Who is Tate McRae? The ‘Britney Spears of this generation’ will be in Lotto Arena tonight

Anyone who has ever set up commercial radio stations knows Tate McRae’s best-known tunes. Anyone who ever scrolls on TikTok may be fed up with them. The Canadian pop princess’ career really takes off when she starts sharing her music on the app in 2020. The single You Broke Me First goes viral and is picked up by radio stations. The song about heartbreak ends up in fourth place in our Ultratop 50. Tate – her real name is Tatum – may be barely sixteen years old, but she has already released thirteen singles.

Her very young age is one of the reasons why McRae is compared to Britney Spears. She also scored her first mega hit at the age of 16. Spears can be seen in the children’s program when she was 13 The Mickey Mouse ClubTate competes in the American at the same age So You Think You Can Dance. She comes third. From then on she gained a certain fame in the US and released music, becoming a star three years later.

The new Britney

After the TikTok breakthrough, McRae is marketing herself as a better Billie Eilish. She is a sad teenager who is angry at the world and especially at that one boy who broke her heart. Singles like She’s All I Wanna Be and Chaotic fit perfectly into that picture. “Stupid boy makes me so sad”, she sings full of self-pity.

At the end of 2023 she will choose a new artistic direction. The singer releases the single in September, not long after her twentieth birthday Greedy out. An up-tempo pop song pur sang. The sad teenager is gone, Tate has become a twenty-something with the moves of Britney and the sex appeal of Christina. “Mine pop girl era starts,” she writes on TikTok. “I would like myself too,” she sings with attitude. Greedy becomes Tate’s first number one hit.

The Canadian decides to use the dancing talent that brought her so far So You Think You Can Dance to deploy. Her appearances at Saturday Night Live and at the Billboard Music Awards in November are a turning point. The internet is calling the singer ‘the new Britney’ and ‘Gen Z’s Britney Spears’. Her dance style is very reminiscent of the pop princess of the Nillies. Fluid movements, big facial expressions and technical precision, always in combination with a bare stomach. McRae admits she draws inspiration from Britney’s past performances and music videos. “Nobody ever did it like them,” he says.

McRae makes what she learned from Spears more ‘Gen Z’ and pours an extra spicy sauce on it. Fortunately, in 2024, a female pop star will no longer be slutshamed as in the early 2000s. Tate also does not have to insist that she remains a virgin until marriage, like Britney did back then.

Pop Prince

Tate is also well on his way to succeeding Spears in terms of love. Because a pop princess prefers to be seen on the arm of another pop star, such as Britney and Justin Timberlake. Since January, rumors have been circulating about a relationship between Tate McRae and The Kid Laroi. The two were spotted holding hands several times. The Australian artist is the perfect match on paper. He scored a world hit with the song in 2021 Stay, along with Justin Bieber. The Kid Laroi is twenty years old, just like Tate, and very popular with the young generation. When they break up, both can score with songs about the breakup. Win win.

The Lotto Arena is the eighth stop in the Canadian pop star’s world tour, which kicked off on April 17 and continues until November. Two years ago she was singing in front of a thousand people in Trix. Tate McRae will perform no fewer than 58 performances in Europe, Australia and North America during her tour. Let’s hope that this pop princess is better supported than her predecessor.