March 3, 2025 • 29 mins
Tate McRae joined JoJo Wright on this week's iHeartRadio Countdown to talk about her new album, touring & more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, guys, let's do this. What up? It's Jojo
on the radio. This is the iHeart Radio can down.
Tate McCrae is here. Tate, huge, congrats. I mean, this
is I don't know what when you were a kid
like growing up and wanted wanting to do this? Yeah,
is it's that thing? It's happening now. Is it kind
of what you expected? Is this kind of what you
had visioned in your head? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (00:19):
I keep having these like Pintrey moments where I just
feel so grateful and I love the people around me.
It's crazy to perform in a place like the Forum
that I think I've just been like manifesting and thinking
of my whole life. So lots of moments where I'm
just like, don't forget this feeling, because it's like, take
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my dreams.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
That's everything I've ever wanted.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
I guess you can get wrapped up in the work
because you're so busy, but at the same time you've
dreamed of Who hasn't dreamed of being a pop star? Yeah,
you're freaking doing this. Jesus, we got lost to chat
music life. All the goods to the album, obviously. Tate
McCray is here on with the countdown, Let's do it.
This is song number twenty. That was song number nineteen
(01:41):
this week on the iHeart Radio Cana Whatep's joke you
on the radio tape McCrae is he here tape? Before
I even get to the specifics of the album specific
so close to what why the title?
Speaker 2 (01:53):
It honestly just felt like the perfect description of my
life the past year.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
I felt like that was a question.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
I was just asking myself a lot, was you know,
what's this for? What does the finish line look like?
You know, you can make all these goals, you can
have all these expectations for yourself, and you can always
want more of yourself, right, And I think especially in
this career, it's just like never ending, like you could
work every second if you really wanted to. It's like
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it's more or less just figuring out, like when do
you feel satisfied and when do you feel fulfilled? And
as a twenty one year old girl, that was just
a question. I was like, what is this for? Like
when am I going to feel satisfied with myself? And
like why do I do all this writing and why
do I know this performing? And I think that was
just a lot of things I was feeling being on
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the road all year and writing a lot.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
It's so close to what kind of a weird way
of saying, enjoy the enjoy the journey, not just the destination.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Is that Yeah, it means fall in love with the
process because the destination. Yeah, because the destination doesn't really
mean anything because you get there and it's so quick
and it's gone, and you're like, well, I was waiting
for this moment and then it just happened, and now
I have to look to my next moment. So I
think it's just falling in love with the people you're around,
the job that you're doing, and falling in love with
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yourself too, and being happy with how you walk around
this world.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
All right, Taate McCrae is here, all with the condown,
Let's go. This is song number eighteen. All right, guys,
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we're back. It's Joe joined the radio. This is the
iHeart Radio canon. Tate McCrae is here, so close to
what of course it's out, Tate, finish this sentence. This album, yeah,
one of those things. This album is important to me
because blank, oh that's so long.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Come on, This album is important to me because.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Because I got nothing else to talk about.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Yeah, I don't know, it's important to me because I mean,
it's my it's my life. It's honestly just situations I
go through in my life. I write it down, I
find perspective on it. And I felt like this album
gave me a lot of clarity as myself as a person.
I was like, Oh, that's what I've been thinking of
all year, that's what I've been struggling with all year.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
And it's like a good Like it's.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Therapy, right, because so many artists are writers. Look at
I guess it's it is it's therapeutic or therapy. I
guess it's super therapeutic. All right. Back to the countdown.
Time for an extra track. This is Jonah Murray slow Motion.
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That was song number seventeen this week on the iHeart
Radio Countdown. What Up? It's joke you on the radio tape.
McCray is here, Tate what song? And there's a reason
I'm asking this what song? Almost didn't make the album
for whatever reason. And the reason I asked this is
a lot of times this song for unknown reasons. To me,
it's the experiment, it's still in process. Here that those
songs typically become big. I don't know why, like the
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song that I didn't feel like it, I didn't want
to put it on it sure enough.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Yeah, well, I have a couple of songs that didn't
make the album, but one called Means I Care made
it just to the end. I wrote Blood on my
Hands and like I do within the last two weeks
of Wow making the album in New York, and I
think a lot of lyrics, especially in Purple Ace bra
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I tried to change because I was like, maybe this
is too crazy, and then I reverted back to the original
and I was like, you know what, We're just gonna
go for it and hopefully people interpret it the right way.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
You watch some of those songs you just mentioned. Fans
will take take them and run with them or whatever.
They will become big. It's just it's an experiment that
I'm doing, and I'm trying to figure out why these
last second songs always seem to kind of have they
do something. You know.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Yeah, I think it's because when you're as an artist,
when you're not overthinking it and the pressure's off, you're
finally just like here, this is just like something I
like that I personally like that might be it.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Yeah, the experiment to be continued. Tate McCray is here
on with the countdown. Let's do it. This is song
number sixteen. That was song number fifteen this week on
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the iHeart Radio Countdown. What Up is Jojo? On the
radio tape. Mcraee here, Tate sports Car. This track is
blown up on you obviously, anything any backstory on this
track we need to know or should I just hit
the red blinking button and just go?
