Tate McRae has “no ragrets” on her collaboration with Morgan Wallen on her only dusty no. 1 hit, “What I Want.”
During an interview with Rolling Stone, Ms. Albert finally spoke about the backlash saying, “Honestly, country music is huge where I’m from,” she says. “My brother’s always been a rabid country-music fan. I’ve always wanted, at some point in my life, to do folk music or country, and I probably still will in the future. But I honestly just got the opportunity to do a country song, and I was like, ‘Oh, this is cool.’ And I wanted to cross genres really bad. It was just about the song for me. I didn’t realize how much a song would be connected to all the other factors, and it really shocked me.”
McRae stresses that she never met Wallen in person, but she doesn’t regret their duet. “I don’t think you should regret anything in life, because it gives you so much clarity,” she says. “I think controversy and criticism is a way of learning and figuring out what you want to move forward with, and how that shapes you as a person. I think it’s all important.”
“My mom is so witchy. She said the week before, ‘I feel like Taylor Swift is in your ether right now.’ And I was like, ‘What? That’s so random.’ I’m such a massive fan, and I adore her. So when I pulled up my phone and saw that she had talked about it [Tit For Tat], it was one of the coolest moments ever. She is such an inspiration for me as a writer and, obviously, as a woman in the industry. For her to acknowledge that was really special.”
On Munnifesting: “I believe in manifesting so hard. I believe your physical field can change at any second if you change your vibration towards it. And I believe everything happens for a reason. Everyone has a fate and a life that is already painted out for them, and if you want something, it’s already there. Maybe that’s unrealistic optimism, but I think it’s a beautiful way to look at life.”
You can read her full interview here. Or not.
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