TAYLOR Swift doesn't hold back on new album The Life of a Showgirl – and music manager Scooter Braun appears to be the target on one track.
The pair's feud began in 2019 when Braun bought Taylor's first record label – Big Machine Label Group – as well as the masters to her first six albums for $300m.
Taylor claimed she wasn't given the opportunity to buy her own work and responded by re-recording all of her first six albums, adding Taylor's Version to the titles.
On new track Father Figure, Taylor hits out at the deal and her former label boss Scott Borchetta, who profited from it.
She sings, "I'll be your father figure, I drink that brown liquor. I can make a deal with the devil because my d's bigger. This love is pure profit, just step into my office."
She later adds: "They don't make loyalty like they used to."
Her reference to brown liquor is thought to be a nod to how Borchetta celebrated selling her masters to Braun over a glass of whisky.
In an open letter to fans about the sale, Taylor previously wrote: "These are two very rich, very powerful men.
"Then they're standing in a wood-panel bar doing a tacky photoshoot, raising a glass of scotch to themselves.
"Because they pulled one over on me and got this done so sneakily that I didn't even see it coming."
Earlier this year, Taylor finally bought back her masters.
Hinting at her victory, she ends the track singing: "We drank that brown liquor. You made a deal with this devil. Turns out my d's bigger. You want a fight, you found it."
Father Figure shares the name with George Michael's 1987 hit and includes part of the original track.
It was fully endorsed by Michael's estate, who said in a statement, "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.
"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.
"George Michael Entertainment wishes Taylor every success with The Life Of A Showgirl and Father Figure."
Braun and Borchetta aren't the only targets on the album.
On Always Romantic, Taylor takes aim at an unnamed drug user who criticized her behind her back and 'high-fived my ex'.
Taylor sings: "I heard you call me 'Boring Barbie' when the coke's got you brave.
"High-fived my ex and then you said you're glad he ghosted me.
"Wrote me a song saying it makes you sick to see my face. Some people might be offended. But it's actually sweet, all the time you've spent on me."
It's believed to be about Charli XCX, who is friends with Taylors ex Matty Healy.
Charli has long been accused of glamorising drug use – even releasing a vinyl of her latest record Brat filled with white powder.
And she appeared to make drug references in the song 365 where she sings about "doing a little key" and a "little line".
This summer Charli married 1975 drummer George Daniel, who is best friends with Healy.
The booze-swilling cigarette smoking singer is understood to have been the inspiration behind her heartbreak record, The Tortured Poets Department.
And despite being happily engaged to Travis Kelce, Taylor appears to still have a bee in her bonnet about the way things ended with Healy and those that have sided with him over her.
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