy melodies.\u201d Now, of course, fans are reading into things, especially amid the rumors that \u201cThe Life of a Showgirl\u201d interpolated the 2019 Jonas Brothers\u2019 track \u201cCool.\u201d<\/p>\n First: a quick refresher on interpolation and how it\u2019s different from covering or sampling. While a cover is a new performance of an existing song and a sample uses a fragment of an original sound recording, an interpolation is kind of something in between. <\/p>\n It\u2019s defined<\/a> as re-performing part of a song\u2014such as a melody, lyric, or riff\u2014within a new composition, such as how Taylor interpolated George Michael\u2019s \u201cFather Figure\u201d in her song of the same name, or how Olivia Rodrigo interpolated Taylor\u2019s \u201cNew Year\u2019s Day\u201d for \u201c1 Step Forward, 3 Steps Back\u201d…and possibly interpolated Taylor\u2019s \u201cCruel Summer\u201d for \u201cDeja Vu\u201d (which led to no shortage of drama<\/a>). <\/p>\n And while \u201cCool\u201d by the Jonas Brothers was previously listed under \u201cThe Life of a Showgirl Interpolations\u201d among the credits on Genius<\/a>, that credit has seemingly since been removed, so it\u2019s unclear whether Taylor purposefully interpolated \u201cCool\u201d for the track.<\/p>\n