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Well, I've kind of said this, but it was inspired
by the Ying Ying Twins, the Whisper song and Yeah,
which is crazy and I can't believe we did it
risk but it is fun.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Well, congrats on this track among them things. All right,
here we go Tate McCray sports car. Check this on
the iHeart Radio Countdown. There it is Tate McCray sports
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Car number fourteen this week on iHeartRadio Countdown. What Up
Is Joe? Joined the radio tape. McCrae is here, Ted,
You're about to go on this crazy tour. And when
I say the word war the phrase world tour, I
mean this is a world tour, mispossessive tour. Why the
title the title of the tour and a song as well, of.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Course, you know, well, it's just it's the obviously the
first talk on the album, mispossessive, and I just feel
like it's a very perfect way of describing this era,
like very sexy and very feminine. And that was one
of the first songs I wrote off for this album,
and that I love the sounds and sonics of So that's.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Why it's tracked number one on the album. I'm guessing
you enjoy road life.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
I do really love the stage.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
You love the stage, but everything that comes with it good.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Yeah, you kind of have to really make sure that
your your bus feels good. You like light candles, you
make your bed. The second things get gross on the road,
like you don't clean up or like, that's when it's
not fun to be like in a bus, but when
you keep it clean and cute and girly, it's fun.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
And can you sleep like on a like I can
fall like I recall as a kid the car, you know, yeah,
and you just fall asleep in the moving car. I'm
guessing the bus is like that on steroids, right, I.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Sleep like a baby on the bus.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
My mom used to at night, like make me fall
asleep in the car because I just need movement and noise,
so it helps.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
All right, Morver Tate McCray coming up in just a
few minutes, but first time for an extra track. This
is do Chi. Oh my god, I love this track.
The Nile is a river. All right, guys were back.
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It's Jojo on the radio. This is the iHeart Radio Countdown.
Tate McCray is here. Tate, how was it working with?
And I'll drop a couple of names on you. I'm
missing several, but Ryan, Tedd, Julia, Michaels, I think Amy
Allen among other people. You wrote or co wrote every
song on this album with. You know some of those
people I just mentioned. What was it like working with them?
What'd you any takeaways you know from that those experiences?
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I know, Tedtror's talking to me about you before and
he loves you.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
I mean, yeah, they're my family now. I like Julia
Namy feel like my older sisters that I feel like
I can talk to about anything. Teddor is just like
such a safe place for me creating music. We're so
close now. I mean, that man's a genius. He's like
got seventy million things in his brain at once, and
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you know, at the end of the day, it's like,
I just feel very blessed and lucky to work with
people have so much knowledge and music and can teach
me because I feel like all it's doing is helping
me become a better songwriter. And it's cool to just
get different perspectives.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Dude. Ryan Tedder told me once not to you know,
get off the rails too much, but he told me
once that he's sang apologized so many times. He's actually
been on stage while singing apologize, Yeah, writing another song
in his head.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
Okay, well that is I mean, who does that.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Right if he's lying to me or not, But like
that now you know.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
What that that tracks?
Speaker 1 (12:07):
I feel.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
I feel like that's how he is.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
I wonder if that you're like after you've sing like,
let's say one of your tracks, you you've sang it
so many times. Yeah, it's almost like and not that
you're not feeling it on stage, but it's almost like
your muscle memory. Yeah you could. Maybe. I'm sure you're
thinking of other things too, Like you're full on rocking
out on stage, but you're thinking like what I want
to eat for dinner? You know, as you're just killing
it on stage totally.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
I mean what, It's really interesting because after I'm been
writing a lot and finishing an album, the second I
get back into rehearsals, because I have so many like
melodies in my head, I just like never want to
sing the real melody of the song. I just want
to sing different melodies. My Jeam's like, can you sing
like maybe the chorus or something, just because I want
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to keep writing melodies.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
So it's always funny like getting back in the rehearsal.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Oh Man, Tate McCray is here on with the cowdown,
Let's go. This is song number thirteen. That was song
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number twelve this week on the I hear radio Canna,
What upis joke? You? On the radio tape McCrae is
here so close to what obviously it is out impossible
question tape. Favorite lyric from this album, Uh, it's impossible.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
I feel like I've said this a couple of times now.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
But there's the line in Nostalgia, which finishes up the
album goes, Okay, so I'm gonna read you a really
long time, right, he goes, And I bite my tongue
ten times a day. Half swear to God, I might
just pray, and I got a lot to lose, so
I might as well lose it anyway.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
And I manifested.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
You would leave, so the day you did, I had
you beat three steps ahead of everything.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
Well, where does that come from?
Speaker 2 (14:19):
That's my favorite lyric, just because I do feel like
that's a very particular and specific thing, a way of
describing me as a person. I feel like, in order
to sometimes save myself from feeling too much, because I'm
a cancer and I feel literally the most anytime I
meet anybody, to like save myself, I'll sometimes just plan
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out the worst case scenario or envision someone already gone
so I can like preheal or something. And I think
that was an interesting way.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
To Are you inwards? Are you an overthinker?
