{"id":136973,"date":"2025-02-24T09:10:31","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T14:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/02\/24\/tate-mcrae-says-britney-spears-comparisons-are-flattering-and-scary-2\/"},"modified":"2025-02-24T09:10:31","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T14:10:31","slug":"tate-mcrae-says-britney-spears-comparisons-are-flattering-and-scary-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/02\/24\/tate-mcrae-says-britney-spears-comparisons-are-flattering-and-scary-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Tate McRae Says Britney Spears Comparisons Are \u2018Flattering and\u00a0Scary\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- no image --><\/p>\n<div><!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-paywall\">\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/tate-mcrae\/\">Tate McRae<\/a> gets why she keeps getting compared to Britney Spears. The 21-year-old Canadian pop star who first came into our lives as a tween finalist on the 2016 season of <em>So You Think You Can Dance<\/em> has mastered the art of dance pop temptation in videos like the one for her slinky new single, \u201cSports Car,\u201d in which McRae whisper sings through a series of provocative outfits and high-energy dance scenarios that bear the unmistakable influence of Brit.<\/p>\n<div class=\"injected-related-story \/\/ lrv-u-margin-tb-2 lrv-u-border-t-1 lrv-u-border-b-1 lrv-u-padding-t-050 lrv-u-padding-b-075 lrv-u-border-color-grey\">\n<div class=\"a-heading-border a-heading-border-background-color-grey a-heading-border-height-075 lrv-u-margin-b-075 lrv-u-margin-b-050@mobile-max\">\n<h3 id=\"title-of-a-story\" class=\"c-title  lrv-u-color-brand-primary a-font-primary-bold-s lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase lrv-u-padding-r-1 a-article-related-module-title a-article-related-module-title--color-brand-primary\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tRelated\t\t<\/p>\n<\/h3><\/div>\n<div class=\"o-card lrv-u-flex\">\n<p>\t\t\t<a tabindex=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/lists\/tate-mcrae-so-close-to-what-tracks-ranked\/\" class=\"lrv-u-flex lrv-a-unstyle-link lrv-u-color-brand-primary:hover\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"o-card__image-wrap lrv-u-flex-shrink-0 u-flex-basis-144 u-flex-basis-96@mobile-max\">\n<div class=\"c-lazy-image  lrv-u-height-100p\">\n<div class=\"a-crop-3x2 a-crop-1x1@mobile-max lrv-u-height-100p\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/tate-mcrae-press-credit-Charlie-Denis-2025-billboard-1548.jpg?w=237&amp;h=147&amp;crop=1\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/tate-mcrae-press-credit-Charlie-Denis-2025-billboard-1548.jpg?w=237&amp;h=147&amp;crop=1\" alt=\"Tate McRae\" data-lazy-srcset=\"\" data-lazy-sizes=\"\" height=\"\" width=\"\"><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"o-card__content lrv-u-flex lrv-u-flex-direction-column lrv-u-justify-content-center lrv-u-padding-lr-1 lrv-u-padding-lr-075@mobile-max\">\n<div class=\"o_category \">\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"c_title \">\n<h3 id=\"title-of-a-story\" class=\"c-title  a-font-primary-medium-m lrv-u-padding-b-050 u-letter-spacing-0028@mobile-max\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tTate McRae&rsquo;s &lsquo;So Close To What&rsquo; Album: All 15 Tracks\u00a0Ranked\t\t<\/p>\n<\/h3><\/div>\n<p><time class=\"c-timestamp  a-font-primary-medium-xxs lrv-u-color-brand-primary lrv-u-order-100\" datetime=\"00:00-YY-DD-MM\"><br \/>\n\t02\/21\/2025<br \/>\n<\/time><\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tMaking the rounds promoting her just released third LP, <em>So Close to What<\/em>, McRae is not shying away from the Spears talk, while also telling the U.K.\u2019s <em><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/arts-entertainment\/music\/features\/tate-mcrae-lyrics-album-kid-laroi-b2702379.html\" target=\"_blank\">Independent<\/a><\/em> that she\u2019s also feeling \u201cso much more confident in my taste and the way I am as a person\u201d these days. Noting that she started writing music when she was just 16 and \u201cknew nothing,\u201d McRae said that her 2022 debut album, <em>I Used to Think I Could Fly<\/em>, feels like a lifetime ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThanks to the winning combo of high-pitched vocals and seductive choreo in the video for hits like her 2023 Billboard Hot 100 No. 3 \u201cGreedy,\u201d McRae said she\u2019s also okay with the comparisons to a young Britney, though she finds them a bit intimidating. \u201cI find that flattering and scary,\u201d McRae said excitedly. \u201cIt\u2019s such a crazy statement because no one can compare to Britney Spears. It\u2019s like comparing someone to Michael Jackson! That\u2019s the blueprint.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tMcCrae teams up with her boyfriend, singer The Kid Laroi, on the new album, a tricky scenario she recently described as an unexpected treat. \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/pop\/tate-mcrae-kid-laroi-collab-so-close-to-what-album-listening-party-1235905600\/\">It was a really funny process<\/a>, because me and Laroi have never really, like, taken each other seriously,\u201d she said during a Q&amp;A Spotify listening party in Los Angeles earlier this month. \u201cYou know when you\u2019re in a relationship and you sing around each other, but you don\u2019t really, like,\u00a0<em>sing<\/em>? So it was a little stressful being in the studio singing and writing in front of him, but it was a cool experience to watch him in his process.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/pop\/tate-mcrae-britney-spears-comparisons-flattering-scary-1235908453\/\">Aller \u00e0 la source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tate McRae gets why she keeps getting compared to Britney Spears. The 21-year-old Canadian pop star who first came into our lives as a tween finalist on the 2016 season of So You Think You Can Dance has mastered the art of dance pop temptation in videos like the one for her slinky new single, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musique","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}