Tate McRae Believes Writing Songs To Go Viral on TikTok: ‘That Is the Death of Art’
Tate McRae admits she is not interested in creating a viral TikTok sound. “I just don’t think that’s real music,” the artist stated.
In a recent interview on CBC’s Q With Tom Power, McRae explained her position, sharing, “If I’m being super honest, I feel like whenever someone walks into a room, like a songwriter, and they’re like, ‘We need to make something that’s going to catch on TikTok,’ it, like, fully kills it for me.”
McRae believes basing a song off a 15-second clip is the “death of art.”
“I’m not listening to a 15-second clip to feel music the way that I want to feel music,” she stated.
Tate McRae says she’s not interested in trying to reverse engineer a viral TikTok sound:
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“I think that’s the death of art if we’re basing something off a 15 second clip.” pic.twitter.com/zqDqRxflvE
Also, in the interview, she explained some of her songwriting process. The artist reveals that she will “never, ever, ever start something basing it off one section.”
“I will always write from how a song makes me feel in the room, the full song, start to finish,” McRae expressed.
After explaining her perspective, Power replied, “Tate you have no idea how happy that makes me.”
Power continues, “Older generations as they try to understand TikTok and music that blows up on TikTok will sometimes make assumptions about the way it’s created.”
“If you judge it before it’s finished there’s no chance, you’re not even giving it the chance to be good,” McRae mentions. “As a songwriter, it’s very therapeutic and it bugs me a bit when it’s driven from that perspective.”
“I love hearing it,” Power added.
During the interview, they talked about Tate McRae’s performance on SNL, how she wrote her new song “exes” in under two hours, and more. Check out the full interview on Tom Power’s YouTube channel.
