![]() Like “One Day,” “You Broke Me First” is a tender, midtempo pop song, and together they contributed to McRae’s early classification as a “sad pop” songwriter, drawing comparisons as Canada’s answer to Billie Eilish. Then came the pandemic still, she stuck with the plan, releasing what became her breakout hit, “You Broke Me First,” that April despite being homebound - unable to promote it or fully enjoy its success. Michelle Genevieve Gonzalesīy 2020, McRae was well positioned for a major year, with a proper team assembled. Vintage Junya Watanabe top, MM6 Maison Margiela jeans. ![]() “It’s all one world.” But merging the two didn’t happen without some friction. “Now a lot of my time revolves around music in some way: thinking about music, playing music, driving and listening to music,” McRae says. When she got her start in the industry, she was straddling two different worlds. “But still, even at that age, she was so clear on where she wanted to go and what was important to her.”Īnd while those in McRae’s inner circle agree she has always wanted to steer her own ship - and has proved more than capable - she says that it took her until now to learn how to sail full speed ahead and in only one direction: her own. “She was so young then, obviously, but so determined and really in some ways sort of moved like a competitive athlete, which makes a lot of sense, given her dance background,” RCA COO John Fleckenstein says. As her high school graduation in Calgary neared, McRae was splitting her time between midterms and awards shows. The lovelorn piano ballad “One Day” (which McRae wrote herself) gained traction online, and by early 2018, she and her parents were flying to New York for label meetings (accompanied by McRae’s dance manager at the time) just a year later, it was announced that she had signed a record deal with RCA and a management deal with Hard 8 Working Group. One of the first videos she posted was a song that proved she wasn’t destined to be anyone’s backup - and could very much hold pop’s center stage on her own. Tate McRae: Photos From the Billboard Cover Shoot She thought she would go on to become a backup dancer, but she felt equally drawn to songwriting, covering her bedroom walls with lyrics, quotes and poems that her mother has since painted over in a shade she describes as “serial killer white.” As a teen, McRae placed third on the 2016 season of So You Think You Can Dance and soon after, in fall 2017, launched the weekly YouTube series Create With Tate, which she used to share new choreography and music covers. Now 20 and living in Los Angeles, the native of Calgary, Alberta (which she calls “the Texas of Canada”), has spent much of her life thus far on screens - both her own, while navigating TikTok like a promotional pro, and others, whether on network TV or YouTube. ![]() “You evolve so much, and not only am I seeing it, but I’m documenting it in my music in real time.” “I was the most awkward person ever, and I was like, ‘There’s no chance that this is the same person,’ ” she says with a grimace. Tate McRae was recently scrolling TikTok when an old interview she did at 16 came across the screen. ![]()
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