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September 25, 2024 11 mins

Why did it take Tate McRae a whole year to record her new single? Listen back to the full interview with Ryan Seacrest for the whole story and much, much more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Sizza Saturn one two point seven Kiss FM in Los Angeles.
So much happened during that song. Sistney complimented Tape mcray
on her scent. Now she's here with us in studio
right now.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
It's a nice scent.

Speaker 3 (00:12):
Thank you so much.

Speaker 1 (00:15):
And and also Sydney said, thank you for making this
work and we do appreciate that. I do want to
say that when an artist comes in at this hour
of the morning, it's not unnoticed.

Speaker 3 (00:25):
Yeah, thank you.

Speaker 1 (00:27):
Artist hours, like artist hours are not the same hours
as we keep, and I think that's fair to say so,
just in terms of artist hours, like the Tate mcray hours.
Do you generally function better when the sun goes down?

Speaker 4 (00:42):
Yeah, for sure, Like morning generally takes a sec for
the brain to turn only it takes.

Speaker 2 (00:50):
Do you caffeinate? Do you drink coffee?

Speaker 3 (00:52):
Right? Yeah? Of course, lots of coffee.

Speaker 2 (00:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (00:55):
And what is the average time that you wind down
in the evening if you have a show.

Speaker 2 (00:59):
I'm sure it's pretty late, right, yeah, I.

Speaker 4 (01:01):
Mean our shows end at like ten thirty or something,
so I mean after you do a show, I'm.

Speaker 3 (01:05):
Up till like four yeah?

Speaker 5 (01:07):
Really?

Speaker 4 (01:08):
Yeah, My like your body's so physically exhausted, but you're
like mentally like awake for so long.

Speaker 1 (01:13):
So Lenny Kravitz, he does a show and then he
facetimes his trainer like one or two in the morning,
and he works out before he goes to bed.

Speaker 3 (01:21):
WHOA could never be me?

Speaker 1 (01:27):
What about Postmates? Like do you ever do you ever
order food in those hours?

Speaker 4 (01:32):
I mean sometimes, like we've like after show food it
like it really really depends, but I usually just like
straight to the bus, like shower and try to force yourself.

Speaker 1 (01:42):
We lived your life tape essentially at our Ihear Radio
music festival the other day, we didn't finish work till midnight,
and I found myself so hungry.

Speaker 2 (01:51):
Yes, all I could do, all I wanted to do
is order food. Bad for me.

Speaker 1 (01:55):
I know.

Speaker 4 (01:55):
That's the problem is when you finish something and you
also just feel like you're like I just.

Speaker 3 (01:58):
Just a show.

Speaker 4 (01:59):
Yeah, problem is like you do that nine times, so yeah,
it'll offset the workout of the show.

Speaker 1 (02:08):
So Sysney, you're exposed to a lot of the music
before it hits and you have a chance to meet
a lot of the artists, as we all do. But
you know, you worked in the music division of the company. Yes,
Sate McGray broke out years ago, and she continues to evolve.

Speaker 2 (02:22):
What do you like? What do you see?

Speaker 1 (02:24):
As as the secret sauce here because something special is
happening and I want to ask you tape because its
awkward for you to answer.

Speaker 2 (02:28):
No, what do you see?

Speaker 6 (02:30):
And something special is happening? And this song right now,
I mean the first listen, I was like, oh, yeah,
it's okay. I'm okay, Yeah, it's okay, I'm okay. You
feel it, you know it's gonna be a hit. But
I saw you at very small club. Was it earlier
this year? Was it Peppermint Club? I believe, yes, for
your album release party? Okay and her performing that night,

(02:51):
and I told her because I talked to her backstage afterwards.
I was like, this is your year, like I I've felt.

Speaker 3 (02:59):
It right really, yeah you remember that?

Speaker 2 (03:01):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (03:01):
I do.

Speaker 2 (03:02):
I give me chill.

Speaker 6 (03:02):
It's your stage presence, it's your just you're you continue
to evolve like Ryan said, and and you're the triple threat.
I mean, you can dance, sing, you do it all
on stage.

Speaker 3 (03:12):
Girl, Oh thank you. I appreciate that.

Speaker 4 (03:14):
Now the dancing is so wild that hits on a
whole nother level.

Speaker 2 (03:18):
Like I saw the music video. I saw the music video.
It's okay, I'm okay.

