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“It started off sounding a bit like Prince. I wanted to hear something in my mix so I cut out the snare and suddenly it changed the whole mood of the track": How George Michael accidentally created the ‘80s smash that’s now been picked up by Taylor

Monday August 18, 2025. 03:44 PM , from Keyboard Magazine

“It ended up, in my mind, being the most original-sounding thing on the album,” he later said

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