Speaker 3 (14:54):
Huge overthinker? Of course I.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Am so with you on that. I can't. My brain
just goes And I've been reading, like are listening to
audio books on the overthinking, and I even overthink what
audiobook to listen to them. I'm overthinking? God? All right,
Taate mccray's hanging out. Before we get back to the numbers,
Time for an extra track. This is Pitbull now or Never?
(15:36):
All right? Guys, we're back. It's Jojo on the radio.
This is the iHeart Radio countdown tape. McCrae is here
so close to what is out earlier this year. I
mean this has happened to several artists. I know a
couple of friends that there's a week and you're like,
oh my god, what do I do? How did you handle?
And this happens more times than people think how did
you handle that? Because I'm guessing a part of you
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panic mode, maybe like oh damn, my music is out?
You know what? What was your reaction? How'd you handle it?
Speaker 2 (16:03):
The stress that comes over your body when like do
you just get a little notification You're like, holy, how
do they have this? Like? And also I think all
my images got leaked before, which the more concerning part
is like is.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
My eye cloud like that easy to hack? Like how
do they get this?
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Is that? How that that's how you trace it down?
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Is?
Speaker 3 (16:22):
I think?
Speaker 2 (16:22):
So I don't really know what's happening, and I need
to like lock down my phone. But I'm also just
like dad, like make sure you're not like using the eyecloud,
and like make sure you lock down your phone too.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
But because he has all my songs. I'm like, maybe
it was him, but.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Yeah, I mean, of course it's it's devastating because it's
completely out of your control. I think all I can
do is just do everything I can to make everything
perfect and make everything feel good to me.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
And when that happens, it's just like you lose all.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Control in the game, like you just it's gone. And
so I mean I literally was talking to right therapist
and I'm like, this is.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
Literally nothing I can do.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
It's just like except for a hope that my label
can take down these leaks as soon as possible, right,
because they were just like popping up and we're just
trying to like smack each one.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
But you know what, I know you wrote some more
tracks on top of that. At the end of the day,
it's it's working out. So Tate McCrae is here, am
with the countdown. Let's do it. This is song number eleven.
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That was song number ten this week on the I
Heart Radio Kanna What up? Its joke you on the
radio tape? McCrae's your tape kind of random, but uh,
there's a video floating of you and I'm sure you've
seen it of you predicting the score of the suit.
I mean, walk me through that video because I don't
I think that was filmed way before the Super Bowl.
But you predicted the exact two teams, exact score. How
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what was that all about?
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Okay, well, hey, I don't really know anything about football,
so this was maybe pure fluke, but I breaks it.
In twenty twenty three, they're just like, if the Eagles
were to make the Super Bowl again, what would you
think the score would be?
Speaker 3 (18:38):
And I was just like forty twenty.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Two of these stupid stickers on my face and these
videos go everywhere. I'm like, what, I have stickers on
my face on ESPN, Like that's really mortifying. But you know,
I do think I do have some like clairvoyant psychic abilities,
like I can usually see things before they happen, and
I like know when things that happened.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
So maybe it was like a little.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
I don't know, you know what next before the next
next year's Super Bowl, you gotta come by and we'll
just give it a shot, se see kind of what happens.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
The thing is, I don't even know the numbers of football,
Like I didn't even know like what range. Like I
initially I was like seventy. Yeah, I didn't really know
what the score would be.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
Well, what, I don't think you need to know if
you have a gift, Let's let's forget this music. Hey,
let's be a psychic exactly. Tate mccrazy here, back to
the countdown. This is song number nine. All right, guys,
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we're back to Jojo on the radio. This is the
iHeart Radio countdown. Tate McCrae is here so close to
what is out tour kicking off? You know, very you
know near future? Uh, you know, I love the paranormal tape.
We've talked about this many times. I won't get into
it now, but I do have a just a I
want to ask you a favor. This tour is about
to launch, and you're gonna stay in a lot of beautiful,
amazing hotels. One or more of these hotels is going
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to have a haunted room, a haunted floor, a haunted something.
That's just It's just that's how it is. Would you
ever for me, your friend Jojo, request the haunted room
and just stay there and.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Jojo Ate, I've actually on my rider, says no. Haunted
hotels does not it does I make I make my
tour manager search up haunted beside every tour hotel name?
Speaker 1 (20:45):
Did you tell me that last time? Thank you?
Speaker 3 (20:46):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Can you take that out?
Speaker 3 (20:49):
Come on? I am not I cannot, I will I have?
Speaker 2 (20:53):
It is too freaky like the dreams, the feelings is
just too freaky for me, like they always possess me.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
Okay, always in my room?
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Wow, okay, okay, let me throw it. Plan B. Is
there someone on your team that you like the least,
Have them stay in the haunting room.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
Yeah, throw them on the under the bus.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
All right, ta m crazy here back to the countdown.
Let's do it. This is song number eight. All right, guys,
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we're back as jojo on the radio. This is the
I Heart Radio Countdown. Tate McCrae is here. Tate, Uh,
how did being a uh? And I'm asking this because
my daughter and her friends, you know, they've been competitive
dancers since they were three. Oh cool, you've done this forever.
