Tate McRae Talks New Album on ‘The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon’

Tate McRae is having a second. Along with her newest album, So Shut To What, surging towards the highest of the Billboard 200, the singer-songwriter stopped by The Tonight Present Starring Jimmy Fallon on Tuesday (Feb. 25) to mirror on her whirlwind 12 months.

Throughout her chat with Fallon, McRae mirrored on her first time performing with boyfriend and fellow singer, The Child Laroi, who seems on her new album, in addition to the shock of discovering her whole mission had leaked weeks earlier than launch.

McRae and Laroi’s collaboration, “I Know Love,” marks their first official duet, however the singer admitted to Fallon that singing collectively didn’t come as naturally as some would possibly anticipate.

“It was slightly nerve-wracking,” she instructed Fallon. “I imply, the primary time we ever sang in entrance of one another was truly at my MSG present final 12 months.”

She described the awkwardness of rehearsing for that second. “You simply, like, pretend sing in entrance of one another on a regular basis,” she stated. “So, like, even after we had been at our present final 12 months, we had been sitting in soundcheck like, ‘Are you going to sing first?’”

McRae laughed as she recalled their time within the studio collectively. “It was the identical type of scenario within the studio. I used to be similar to, ‘Are you able to, like, not hear?’”

Past the joy of her new album and collaboration, McRae additionally opened up a few nightmare state of affairs for any artist—her album leaking weeks earlier than its official launch. “I used to be sitting within the bathtub, and I get a DM from certainly one of my followers, they usually had been similar to, ‘Right here’s the hyperlink to the entire album,’” she revealed. “And it was like 5 weeks until the album was gonna drop.”

“I name my mother, name my therapist,” she admitted. “I imply, it’s simply arduous as a result of I really feel prefer it takes away all of your management as an artist. You wish to ship your artwork precisely the way you need it to return out.”

Regardless of the setback, McRae took the scenario in stride. “I really feel like we turned it round and added some extra songs,” she stated. “I feel that’s the one factor you possibly can actually do in a scenario like this, is simply make the most of it.”

Fallon then shifted gears, mentioning an surprising function on the album—Sydney Sweeney’s shock cameo on So Shut To What monitor “Miss Possessive.” “I used to be in Pilates and bumped into Glen Powell,” McRae defined. “He was like, ‘Oh my God, I used to be simply speaking about you with Sydney Sweeney!’”

To her shock, Powell pulled out his cellphone to disclose that Sweeney had despatched him a voice memo about McRae. “Sydney was like, ‘I’m obsessive about Tate McRae!’”

That second led to McRae recruiting the Euphoria star for a voice cameo. “So, I received her to be on the music!” she stated.