As Swifties prepare for The Life of a Showgirl to drop at midnight tonight, George Michael ‘s estate released a statement about one of the most anticipated track’s on Taylor Swift ‘s soon-to-be-released album: “Father Figure,” which shares the same name as Michael’s 1987 hit song and interpolates it with her own version.

“We were delighted when Taylor Swift and her team approached us earlier this year about incorporating an interpolation of George Michael‘s classic song ‘Father Figure’ into a brand new song of the same title to be featured on her forthcoming album,” wrote Michael’s estate. “When 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,” they continued, wishing Swift “every success

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