How did being a competitive dancer help you with this?
Because that's an intense world as well? This is intense.
Clearly what you're.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
Doing, it's super intense.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
I think.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
What I think I'm really grateful for is the drive
and motivation of being an athlete is like no other.
I think anyone who's in a sport who like gets
put in at a young age, can I think feel bad?
Is you just like lock in at six am every
day and lockout and you're just like, I'm gonna become
good at something. And I think that's a really good
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thing to instill in a kid at a young age.
But also because it was actually so intense where some
days were like breaking my body, like literally so so
intense that most of life actually feels like a little
later now because because it was so bad back then. Yeah,
like like sometimes I don't know if like like you
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like do forty hour weekends where you're dancing like forty
hours and you're like that is absurd for a thirteen.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
Year old to It's a job.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
It's a job.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
And so now when I have like a four hour shoot,
I'm like, be good like it is. I think it's
like good, like I've done the worst. So now feels
a little better.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
All right, take mccrace here, back to the countdown. Let's
do it. This is song number five. All right, guys,
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we're back. It's Jojo on the radio. This is the
iHeart Radio countdown. Tate McCrae's here another track from So
Close to What Revolving Door. Describe this, the track, the video,
the whole bit. Because you put this video out the
night the album came out. What do we need to know?
Speaker 2 (24:15):
I mean, this video is one of my favorite videos.
It's in this white room and there's fifteen doors to
represent all fifteen tracks on the album, and it's just
me and four girls and it gets pretty like eerie
by the end. It starts off as this like really
poised and typical music video set, and as the song
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goes on and the tension builds, you can tell that
it gets like eerie and we keep dancing and we
keep going and it gets really intense and like you
never stop, and I feel like it sometimes I want
to just describe this industry a little bit, just the
never ending stopping until you like break a little bit.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
I have a feeling this is gonna be one of
your signature songs and videos of your career, Like when
they think when people look back and like, do you
know like they want to imitate you, Like like if
SML does a bit about something like this video in
the future, you know it's it's so it's so good.
Tay mc crazy here once again. This is Revolve and
door check This That was song number two this week
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on the iHeart Radio Countdown. What Up's joked you on
the radio tape mccraey, it's your Tate, Uh so close
to what obviously is now curious family friends, you're inner circle,
the ones that've been with you forever. What's their reaction
to this album and the success you've had so far?
Speaker 2 (26:19):
I mean, they're all so supportive. I luckily have the
best family of all time. They are with me right now,
staying with me for this album week. My friends are
the best. A lot of my best friends on tour
with me just it's been great. They all are so
so I send them everything. They give me super honest opinions,
which is all I can ask for.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
They ever said like, dude, we don't like this Tate
all the time. What do you say to them, like
shut up?
Speaker 2 (26:43):
You?
Speaker 3 (26:44):
Depends on how strongly I feel about the song.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
Because if I really love it and I send it
to like my friend Finley and he hates it, I'm.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
Like, it's just like a heartbreaking thing. So but hope.
But most of the time we agree on.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Is the He's the breaking point with interest.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
Usually he is. If he doesn't like something, I get
a little concerned.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
Can I meet Philly someday?
Speaker 3 (27:06):
I want you need to meet Finley. He's he's the best,
all right.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Big Shot? That's Filly, all right. Take mccray's hanging out
all I'm with the countdown. Let's do it. This is
song number one there, it is number one this week
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on the I heard radio countdown. Hope you're feeling that
what up showed you on the radio. Tate McCray is
here a quick recap so close to what is out?
Check mispossessive tour. Uh, it's it's happening soon. Check Finley
is very important to Take's career. Check big Shot the finly.
What else do people need to know about Tate McCrae.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
Tate mcray, Oh my god, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
Final question. Then message to your fans.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
Oh that I love you guys so much. And it
always shocks me whenever you show up to my shows.
Every time, even last night, I was so shocked that
people showed up like this is very cool.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
I always forget that they're there.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
It's not that they're there, of course, I know there,
but I always get like I can't believe how many
I appreciate it. I'm just like, I feel very lucky
to see your faces again.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
It's very cool, is it still? Is it like it's
it's gotta be wild to go from you know, pre debut,
so to speak, with living a somewhat of a normal life,
to people screaming for you, strangers that don't you've never met. Yeah,
is that just wild? When you really think about it?
Speaker 3 (29:05):
It is wild. Sometimes I think.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
My brain one day it's like I think all gonna
hit me where I'm like, holy, this life is insane
because I get really bad imposter syndrome where I'll show
up to an event or show up to a show
and be like, oh, we set all this up and
no one's going to show up, and then people show
up and I'm like whoa, So.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
I think it it. Yeah, it is always crazy.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
I mean coming from like Calgary, Alberta and you know,
just trying to be a singer out there, which felt
like crazy to like be out doing this now as
my job.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
Just feel very lucky. Take congrats on everything.
Speaker 3 (29:43):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
At the end of every interview, fist bumped to make
it official, Give me a lot of hell yeah,
All right, guys, let's do this. What up? It's Jojo
on the radio. This is the iHeart Radio can down.
