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How Tate McRae Found Her Way

For Tate McRae, an average night in 2025 means performing to tens of thousands of screaming fans in arenas around the world. Flanked by dancers, the 22-year-old Calgary native undulates across the stage as blinding lights strobe in time with thundering power-pop beats—whipping her waist-length hair, twisting her form into impossible shapes—while she commands the stage with the intensity of a seasoned pop veteran.

But when the lights go down and she finally closes her eyes, the scenes that follow are far less glamorous. McRae says she doesn’t dream, she only has nightmares. And they’re not about missing cues onstage or losing her voice. Instead, McRae says that when she sleeps, her subconscious conjures darker images, like visions of “a massive spider crawling on my wall coming to attack me.”

Although her music is bright and confident, what McRae is describing is an inner world shaped by darkness. At eight, McRae was already channeling her angst into writing poetry and what she calls “dark and twisted” short stories. The recurring theme was a girl locked in a mental battle, who always woke up to find it had all been a dream. “That was my plot twist at the end of every story,” she says. “My teachers loved it.”

That tension—fear after the lights go out, fearlessness under them—sits at the core of McRae’s appeal. At 22, the dancer-turned-songwriter channels her energy into sleek, high-impact pop, building an arena-size community that sees itself in her extremes.

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