Tate McRae leaves the world not ok after releasing the awaited smash hit “It’s ok I’m ok” on September 12, 2024. 

Tate McRae is a young Canadian pop singer and performer. As for McRae’s background in dance, she has brought lots of natural stage presence in the essence of performing not only through vocals and stage visuals, but with her wowing dance skills. Most pop performers learn to dance down the road, for that is an expectation to be a pop star, performing through major movements. For Tate McRae, dancing has become a perfect add on to her talent of voice. McRae grew up dancing as her mom owned a dance studio, was casted on season 13 of “So You Think You Can Dance” in 2017, danced with Justin Bieber at a show on his “Purpose World Tour” in 2016, holds titles for Best Dancer at “The Dance Awards”, and was an ambassador and trained athlete for the American dance brand Capezio. As her singing has always been a talent and passion of hers, and while focusing on her dance career at a young age, she then posted youtube videos of her writing and singing and gained another following. In 2020, Tate McRae released a song “You Broke Me First” which kick started her career. As she has been very successful with two previous tours, one current tour, two albums, and two EPs, with a vast and supportive batch of fans, her popularity has seemed to skyrocket since the release of her 2023 singles “Greedy” and “Exes” became hits that were including on her successful album “Think Later”. McRae’s Think Later Tour is currently still touring and has gained her great success and credit to her artistry, for some have even compared her to “the next Brittany Spears” and “the true definition of a pop star” or “saving pop music and culture”. 

Tate McRae has let this song be highly anticipated after debuting the song and performance on August 22 at Madison Square Garden in New York on her Think Later Tour. That particular crowd was the first ones to hear “It’s ok I’m ok” live. McRae transitioned into this surprise by performing a small acting bit shown on the big screens hinting towards the surprise by jokingly addressing the comment as to her wearing a head mic, because of how much she performs her dance while performing her music; in which, she does flawlessly. Her last words before the screen went dark and into the song were, “Wait, this isn’t greedy”, leaving fans confused and shocked all at once. 

The songs overall vibe is very sassy in lyrics with a touch of the early 2000’s instrumental style. As the song feels young, fun, catty, and undeniably catchy I get a strong sense of late 2000’s roots. In this song, Tate McRae sings about letting a girl have a boy she has already dealt with as presumed in the lyrics: 

“Take him, he’s yours 

It’s ok, I’m ok, had him in the first place, it’s ok, I’m ok”. 

This “girl” in which McRae is referring to is how she sort of tells the story, using things she says about this “boy” that McRae has obviously had but not had the best experience with. Lyrics for example show as, 

She be like “He’s so perfect.”

I be like “Oh, what version?” 

A majority of lines in the chorus repeat, “you can have him anyway”, leaving the listeners with the impression that this song is unapologetic and the “shoo away those boys” anthem. 

Tate McRae’s new music video for her new single “It’s ok I’m ok” hit 2.6 million views within the first 24 hours of releasing. As the video was bursting with iconic fashion choices in clips and the most expected pop star attitude in her performance, she left many astounded with her successful risk to show off her spicy side. The video takes place on a street and starts innocently with Tate McRae herself sitting down, sipping on a drink. As the video moves along, she changes gears with struts and a censored scene of her body while getting arrested, moving along to signing autographs in the next clips dressed in a 2000’s style outfit. From the middle to the second half of the music video is when the dancing emerged greatly leaving nothing out of the full Tate McRae experience. The video was loaded with McRae’s signature hip-hop dance style, even wowing viewers with a clip of her doing a middle split on top of a car in the street. 

As an overall view on the song, music video, and special performance teaser leading up to the official release I would have nothing less than a standing ovation. Already beloved by fans and making a stamp on the latest music news this song and video has touched the pop culture industry in one way shape or form. All of the comparisons to Brittany Spears and the sensation of her Think Later era, it is an obvious fact that Tate McRae is paving an even bigger path for herself inventing an incomparable household name of her own.