Speaker 1 (03:22):
Yeah, I mean it's it's it's choreographed, definitely choreographed. But
I actually think that I'm curious to know, like it's okay,
I'm okay, what other titles that could have been, like
I've been there, go ahead, good luck to survive? You know,
like what what other titles that song could have been?
So many things, things we can't say on the Airtha, Yeah,
I mean so many things.

Speaker 3 (03:43):
I don't know. That felt like the most like obvious.

Speaker 2 (03:46):
When did you write it?

Speaker 3 (03:47):
Honestly?

Speaker 4 (03:47):
Okay, I started this, started that song last year in
Sweden and we just had like the chorus and then
it wasn't until like a year later that I felt
like it like related to me at this Like at
that point in time, I was just like, now now
I can finish this, and then interesting, Yeah, Honestly, music
comes around like that, like sometimes like beats or things
that you hear sonically like don't hit you at one

(04:08):
point and then like a year later it can be like,
oh wow, I'm obsessed with this.

Speaker 2 (04:11):
Now do you write the chorus first? Generally, it depends.

Speaker 4 (04:15):
Like sometimes I do try to get the chorus out
first to just like figure out what the song's about,
and then you can kind of like grow from there.

Speaker 1 (04:23):
I remember Ryan Teter was telling me that he always
he's learned to always go to the chorus first because
if he writes verses and he can' get the course,
it's a waste of time.

Speaker 4 (04:29):
Well exactly, I mean that's what he taught me because
I used to write songs on my piano from the
beginning to the end, and like, if I had a chorus,
I'm like, whoa, you know what I mean, Like, but
he eats a waste, right, Yeah, I mean he really
pushes me to make sure you get the chorus first
because he's like, that's the most important part of the song.

Speaker 1 (04:47):
Tate McRae, right here, the new song. It's okay, I'm okay,
let's play it. Let's come back to take a quick break,
we'll come back. We'll play that next one or two
point seven Kiss FM. Hang on, just click him away
from him, click him away, so you gotta do Tate

(05:07):
mcray there, it's okay, I'm okay, one of two point
seven Kiss FM. But at the base to the start
of that song. I know, it's so my neighbor. It's
so good. Sometimes I like to over base my system anyway,
but that's really.

Speaker 3 (05:20):
Gonna you know my dad does that too.

Speaker 2 (05:22):
Yeah, well I appreciate that a lot of talent. That
was no, it's fine. He went to the high school
the same. Yeah, you really got to kick.

Speaker 4 (05:38):
Honestly, it was just so innocent.

Speaker 3 (05:43):
You get here, he's not here.

Speaker 4 (05:45):
My dad does this thing where like he'll get into
like every car I own and he'll just like turn
the basic plus seven and then minus and I'm just like,
I can't hear the song.

Speaker 2 (05:54):
Travel down based up that that was our generation tape
that did the generational move.

Speaker 1 (05:59):
And we'd have to carry our stereos out of the car.
We pull our Alpine stereo out of the dashboard and
carry it with us like a little person.

Speaker 6 (06:06):
Yeah, Like it was cool when I was in high school.
It's cool to have subwarfers in your trunk right like
and have that extra.

Speaker 1 (06:12):
Base just annoy the intersection. But so tate, It's okay,
I'm okay, love. I mean, it's just so catchy. It's
it's such a it's lyrically, it's so fun. It's so
we we get you get it the second you hear
it at first. But now, what if you are the
other girl and you hear that song? What does that
do to you?

Speaker 4 (06:33):
Um?

Speaker 3 (06:34):
I mean I haven't really.

Speaker 2 (06:38):
You know, there's.

Speaker 1 (06:41):
Sides to that story, like there is somebody that's going
to receive that or feel that, whether typothetical or not right.
But like if you are the other person and you
hear that, do you stay with the dude or do
you blow the guy off?

Speaker 3 (06:52):
I don't know. I mean if I heard that, be
it like rough?

Speaker 4 (06:56):
I don't know. I think it's it's interesting. It's such
it's so funny because when I do actually listen to
the song, like.

Speaker 3 (07:01):
It is a very like sassy song.

Speaker 4 (07:04):
Yeah, And honestly, all of it was like triggered by
this like alter ego that I have on stage, Like
I was touring all year long, and I like, when
I get on stage, I'm just like a completely different
person than how I am actually in real life. So
a lot of this was written on the road, like
on the tour bus. So it's like funny exactly. Yeah,
I feel like I kind of tapped into more of

(07:24):
like a like my alter ego was writing this a
little bit more than like Tate. So I feel like
it definitely is something that I'm like, well whenever I
hear it, even when you hear it back too, right,
Yeah of course, I mean yeah, if I was on
the grad like, well, that sucks, like but yeah, but yeah,
a lot of I feel like a lot of it
was was talked about from my from the other side

(07:45):
of my brain.

