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Sound familiar? Taylor Swift flips George Michael’s “Father Figure” into a song of defiance
Diario AS ^ | Oct 3, 2025 | Jennifer Bubel

Posted on 10/08/2025 10:50:21 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege

If you listened to “Father Figure” and thought it sounded familiar, you’re not crazy. In Taylor Swift’s newest album, “The Life of a Showgirl”, her song “Father Figure” uses bits of George Michael’s 1987 classic of the same name, including the lyrics, “I’ll be your father figure” as well as some of the melody. However, the message Swift sends couldn’t be more different than the one Michael sent.

You want a fight, you found it

I got the place surrounded

You’ll be sleeping with the fishes before you know you’re drowning

Whose portrait’s on the mantle?

Who covered up your scandals?

Mistake my kindness for weakness and find your card canceled

I was your father figure

You pulled the wrong trigger

This empire belongs to me

Leave it with me

I protect the family

Taylor Swift flips George Michael’s iconic track into a cutting meditation on betrayal and power struggles, aimed squarely at her embattled past with former label boss Scott Borchetta. While Michael’s version painted the “father figure” as a source of intimacy and protection, Swift turns the phrase into a weapon, reframing Borchetta from industry protector to foil.

Swift, who was first signed by Borchetta as a teenager at Big Machine Records, uses the track to reclaim her narrative, turning a pop classic into a pointed statement about her own history. The song retraces her early discovery, their falling out over ownership of her masters, and the gut punch of watching her life’s work sold twice without her control.

But now, with her catalog finally back in her hands, Swift delivers the track like a victory lap disguised in confrontation. By interpolating a pop classic, she both honors George Michael and reclaims her story…

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TOPICS: Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: 2muchtaytay; 80s; eighties; entertainment; georgemichael; georgemichaels; music; taylorswift

1 posted on 10/08/2025 10:50:21 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: CondoleezzaProtege
Should do the trick
2 posted on 10/08/2025 10:54:42 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage? (Drain the Swamp. Build the Wall)
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30+ years from now, no one is going to be remaking a Swift song for whatever “defiant” reason.


3 posted on 10/08/2025 11:08:03 AM PDT by proust (All posts made under this handle are, for the intents and purposes of the author, considered satire.)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege
George Michael's Father Figure was pedo-creepy with lyrics about being "bold and naked at your side", repeated in the 2nd verse as "warm and naked at my side", the chorus having "put your tiny hand in mine", and another verse saying "love can be mistaken for a crime".
4 posted on 10/08/2025 11:13:10 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Tell It Right

Exactly. George Michael was/is a very creepy guy.


5 posted on 10/08/2025 11:19:16 AM PDT by Antoninus (Republicans are all honorable men.)
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To: Tell It Right

Sounds like pedophilia.


6 posted on 10/08/2025 11:30:40 AM PDT by WashingtonSource
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To: CondoleezzaProtege
As opposed to the original that had creepy pedophile lyrics.
7 posted on 10/08/2025 11:38:01 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (It's like somebody just put the Constitution up on a wall …. and shot the First Amendment -Mike Rowe)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

I really do not understand her fans; she is not a great voice much less a great singer; and some of her tunes use the old ‘70s disco background beat.


8 posted on 10/08/2025 12:53:31 PM PDT by Wuli (uire)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

…”, turning a pop classic into a pointed statement about her own history. “

Seems like a lazy effort. Given the subject matter why didn’t she write her own damn song?


9 posted on 10/08/2025 2:22:35 PM PDT by TalBlack (Their god is government. Prepare for a religious war.https://freerepublic.com/perl/post?id=4322961%2)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Any dude that gets involved with this crazy puta is loco in the cabesa...

She just keeps confirming it year after year.


10 posted on 10/08/2025 5:05:39 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Both singing about men is flipping nothing.


11 posted on 10/09/2025 12:52:39 AM PDT by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Both singing about men is flipping nothing.


12 posted on 10/09/2025 12:52:40 AM PDT by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It
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To: Tell It Right

That song is about the root of homosexuality.


13 posted on 10/09/2025 8:10:26 AM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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