Tate McCrae is here. Tate, huge, congrats. I mean, this
is I don't know what when you were a kid
like growing up and wanted wanting to do this? Yeah,
is it's that thing? It's happening now. Is it kind
of what you expected? Is this kind of what you
had visioned in your head? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (00:19):
I keep having these like Pintrey moments where I just
feel so grateful and I love the people around me.
It's crazy to perform in a place like the Forum
that I think I've just been like manifesting and thinking
of my whole life. So lots of moments where I'm
just like, don't forget this feeling, because it's like, take
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my dreams.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
That's everything I've ever wanted.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
I guess you can get wrapped up in the work
because you're so busy, but at the same time you've
dreamed of Who hasn't dreamed of being a pop star? Yeah,
you're freaking doing this. Jesus, we got lost to chat
music life. All the goods to the album, obviously. Tate
McCray is here on with the countdown, Let's do it.
This is song number twenty. That was song number nineteen
(01:41):
this week on the iHeart Radio Cana Whatep's joke you
on the radio tape McCrae is he here tape? Before
I even get to the specifics of the album specific
so close to what why the title?
Speaker 2 (01:53):
It honestly just felt like the perfect description of my
life the past year.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
I felt like that was a question.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
I was just asking myself a lot, was you know,
what's this for? What does the finish line look like?
You know, you can make all these goals, you can
have all these expectations for yourself, and you can always
want more of yourself, right, And I think especially in
this career, it's just like never ending, like you could
work every second if you really wanted to. It's like
(02:25):
it's more or less just figuring out, like when do
you feel satisfied and when do you feel fulfilled? And
as a twenty one year old girl, that was just
a question. I was like, what is this for? Like
when am I going to feel satisfied with myself? And
like why do I do all this writing and why
do I know this performing? And I think that was
just a lot of things I was feeling being on
(02:45):
the road all year and writing a lot.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
It's so close to what kind of a weird way
of saying, enjoy the enjoy the journey, not just the destination.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Is that Yeah, it means fall in love with the
process because the destination. Yeah, because the destination doesn't really
mean anything because you get there and it's so quick
and it's gone, and you're like, well, I was waiting
for this moment and then it just happened, and now
I have to look to my next moment. So I
think it's just falling in love with the people you're around,
the job that you're doing, and falling in love with
(03:16):
yourself too, and being happy with how you walk around
this world.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
All right, Taate McCrae is here, all with the condown,
Let's go. This is song number eighteen. All right, guys,
(03:59):
we're back. It's Joe joined the radio. This is the
iHeart Radio canon. Tate McCrae is here, so close to
what of course it's out, Tate, finish this sentence. This album, yeah,
one of those things. This album is important to me
because blank, oh that's so long.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Come on, This album is important to me because.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Because I got nothing else to talk about.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Yeah, I don't know, it's important to me because I mean,
it's my it's my life. It's honestly just situations I
go through in my life. I write it down, I
find perspective on it. And I felt like this album
gave me a lot of clarity as myself as a person.
I was like, Oh, that's what I've been thinking of
all year, that's what I've been struggling with all year.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
And it's like a good Like it's.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Therapy, right, because so many artists are writers. Look at
I guess it's it is it's therapeutic or therapy. I
guess it's super therapeutic. All right. Back to the countdown.
Time for an extra track. This is Jonah Murray slow Motion.
(05:36):
That was song number seventeen this week on the iHeart
Radio Countdown. What Up? It's joke you on the radio tape.
McCray is here, Tate what song? And there's a reason
I'm asking this what song? Almost didn't make the album
for whatever reason. And the reason I asked this is
a lot of times this song for unknown reasons. To me,
it's the experiment, it's still in process. Here that those
songs typically become big. I don't know why, like the
(05:58):
song that I didn't feel like it, I didn't want
to put it on it sure enough.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Yeah, well, I have a couple of songs that didn't
make the album, but one called Means I Care made
it just to the end. I wrote Blood on my
Hands and like I do within the last two weeks
of Wow making the album in New York, and I
think a lot of lyrics, especially in Purple Ace bra
(06:23):
I tried to change because I was like, maybe this
is too crazy, and then I reverted back to the original
and I was like, you know what, We're just gonna
go for it and hopefully people interpret it the right way.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
You watch some of those songs you just mentioned. Fans
will take take them and run with them or whatever.
They will become big. It's just it's an experiment that
I'm doing, and I'm trying to figure out why these
last second songs always seem to kind of have they
do something. You know.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Yeah, I think it's because when you're as an artist,
when you're not overthinking it and the pressure's off, you're
finally just like here, this is just like something I
like that I personally like that might be it.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Yeah, the experiment to be continued. Tate McCray is here
on with the countdown. Let's do it. This is song
number sixteen. That was song number fifteen this week on
(07:37):
the iHeart Radio Countdown. What Up is Jojo? On the
radio tape. Mcraee here, Tate sports Car. This track is
blown up on you obviously, anything any backstory on this
track we need to know or should I just hit
the red blinking button and just go?
