{"id":149588,"date":"2025-09-30T20:31:31","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T03:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=149588"},"modified":"2025-09-30T20:31:31","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T03:31:31","slug":"taylor-swift-is-paying-homage-to-george-michael-on-her-upcoming-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/taylor-swift-is-paying-homage-to-george-michael-on-her-upcoming-album\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift is paying homage to George Michael on her upcoming album"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Taylor Swift<\/strong> is about to drop her next big era, and this time she\u2019s paying homage to a legend! Her upcoming album, <strong>The Life of a Showgirl<\/strong>, arriving October 3rd, features a track titled \u201cFather Figure\u201d that interpolates <strong>George Michael<\/strong>\u2019s 1988 classic of the same name. After weeks of Swifties guessing, Billboard confirmed on September 30th that the late pop king will indeed be credited on the track. Talk about pop history!<\/p>\n<p>Instead of sampling the original, Taylor Swift weaves Michael\u2019s timeless hit into her own lyrics, giving it a new spin for a new generation. Michael\u2019s ex-partner <strong>Kenny Goss<\/strong> even said he believed George would have loved it. The interpolation adds another layer of nostalgia to an already highly anticipated album. Sabrina Carpenter will appear as the only feature, teaming up with Taylor on the title track.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tswifterastour\/status\/1972841588616466607\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8| George Michael is credited as a songwriter on &quot;Father Figure&quot; from Taylor Swift&#39;s upcoming album &#39;The Life of a Showgirl&#39;! This could possibly be due to a sample! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TSTheLifeofaShowgirl?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#TSTheLifeofaShowgirl<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tg9zN3mx4s\">pic.twitter.com\/tg9zN3mx4s<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Eras Tour (@tswifterastour) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tswifterastour\/status\/1972841588616466607?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 30, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cFather Figure\u201d was one of Michael\u2019s biggest hits from his Faith album, topping the US charts two weeks back in 1988. Recently, it\u2019s been rediscovered by Gen Z thanks to TikTok edits and viral audios. With Taylor Swift\u2019s decision to incorporate it into her record, it\u2019s feeling like a full-circle pop moment, and this time it\u2019s two eras of icons coming together to maximize their joint slay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taylor Swift is about to drop her next big era, and this time she\u2019s paying homage to a legend! Her upcoming album, The Life of a Showgirl, arriving October 3rd, features a track titled \u201cFather Figure\u201d that interpolates George Michael\u2019s 1988 classic of the same name. After weeks of Swifties guessing, Billboard confirmed on September [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3104,"featured_media":149589,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2264,7,4],"tags":[22],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-149588","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"category-news","9":"category-pop","10":"tag-taylor-swift"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149588"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=149588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}