Tate McRae will get why she retains getting in comparison with Britney Spears. The 21-year-old Canadian pop star who first got here into our lives as a tween finalist on the 2016 season of So You Assume You Can Dance has mastered the artwork of dance pop temptation in movies just like the one for her slinky new single, “Sports activities Automotive,” by which McRae whisper sings by means of a sequence of provocative outfits and high-energy dance eventualities that bear the unmistakable affect of Brit.

Making the rounds selling her simply launched third LP, So Near What, McRae shouldn’t be shying away from the Spears discuss, whereas additionally telling the U.Okay.’s Unbiased that she’s additionally feeling “a lot extra assured in my style and the best way I’m as an individual” today. Noting that she began writing music when she was simply 16 and “knew nothing,” McRae mentioned that her 2022 debut album, I Used to Assume I May Fly, seems like a lifetime in the past.

Due to the successful combo of high-pitched vocals and seductive choreo within the video for hits like her 2023 Billboard Sizzling 100 No. 3 “Grasping,” McRae mentioned she’s additionally okay with the comparisons to a younger Britney, although she finds them a bit intimidating. “I discover that flattering and scary,” McRae mentioned excitedly. “It’s such a loopy assertion as a result of nobody can examine to Britney Spears. It’s like evaluating somebody to Michael Jackson! That’s the blueprint.”

McCrae groups up along with her boyfriend, singer The Child Laroi, on the brand new album, a tough situation she lately described as an surprising deal with. “It was a extremely humorous course of, as a result of me and Laroi have by no means actually, like, taken one another significantly,” she mentioned throughout a Q&A Spotify listening celebration in Los Angeles earlier this month. “You recognize if you’re in a relationship and also you sing round one another, however you don’t actually, like, sing? So it was a bit nerve-racking being within the studio singing and writing in entrance of him, nevertheless it was a cool expertise to look at him in his course of.”