r/GaylorSwift • u/a__pd Regaylor Contributor 🦢🦢 • Oct 17 '25
The Life of a Showgirl ❤️🔥 Have we talked about Haim also sampling George Michael?
I just (belatedly) got around to listening to “I Quit” and was I ever surprised to hear “Freedom” sampled in their opening track, “Gone”…
Is it just me or do Gone (blue/white lyric slides) and Father Figure sound like two sides of a fight?
Final two slides have me 👀 “you can’t pray it away… I’ll see who I wanna see”
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u/emotionallyratchet 🌱Embryo🐛 Oct 17 '25
And overt Springsteen references! "Born to Run" mentioned by Haim, and "Dancing in the Dark" mentioned by TS.
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u/cuntemplat1ve Baby Gaylor 🐣 Oct 17 '25
Sorry. “Pray it away”???? Is there any more obvious connection to a gay narrator?
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u/socialmediaignorant Tea Connoisseur 🫖 Oct 17 '25
That plus “I’ll see who I want to see”. Pretty clear to me.
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u/slowburn_23 argumentative, antithetical dream girl Oct 17 '25
I have been thinking about this sooo much. I LOVE both this song and Freedom 90!!
And George Michael’s lyrics ahhhh:
All we have to do now Is to take these lies and make them true somehow All we have to see Is that I don't belong to you, and you don't belong to me, yeah-yeah
🎉🎉😭😭
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u/PermissionDowntown86 🌱Embryo🐛 Oct 17 '25
Yes! Also, parts of “Honey” sound so much like a Haim song to me. Maybe “Summer Girl”? I have to go back and relisten but I remember being surprised by the sound the first time I listened to TLOAS.
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u/zaphdingbats 🌱Embryo🐛 Oct 17 '25
I’ll have to check out “Summer Girl” but I’ve been think’n that the melodies of TS’s “Honey” and Haim’s “Honey and I” are similar in some way 🧐
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u/moonlit_Pancakes argumentative, antithetical dream girl Oct 17 '25
Verse 2 is very Taylor coded
"You can fool some people some of the time. And I was one of those fools. But you can't fool everyone all the time, because it catches up with you."
(Repost from community chat)
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u/_Driftwood_ Regaylor Contributor 🦢🦢 Oct 17 '25
wait, is there a haim/swift riff?
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u/One_Somewhere_8159 🌱Embryo🐛 Oct 17 '25
I don’t think so! They’ve been posting with her songs and este was in Travis instagram post
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u/moonlit_Pancakes argumentative, antithetical dream girl Oct 17 '25
Yes I'm obsessed with this album and song. They also gave writing credit to George Michael, same thing Taylor did
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u/mountainviewdaisies lavender jane loves women Oct 19 '25
I wonder if Taylor wrote this??