Speaker 3 (07:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (07:46):
So Tate McCray the spirited version of her on stage,
and before that, you do your sound checks, and you
also do a lot of covers. I have a couple
of the covers here from your sound checks. This is
a birds of a Feather, I said, say.

Speaker 5 (08:04):
I wasn't the leather belovable? It's even.

Speaker 1 (08:18):
So that's sound check before you go out, and there
you have some people watch. I guess like winners get
to come watch that.

Speaker 4 (08:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (08:23):
I have, like there's like two hundred people that come in.

Speaker 2 (08:26):
Oh yeah, I just do like this.

Speaker 4 (08:28):
I do like covers, and I do like original songs,
which kind of like talk. But yeah, people always get
so mad at me because I like picked the cover
like the day of and I was reading the lyrics songs.

Speaker 2 (08:40):
Performance just like season right now reading this, So.

Speaker 3 (08:48):
You she forgot the exist.

Speaker 2 (08:52):
That's a great song.

Speaker 5 (08:54):
I just sacked.

Speaker 1 (09:02):
So when you're with those two hundred people at sound check,
what did they most commonly ask you?

Speaker 3 (09:08):
A lot? Like everything?

Speaker 4 (09:10):
They kind of talk about, like my everyday life, what
I do on tour, like what I watch on tour.
It's very like chill, like we just talk like we're
best friends.

Speaker 2 (09:18):
Are you watching anything? Were always talking about what we're
watching here?

Speaker 4 (09:21):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (09:23):
What did I just finished? Finished Severns? Okay, you guys
such a good show.

Speaker 4 (09:30):
Yeah. My I'm trying to watch Succession, but oh I
can't get into.

Speaker 2 (09:36):
I can't get into it either. I'm with you.

Speaker 3 (09:38):
It's like, I don't know what it is. I really like.
My dad was like, oh, it's like somewhat close to
like suits and I love.

Speaker 1 (09:44):
I love suits and I love the same stuff. Shout
out to Tom Todd mcray a little love right now.

Speaker 2 (09:51):
We have the same taste and she's gonna free Todd
McGray shouting it out. My brother.

Speaker 5 (09:58):
I didn't know it.

Speaker 2 (10:00):
Looking to go grab a beer with Todd McGray.

Speaker 1 (10:03):
Honestly, what so we're we're just talking about tell me lies,
we're talking about the Monsters. Ryan Murphy did Monsters was
based on a true story which is on Netflix.

Speaker 2 (10:14):
We've got our whole list, Tate mcray, What about an album?

Speaker 1 (10:18):
So that's the other thing. I'm sure people are asking you.
They hear this music and they're wondering, like, what what's
happening with the collection of songs?

Speaker 4 (10:23):
Right, I'm definitely I've written so many songs this year,
like in between tour. We're definitely working towards something. Yeah,
I'm excited. Lots of music I'm sitting on right now,
which I'm really pumped about.

Speaker 2 (10:37):
How many tracks would you put on an album?

Speaker 3 (10:40):
It?

Speaker 4 (10:40):
Honestly, it really depends. I always say I want to
do like a ten track album and then it never
ends up being a track album because it's just hard
to like finish a story with ten tracks, like right, yeah,
But though that's like the ideals, I'm like, if I
could have a beautiful ten track album, that would be great.

Speaker 1 (10:56):
Well, you came in early this morning, Tate McCray. We're
so grateful. We love seeing you any time. You're welcome
all the time. What sound did your alarm make to
wake you up to be here today? I don't know.

Speaker 3 (11:07):
Mine's kind of like nice and calm and cute, Like.

Speaker 2 (11:11):
Is it like church bells?

Speaker 1 (11:13):
Probably, it's like spay church relaxing, Sisney, what woke you up?

Speaker 6 (11:18):
That's very similar. Like it's like one that kind of
gets louder and louder and louder.

Speaker 3 (11:22):
It's like a little piano.

Speaker 2 (11:24):
Yeah, because it's not so harsh you have a harsh
Oh no, So great to see it.

Speaker 1 (11:36):
Thanks for comment. Mcray here it's okay, I'm okay. It's
out now and more music coming soon. We heard chaparon
Is on Todd McCray for you
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