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Well, I've kind of said this, but it was inspired
by the Ying Ying Twins, the Whisper song and Yeah,
which is crazy and I can't believe we did it
risk but it is fun.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Well, congrats on this track among them things. All right,
here we go Tate McCray sports car. Check this on
the iHeart Radio Countdown. There it is Tate McCray sports
(08:43):
Car number fourteen this week on iHeartRadio Countdown. What Up
Is Joe? Joined the radio tape. McCrae is here, Ted,
You're about to go on this crazy tour. And when
I say the word war the phrase world tour, I
mean this is a world tour, mispossessive tour. Why the
title the title of the tour and a song as well, of.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Course, you know, well, it's just it's the obviously the
first talk on the album, mispossessive, and I just feel
like it's a very perfect way of describing this era,
like very sexy and very feminine. And that was one
of the first songs I wrote off for this album,
and that I love the sounds and sonics of So that's.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Why it's tracked number one on the album. I'm guessing
you enjoy road life.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
I do really love the stage.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
You love the stage, but everything that comes with it good.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Yeah, you kind of have to really make sure that
your your bus feels good. You like light candles, you
make your bed. The second things get gross on the road,
like you don't clean up or like, that's when it's
not fun to be like in a bus, but when
you keep it clean and cute and girly, it's fun.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
And can you sleep like on a like I can
fall like I recall as a kid the car, you know, yeah,
and you just fall asleep in the moving car. I'm
guessing the bus is like that on steroids, right, I.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Sleep like a baby on the bus.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
My mom used to at night, like make me fall
asleep in the car because I just need movement and noise,
so it helps.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
All right, Morver Tate McCray coming up in just a
few minutes, but first time for an extra track. This
is do Chi. Oh my god, I love this track.
The Nile is a river. All right, guys were back.
(10:53):
It's Jojo on the radio. This is the iHeart Radio Countdown.
Tate McCray is here. Tate, how was it working with?
And I'll drop a couple of names on you. I'm
missing several, but Ryan, Tedd, Julia, Michaels, I think Amy
Allen among other people. You wrote or co wrote every
song on this album with. You know some of those
people I just mentioned. What was it like working with them?
What'd you any takeaways you know from that those experiences?
(11:13):
I know, Tedtror's talking to me about you before and
he loves you.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
I mean, yeah, they're my family now. I like Julia
Namy feel like my older sisters that I feel like
I can talk to about anything. Teddor is just like
such a safe place for me creating music. We're so
close now. I mean, that man's a genius. He's like
got seventy million things in his brain at once, and
(11:36):
you know, at the end of the day, it's like,
I just feel very blessed and lucky to work with
people have so much knowledge and music and can teach
me because I feel like all it's doing is helping
me become a better songwriter. And it's cool to just
get different perspectives.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Dude. Ryan Tedder told me once not to you know,
get off the rails too much, but he told me
once that he's sang apologized so many times. He's actually
been on stage while singing apologize, Yeah, writing another song
in his head.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
Okay, well that is I mean, who does that.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Right if he's lying to me or not, But like
that now you know.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
What that that tracks?
Speaker 1 (12:07):
I feel.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
I feel like that's how he is.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
I wonder if that you're like after you've sing like,
let's say one of your tracks, you you've sang it
so many times. Yeah, it's almost like and not that
you're not feeling it on stage, but it's almost like
your muscle memory. Yeah you could. Maybe. I'm sure you're
thinking of other things too, Like you're full on rocking
out on stage, but you're thinking like what I want
to eat for dinner? You know, as you're just killing
it on stage totally.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
I mean what, It's really interesting because after I'm been
writing a lot and finishing an album, the second I
get back into rehearsals, because I have so many like
melodies in my head, I just like never want to
sing the real melody of the song. I just want
to sing different melodies. My Jeam's like, can you sing
like maybe the chorus or something, just because I want
(12:48):
to keep writing melodies.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
So it's always funny like getting back in the rehearsal.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Oh Man, Tate McCray is here on with the cowdown,
Let's go. This is song number thirteen. That was song
(13:37):
number twelve this week on the I hear radio Canna,
What upis joke? You? On the radio tape McCrae is
here so close to what obviously it is out impossible
question tape. Favorite lyric from this album, Uh, it's impossible.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
I feel like I've said this a couple of times now.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
But there's the line in Nostalgia, which finishes up the
album goes, Okay, so I'm gonna read you a really
long time, right, he goes, And I bite my tongue
ten times a day. Half swear to God, I might
just pray, and I got a lot to lose, so
I might as well lose it anyway.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
And I manifested.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
You would leave, so the day you did, I had
you beat three steps ahead of everything.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
Well, where does that come from?
Speaker 2 (14:19):
That's my favorite lyric, just because I do feel like
that's a very particular and specific thing, a way of
describing me as a person. I feel like, in order
to sometimes save myself from feeling too much, because I'm
a cancer and I feel literally the most anytime I
meet anybody, to like save myself, I'll sometimes just plan
(14:42):
out the worst case scenario or envision someone already gone
so I can like preheal or something. And I think
that was an interesting way.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
To Are you inwards? Are you an overthinker?
