Source : PERTHNOW NEWS
Tate McRae has found fame to be “scary and overwhelming” at times.
The 22-year-old pop star has enjoyed a meteoric rise in recent years, but Tate admits that she still struggles with the pressures of fame and success.
Asked if she’s ever felt misunderstood by the public, Tate told Billboard: “So many different ways.
“As a woman, you just have to understand that you’re constantly going to be under a microscope, and sometimes that’s a really scary and overwhelming feeling. But on the optimistic side of that, with scrutiny and opinions and people’s perceptions of you, it just leads to a lot of growth and doubling down on who you are.
“I could say that people’s comments don’t affect me, but of course they do. I’m a girl. I have emotions and feelings and insecurities. It sucks to have people commenting on your body or commenting on who you are or having perceptions that are completely off.
“But for me, I’m just here to make art. Trying to explain yourself is a game that I can never win.”
Tate began her career as a dancer, before she switched her focus towards making music.
And the chart-topping star admits to having a “very specific vision” at the outset of her music career.
Tate – who released her debut album, I Used to Think I Could Fly, in 2022 – shared: “I had a very specific vision. I remember being like, ‘I want to be a pop star. I want Sean Bankhead. I want to write over this tempo. I want to do it in a hockey rink. I want this to be the aesthetic.’ I could see it all in my brain.
“It was about collecting the right people around me to make it a reality. Sometimes you get signs and messages on where you’re supposed to go in life, and you ignore it. And then finally, it becomes the most piercing feeling in your gut, and you wake up and you’re like, ‘All right. No more time to waste.'”
