ICYMI - The Internet History of Tate McRae
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🗓️ 6 January 2024
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Candice Lim is joined by culture journalist Cat Sposato to trace the rise of this year’s most promising pop act, Tate McRae. McRae gained national attention as a 12-year-old dancer on So You Think You Can Dance. While pursuing a legitimate dance career, she posted an original song on YouTube that led RCA Records to bet on her as the next big pop star. After two albums, certain people on the internet still accuse McRae of being an industry plant, but her path has been oddly traditional and well-documented online. So was McRae an industry plant or an inevitable star?
This podcast is produced by Se’era Spragley Ricks, Daisy Rosario, Candice Lim and Rachelle Hampton.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, I'm Candice Lim, and you're listening to Icy Why Am I, in case you missed it, |
| 0:17.4 | Sleeats Podcasts about Internet Culture. |
| 0:20.0 | And I know you all miss Rachel as much as I do so here's an update from our girl |
| 0:25.0 | Apparently last week a location scout knocked on Rachel's door and said hey no big deal |
| 0:30.9 | We're gonna be shooting a campaign in your building today. |
| 0:34.0 | Shouldn't make too much noise. Then at 10 a.m. there's stomping, running coming from above |
| 0:40.5 | Rachel is banging her broom on the ceiling telling those kids to quiet down. |
| 0:45.0 | They don't. So Rachel, as a leader in her community, goes up to the roof and she sees |
| 0:51.0 | Jeremy Allen White shooting a Calvin Klein campaign. |
| 0:55.0 | And look, Rachel is not shefmatized. |
| 0:59.0 | Okay, she goes up to Mr. Allen White himself and says, |
| 1:02.0 | hey, keep it down. We're taking our midday |
| 1:04.4 | naps over here. And Jeremy's like, oh my God, so sorry. And Rachel's about to go back down when she |
| 1:09.6 | says, hey, by the way, have you ever thought about shooting this commercial vertically? |
| 1:15.0 | And the director is like, what? And she's like, yeah, for Tik-Toc it might be cool to shoot it like in |
| 1:19.2 | portrait mode. Jeremy jumps out of his Calvin Klein jeans and he says yes chef so that is the story of how |
| 1:27.1 | Rachel Hampton ended up shooting the Jeremy Allen White Calvin Klein campaign on her |
| 1:31.1 | iPhone and while Rachel is living the best life of |
| 1:35.2 | every social media manager, we are here today to talk about what 2024 might look |
| 1:40.9 | like for the music industry. We've done episodes about Ice Spice, |
| 1:44.8 | Addison Ray, Spongebob, and I think what intrigued us about those artists is that |
| 1:49.3 | they have kind of bypassed the traditional industry method of becoming a huge star. |
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