Speaker 3 (14:54):
Huge overthinker? Of course I.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Am so with you on that. I can't. My brain
just goes And I've been reading, like are listening to
audio books on the overthinking, and I even overthink what
audiobook to listen to them. I'm overthinking? God? All right,
Taate mccray's hanging out. Before we get back to the numbers,
Time for an extra track. This is Pitbull now or Never?
(15:36):
All right? Guys, we're back. It's Jojo on the radio.
This is the iHeart Radio countdown tape. McCrae is here
so close to what is out earlier this year. I
mean this has happened to several artists. I know a
couple of friends that there's a week and you're like,
oh my god, what do I do? How did you handle?
And this happens more times than people think how did
you handle that? Because I'm guessing a part of you
(15:56):
panic mode, maybe like oh damn, my music is out?
You know what? What was your reaction? How'd you handle it?
Speaker 2 (16:03):
The stress that comes over your body when like do
you just get a little notification You're like, holy, how
do they have this? Like? And also I think all
my images got leaked before, which the more concerning part
is like is.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
My eye cloud like that easy to hack? Like how
do they get this?
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Is that? How that that's how you trace it down?
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Is?
Speaker 3 (16:22):
I think?
Speaker 2 (16:22):
So I don't really know what's happening, and I need
to like lock down my phone. But I'm also just
like dad, like make sure you're not like using the eyecloud,
and like make sure you lock down your phone too.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
But because he has all my songs. I'm like, maybe
it was him, but.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Yeah, I mean, of course it's it's devastating because it's
completely out of your control. I think all I can
do is just do everything I can to make everything
perfect and make everything feel good to me.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
And when that happens, it's just like you lose all.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Control in the game, like you just it's gone. And
so I mean I literally was talking to right therapist
and I'm like, this is.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
Literally nothing I can do.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
It's just like except for a hope that my label
can take down these leaks as soon as possible, right,
because they were just like popping up and we're just
trying to like smack each one.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
But you know what, I know you wrote some more
tracks on top of that. At the end of the day,
it's it's working out. So Tate McCrae is here, am
with the countdown. Let's do it. This is song number eleven.
(18:01):
That was song number ten this week on the I
Heart Radio Kanna What up? Its joke you on the
radio tape? McCrae's your tape kind of random, but uh,
there's a video floating of you and I'm sure you've
seen it of you predicting the score of the suit.
I mean, walk me through that video because I don't
I think that was filmed way before the Super Bowl.
But you predicted the exact two teams, exact score. How
(18:23):
what was that all about?
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Okay, well, hey, I don't really know anything about football,
so this was maybe pure fluke, but I breaks it.
In twenty twenty three, they're just like, if the Eagles
were to make the Super Bowl again, what would you
think the score would be?
Speaker 3 (18:38):
And I was just like forty twenty.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Two of these stupid stickers on my face and these
videos go everywhere. I'm like, what, I have stickers on
my face on ESPN, Like that's really mortifying. But you know,
I do think I do have some like clairvoyant psychic abilities,
like I can usually see things before they happen, and
I like know when things that happened.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
So maybe it was like a little.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
I don't know, you know what next before the next
next year's Super Bowl, you gotta come by and we'll
just give it a shot, se see kind of what happens.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
The thing is, I don't even know the numbers of football,
Like I didn't even know like what range. Like I
initially I was like seventy. Yeah, I didn't really know
what the score would be.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
Well, what, I don't think you need to know if
you have a gift, Let's let's forget this music. Hey,
let's be a psychic exactly. Tate mccrazy here, back to
the countdown. This is song number nine. All right, guys,
(20:01):
we're back to Jojo on the radio. This is the
iHeart Radio countdown. Tate McCrae is here so close to
what is out tour kicking off? You know, very you
know near future? Uh, you know, I love the paranormal tape.
We've talked about this many times. I won't get into
it now, but I do have a just a I
want to ask you a favor. This tour is about
to launch, and you're gonna stay in a lot of beautiful,
amazing hotels. One or more of these hotels is going
(20:23):
to have a haunted room, a haunted floor, a haunted something.
That's just It's just that's how it is. Would you
ever for me, your friend Jojo, request the haunted room
and just stay there and.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Jojo Ate, I've actually on my rider, says no. Haunted
hotels does not it does I make I make my
tour manager search up haunted beside every tour hotel name?
Speaker 1 (20:45):
Did you tell me that last time? Thank you?
Speaker 3 (20:46):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Can you take that out?
Speaker 3 (20:49):
Come on? I am not I cannot, I will I have?
Speaker 2 (20:53):
It is too freaky like the dreams, the feelings is
just too freaky for me, like they always possess me.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
Okay, always in my room?
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Wow, okay, okay, let me throw it. Plan B. Is
there someone on your team that you like the least,
Have them stay in the haunting room.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
Yeah, throw them on the under the bus.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
All right, ta m crazy here back to the countdown.
Let's do it. This is song number eight. All right, guys,
(22:01):
we're back as jojo on the radio. This is the
I Heart Radio Countdown. Tate McCrae is here. Tate, Uh,
how did being a uh? And I'm asking this because
my daughter and her friends, you know, they've been competitive
dancers since they were three. Oh cool, you've done this forever.
How did being a competitive dancer help you with this?
Because that's an intense world as well? This is intense.
Clearly what you're.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
Doing, it's super intense.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
I think.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
What I think I'm really grateful for is the drive
and motivation of being an athlete is like no other.
I think anyone who's in a sport who like gets
put in at a young age, can I think feel bad?
Is you just like lock in at six am every
day and lockout and you're just like, I'm gonna become
good at something. And I think that's a really good
(22:44):
thing to instill in a kid at a young age.
But also because it was actually so intense where some
days were like breaking my body, like literally so so
intense that most of life actually feels like a little
later now because because it was so bad back then. Yeah,
like like sometimes I don't know if like like you
(23:07):
like do forty hour weekends where you're dancing like forty
hours and you're like that is absurd for a thirteen.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
Year old to It's a job.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
It's a job.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
And so now when I have like a four hour shoot,
I'm like, be good like it is. I think it's
like good, like I've done the worst. So now feels
a little better.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
All right, take mccrace here, back to the countdown. Let's
do it. This is song number five. All right, guys,
(24:01):
we're back. It's Jojo on the radio. This is the
iHeart Radio countdown. Tate McCrae's here another track from So
Close to What Revolving Door. Describe this, the track, the video,
the whole bit. Because you put this video out the
night the album came out. What do we need to know?
Speaker 2 (24:15):
I mean, this video is one of my favorite videos.
It's in this white room and there's fifteen doors to
represent all fifteen tracks on the album, and it's just
me and four girls and it gets pretty like eerie
by the end. It starts off as this like really
poised and typical music video set, and as the song
(24:35):
goes on and the tension builds, you can tell that
it gets like eerie and we keep dancing and we
keep going and it gets really intense and like you
never stop, and I feel like it sometimes I want
to just describe this industry a little bit, just the
never ending stopping until you like break a little bit.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
I have a feeling this is gonna be one of
your signature songs and videos of your career, Like when
they think when people look back and like, do you
know like they want to imitate you, Like like if
SML does a bit about something like this video in
the future, you know it's it's so it's so good.
Tay mc crazy here once again. This is Revolve and
door check This That was song number two this week
(26:07):
on the iHeart Radio Countdown. What Up's joked you on
the radio tape mccraey, it's your Tate, Uh so close
to what obviously is now curious family friends, you're inner circle,
the ones that've been with you forever. What's their reaction
to this album and the success you've had so far?
Speaker 2 (26:19):
I mean, they're all so supportive. I luckily have the
best family of all time. They are with me right now,
staying with me for this album week. My friends are
the best. A lot of my best friends on tour
with me just it's been great. They all are so
so I send them everything. They give me super honest opinions,
which is all I can ask for.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
They ever said like, dude, we don't like this Tate
all the time. What do you say to them, like
shut up?
Speaker 2 (26:43):
You?
Speaker 3 (26:44):
Depends on how strongly I feel about the song.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
Because if I really love it and I send it
to like my friend Finley and he hates it, I'm.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
Like, it's just like a heartbreaking thing. So but hope.
But most of the time we agree on.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Is the He's the breaking point with interest.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
Usually he is. If he doesn't like something, I get
a little concerned.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
Can I meet Philly someday?
Speaker 3 (27:06):
I want you need to meet Finley. He's he's the best,
all right.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Big Shot? That's Filly, all right. Take mccray's hanging out
all I'm with the countdown. Let's do it. This is
song number one there, it is number one this week
(28:02):
on the I heard radio countdown. Hope you're feeling that
what up showed you on the radio. Tate McCray is
here a quick recap so close to what is out?
Check mispossessive tour. Uh, it's it's happening soon. Check Finley
is very important to Take's career. Check big Shot the finly.
What else do people need to know about Tate McCrae.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
Tate mcray, Oh my god, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
Final question. Then message to your fans.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
Oh that I love you guys so much. And it
always shocks me whenever you show up to my shows.
Every time, even last night, I was so shocked that
people showed up like this is very cool.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
I always forget that they're there.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
It's not that they're there, of course, I know there,
but I always get like I can't believe how many
I appreciate it. I'm just like, I feel very lucky
to see your faces again.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
It's very cool, is it still? Is it like it's
it's gotta be wild to go from you know, pre debut,
so to speak, with living a somewhat of a normal life,
to people screaming for you, strangers that don't you've never met. Yeah,
is that just wild? When you really think about it?
Speaker 3 (29:05):
It is wild. Sometimes I think.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
My brain one day it's like I think all gonna
hit me where I'm like, holy, this life is insane
because I get really bad imposter syndrome where I'll show
up to an event or show up to a show
and be like, oh, we set all this up and
no one's going to show up, and then people show
up and I'm like whoa, So.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
I think it it. Yeah, it is always crazy.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
I mean coming from like Calgary, Alberta and you know,
just trying to be a singer out there, which felt
like crazy to like be out doing this now as
my job.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
Just feel very lucky. Take congrats on everything.
Speaker 3 (29:43):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
At the end of every interview, fist bumped to make
it official, Give me a lot of hell yeah,
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