died Dec. 8 of congestive heart failure.
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Steven J. Horowitz Senior Music Writer There was a moment in the run-up to the weekend before Thanksgiving when something suddenly shifted for Tate McRae.
She released the video for “Exes” on November 16 to a jolting reaction: Who is that girl whipping her hair and hitting that choreography in a bathroom straight out of a “Saw” movie? At that point, “Greedy,” a twinkling blend of lite-vanity and full-blooded confidence, had already begun to pollinate the charts after osmosing the great divide between TikTok and mainstream. Which is why two days later, her performance of “Greedy” on “Saturday Night Live” showed that she could do it all in real-time.
She only added to the cause the next night, where she did it again at the Billboard Music Awards. The discourse was hitting its peak: Is she the new mother? Must we Stan? Could she be the next main pop girlie? “My true fans knew I danced, but it was finally for the first time like, is she an industry plant?” says the 20-year-old.
She’s seated at a broken conference table in a corner office at her Los Angeles management company, wearing an oversized red jacket with black fringe down the sleeves. “I’m like, I’ve been grinding since 13 years old! I’m probably the furthest thing from an industry plant for how long I’ve been doing this.” Recently anointed Tater-Tots (her fandom name) met her explosive arrival with equal parts intrigue and skepticism.
But anyone with a YouTube or TikTok account—and just the right algorithm—would know that McRae has been a songwriter, dancer and singer since making waves with 2020’s “You Broke Me First,” which now tallies 1.2 billion streams on Spotify. In the years that followed, she planted her flag as a moody, introspective analog to Billie
.died Dec. 8 of congestive heart failure.
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Tate McRae has said she “got bored writing sad songs and being depressing”.In a new interview with Variety, the Canadian popstar opened up about her new musical direction for her latest album ‘Think Later’. McRae originally broke out on the scene with her moody hit song ‘You Broke Me First’.
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