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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30+ years from now, no one is going to be remaking a Swift song for whatever “defiant” reason.
Exactly. George Michael was/is a very creepy guy.
Sounds like pedophilia.
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.
…”, 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?
Any dude that gets involved with this crazy puta is loco in the cabesa...
She just keeps confirming it year after year.
Both singing about men is flipping nothing.
Both singing about men is flipping nothing.
That song is about the root of homosexuality.
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