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As Swifties prepare for The Life of a Showgirl<\/em> <\/a>to drop at midnight tonight, George Michael\u2019s estate released a statement about one of the most anticipated track\u2019s on Taylor Swift\u2019s 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 \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<\/em>\u00a0and \u2018Father Figure.’\u201d<\/p>\n More from Rolling Stone<\/strong><\/p>\n George 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<\/em>, with the seductive soul ballad climbing to Number One on the Billboard Hot 100.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n