When Ali Gatie and I released “Lie To Me,” we did this video that started me with me asking him, “Do you wanna write a song?” Everyone was super into it. Sometimes I’ll record a voice memo with the clip of the song a week before I drop it. No filters, no nothing.ĭo you preview your songs on TikTok first? The videos you post every day are of your real life. It’s easy to feel really close to your fans. It’s so addicting and a great marketing tool, especially because I can create trends to my songs. Which social media platform have you been engaging most with during the pandemic? Now in a pandemic, it feels like I’m going back to my roots and playing on my OG piano that I played when I first started. Back then, I was in a very vulnerable place with all my fans. I posted videos every Friday and wrote new songs every week. You dedicate so much time and energy to one person just to find out that they’re talking to 50 other girls at the same time.Ģ1 Under 21 Ones To Watch: Jawsh 685, Tate McRae, Keedron Bryant and Moreĭo you think that growing up with social media has helped you feel more comfortable with connecting with your fans online? You know those little talking relationships that never go anywhere on Snapchat? Those are the worst. There are so many different mind games on social media nowadays. When you’re talking to someone, how do you cope with waiting for a text back? I keep those emotions pent up, so I can create stories around them and shape what I would say from another perspective. There are so many situations when you feel like your heart is breaking. Even when I haven’t experienced something, it doesn’t mean that I haven’t felt it before. How are you able to empathize so well with feelings of heartbreak then? The crazy part is that I’ve never been in a relationship or had my heart broken. I took experiences from multiple people, friendships and any feelings I’ve had in the past. I had written down: “I don’t really care how bad it hurts because you broke me first,” and shaped it into a toxic relationship story. I was in an emotional mood that day but had a lot of ideas going through my head. I wrote it right before the pandemic hit - it was my last in person writing session. How did “You Broke Me First” come together? My Top 10: Tate McRae Lists Her 10 Favorite Songs to Dance To in 2020 Though McRae has come a long way since her YouTube days, this year’s quarantine has felt like “going back to roots” as she keeps busy with songwriting, collaborating with other artists, and - like many other Gen Z-ers - TikTok.īelow, Tate McRae talks growing up with social media, what it’s like to be an emerging artist during a touring shutdown and how she writes about heartbreak - despite never having her heart broken. She performed the track a month later on Jimmy Kimmel Live! for her late-night TV debut. In September, the classically trained dancer paired the hit with electric choreography at this year’s pre-show for the MTV Video Music Awards. All the while, McRae has been back home in her native Canada and “playing on my OG piano that I played when I first started,” she says.Įven amid the pandemic, the Calgary-bred teen - who signed to RCA Records in Jan. Four years later, the 17-year-old has landed her first charting single on the Billboard Hot 100, thanks to the melancholic “You Broke Me First.”Īfter initially releasing the song in April, it has slowly gained popularity across the United States, with the track most recently reaching a new No. While we were all trying to make casual eye contact with our crushes in middle school, Tate McRae wrote a song about her crush and uploaded it to YouTube.
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