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Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: What Is Taylor Swift Doing Exactly With George Michael’s “Father Figure” on The Life of a Showgirl? · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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  Speaker 2: It feels like the entire world is counting the hours
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  Speaker 2: until the release of Taylor's album.
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  Speaker 3: It's called The Life of a show Girl.
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  Speaker 2: We know that comes out at midnight Eastern tonight, Saysney
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  Speaker 2: Tiny Eric scientist. Yes, we'll have to wait till until
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  Speaker 2: then they hear it. But Billboard has confirmed the track
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  Speaker 2: rumor to sample the late great George Michael, whom I
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  Speaker 2: love music, It does sound a little different instead.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, Taylor's song Father Figure, which shares its name with
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  Speaker 4: George's iconic nineteen eighty seven hit. Actually she kind of
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  Speaker 4: riffs on the original music and lyrics and makes it
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  Speaker 4: her own.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I can't wait to hear it, and Taylor is
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  Speaker 5: clearly a fan of his. She also covered his band
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  Speaker 5: Wham's classic Last Christmas for her Christmas album back in
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  Speaker 5: two thousand and eight.
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  Speaker 2: So, yeah, the Life is Showgirl.
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  Speaker 3: It arrives tonight, So get ready at midnight. Oh, We're ready.
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  Speaker 1: That's direct from Hollywood.