With just hours to go until the Thursday midnight release of Taylor Swift ’s 12th studio album, The Life of a Showgirl , antsy Swifties are turning to their father for help: Swift herself.

Track 4 on the album is titled “Father Figure,” and, indeed, it shares more than just winking references to the George Michael track of the same name. The late singer is credited as a co-writer on the song, and Swift in fact interpolates his version in her new work, Billboard confirmed earlier this week. In contrast to a sample—which uses parts of the recording wholesale in the context of the song and requires permission from parties involved in both the songwriting and the recording teams—an interpolation involves a new recording or performance of the underlying composition, and is done in

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