Tate McRae has released new music once again this year, on November 21, 2025, in response to her recent breakup with singer Kid Laroi. While she has been a singer and dancer for many years, she has only recently started gaining popularity with her music blowing up on social media during COVID. Since then, she has consistently released high-quality music and has been on tour for So Close to What since March 18, 2025.
On February 21, 2025, “So Close to What” was released with sixteen songs and immediately gained popularity with listeners. Near the time of release, McRae was also partnering to promote the new F1 movie starring Brad Pitt and Damson Idris, creating a song titled “Just Keep Watching,” which also played within the movie itself. She is often talked about on all social media platforms and has a TikTok account that posts consistently to keep fans engaged.
Other than social media, McRae was also often discussed in relation to another young singer named Kid Laroi. There were originally dating rumours in early 2024, and they confirmed the relationship in July of that year through Instagram. McRae had previously been dating a professional hockey player named Cole Sillinger, who plays for the Columbus Blue Jackets. She had released her blow-up album after their breakup about the relationship, which made fans excited when she and Laroi started dating in hopes that she had found someone better. They attended multiple award shows together and were very public about their relationship, even going as far as making a song together titled “I Know Love.” They made a music video together and performed a duet of “Without You” in Madison Square during McRae’s tour.
In July 2025, speculation about their breakup circulated and was later confirmed by Laroi himself through an
Instagram post. He stated they were on “good terms”, but on September 5th, he released a song titled “A Coldplay,” seemingly referencing his relationship with McRae. In response, on September 2,6 McRae released “Tit For Tat” with lyrics like “let’s go song for song… that’s the best you got, where the good one at?”. Both of these sons went against Larois’ previous statement, saying they were on good terms, and it only got worse once McRae announced she was releasing a whole deluxe album, adding onto her most recent one, So Close To What.
Trying on shoes
The first song within the deluxe, and it focuses on the idea of changing yourself for a past lover and working to move on after accepting the relationship’s end is final. She sings “trying on shoes/putting on glitter/anything to make me a little less bitter” and
ends the song with “I can’t stop”. This is the only way she knows how to remove herself from a past
relationship by becoming a whole new person and putting on a false facade of glamour.
Anything but love
The title is a direct call back to her collaboration with Laroi on “I Know Love,” where she flips the script, making it a song about everyone in her life turning against Laroi and supporting her in the phase of revenge. The first line of the songs goes as follows, “Listen, my dad hates you/my dog hates you/my brother hates you/and I do too” and “you only hate cause you like the drama”.
Nobodys girl
She has finally reached the final stage of loss and is ready to embrace singlehood and celebrate her newfound
independence. The chorus is upbeat and confident, “I am nobody’s girl/I love it so much/It’s exactly what I wanted”. McRae also touches on the idea that love shouldn’t hold you back rather empower you, “Real love doesn’t clip your wings”. The music video pictures McRae in angel wings symbolising freedom and transformation.
Horseshoe
McRae, while acknowledging her luckiness for being so successful in life and career she also opens up about her sadness and pain behind closed doors from the breakup. She writes ‘I’m not a pop star when I’m all alone” and “Who am I to cry tonight/such a lucky girl I know/but where should all my sadness go?” The song highlights the duality of being in the limelight and having to put on a happy facade that doesn’t match her true feelings.
The album as a whole feels like a full-circle moment with her starting in a new, happy relationship, losing that person, and finally finding acceptance and peace while growing into the next phase of her life. It makes sense why fans are so drawn to her with the constant honesty and openness she writes into her music, and that is sure to be true of whatever she creates next.
