It’s a kind of youthful optimism in a way: Knowing you can ruin everything because nothing is that fragile yet, and the songs make her rapt audience relate to what it feels like to be that age, too. Her lyrics play between the tension of heartbreaking tell-all’s on love, relationships, boys, and teenage life, while simultaneously saying “fuck it” to all of it and everything in between. This duality of emotion is something McRae is very good at, and it’s best profiled in the music and, in particular, her songwriting.
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“I’m not perfect at all-I make mistakes every single day,” she says, “and I’m not good at a lot of stuff, but when it comes to music and my writing, that’s where I feel like I can be most like me, and where I feel most comfortable sharing about myself.” It feels brave-not only for a new musician on the rise, but for a young woman in the very public eye. At the same time, her openness is also equally enviable to the rest of us. Even the fact it’s all written in lowercase feels intentionally honest, and at only 17-years-old it’s such a cultivated sense of self she’s sharing with the world that it can’t help but feel surprising given her youth.
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Written in a stream of raw conscious truths, McRae spills on everything she is and isn’t sharing intimate detail of what makes her, her. i write songs because it’s all of the things I never got to say. care too much, but can also not care at all. If you were to jump on the YouTube channel of Canadian pop singer-songwriter sensation Tate McRae, what might catch you first is not the over 3 million subscribers or cache of choreographed music videos, but instead, somewhat randomly, her About page: