Tate McRae is a booked and busy flexible force to be reckoned with. She’s just released her brand new third album, 'So Close To What,' and she’s about to head out on her continent-spanning 2025 'Miss Possessive Tour.' But before all of that she checked in with Audacy’s Bru to chat all about both and more.

Tate last checked in on the heels of releasing her album’s debut track, "It’s ok I’m ok." Leading up to the album’s arrival she dropped two more singles, "2 Hands" and "Sports Car,” before officially releasing her 15-track album on February 21.

Sitting down with Bru on her album’s release day, Tate shared her extreme excitement, mixed with slight hesitation, to scroll through social to gage the response. “It's like such an overstimulating thing because, you're like, I don't want to look at my phone because if I scroll too far, you're bound to see something that's scary,” Tate expressed. “But I've been also wanting to see if the fans like it, so it's been fun.”

Tate has released a steady flow of albums in the last 3 years with 2022’s 'I Used to Think I Could Fly,' 2023’s 'Think Later,' and now 'So Close To What' in 2025. Commending Tate for the grind, and rightfully so, Bru asked her what’s its been like and if she’s had chance to process it at all. Also wondering if it feels like she’s on the same wave as when she put out her first album.

"Well, the first album, that feels like ages ago. I was 17 when I started writing that, and then I took a break from writing or from touring and wrote for a full year, so I felt like that was like a separate thing. But Think Later and this album have been really tight,” Tate noted. “Album, tour, album, and it's just felt natural. I've just been writing a lot, I've been inspired,” she added.

Sharing what is currently motivating her the most right now, Tate said, “last year was the first time that I've ever danced, danced on tour. So to feel that response and be like — ‘oh, this is what I need to do on tour’ — to perform and want to feel good with my dancers on stage… I think that inspired a lot of the writing for this album.”

While we find it hard to remember a time when Tate wasn’t slaying every inch of whatever stage she was occupying with Sean Bankhead choreography, there was a time when she’d just sing, stand, and walk around.

While Tate has more than mastered dancing while singing, running while singing (like Beyoncé and Miley Cyrus) is a difference story. “I'm an awful runner,” Tate admitted, “so honestly just getting on a treadmill, I can't do anything, so singing and running would be a bad idea for me.”

Fun fact — Tate also shared that “bloodonmyhands” and “Like I do,” were the final two tracks written and added to the album. “It kind of felt like it like tied the whole album together and was like the final little bow,” Tate said. “I wrote it in New York like 3 weeks ago, so it was really last minute and it it really was a satisfying feeling.”

Despite being a full fledged Popstar, Tate confessed she has “the worst case of impostor syndrome.” Noting “even last night,” at her album release party, “I was just like I wonder if anyone's gonna show up… like no one's gonna come to a parking lot. And so every time I come on stage and I have like this look on my face where I look really shocked it’s just because I actually genuinely am, like I can't believe people showed up.”

Talking about how the collab with The Kid LAROI came about, well aside from the fact that as boyfriend and girlfriend, it just makes sense Tate shared. “It started because I had another record that he loved and I was like looking for a feature, and he was like, ‘let me just cut a verse on it.’” Noting she’s “been a fan of him for so long,” Tate was obviously down. “So he tracked the verse. Then of course you like analyze everything. We were like, let's try and beat this, and we wrote another song. And yeah, it was a fun process, it was ...