- 2025-03-03
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MUSIC
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Tate McRae Performs “Sports car” & “Dear god” on Saturday Night Live
Canadian singer-songwriter Tate McRae appeared on Saturday Night Live to perform “Sports car” and “Dear god”.
This marks the second time she has been the musical performer on the sketch show since 2023.
Both songs are featured on her third studio album “So Close To What”, which was released last month.
The album features guest appearances from Flo Milli and The Kid Laroi, and reached No. 2 on UK Albums Chart.
“Sports car” was released as the third single. Tate McRae co-wrote both songs with American singer-songwriter Julia Michaels, American pop rock band OneRepublic's Ryan Tedder, and Grant Boutin.
Tate McRae told Vogue about “Sports car, “This was such a fun song to write. I wrote it with Julia Michaels, Ryan Tedder, and Grant and we wanted to kind of capture the adrenaline of love, sex, and the excitement of it all. I felt like a sports car reminded me of that feeling of love, and like you are right in the middle of it. We referenced the Ying Yang twins with the whisper chorus and it ended up being really fun. This was the most difficult video to move in because I wanted to honor the pieces and make sure that the outfits laid well and looked good. But in some shots I was wearing six to eight inch platform heels where I was like this is actually impossible to stand in. I’m such a sneakerhead so for me to walk around in heels is an issue. And for one of the scenes, I had to be in heels and a chair. Learning where to put my weight and where to put my pelvis to be able to dance with heels while also balancing and moving quickly is such a skill.”- Tate McRae said of “Dear god”, “I don’t do very well with boredom so whenever I finish a show I can go to the studio the next day and write again, maybe ‘cause it’s just like a therapeutic thing for me so I need it but 'Dear god’ was so fun. I had booked three days with Julia Michaels and I had no idea if we needed anything on the record and then I ended up writing majority of the songs on the record, which was so interesting. But ‘Dear god’ was just initially we were just like, ‘Let’s write a fun, sexy song, dance song,’ and then we ended up realizing it was so heartbreaking that feeling of desperation of being like, ‘To some higher power, this is the last thing that I can call on for me to forget this person, you’re my last hope.’ It was kinda fun to use all those visuals of sitting on the side of your bed and praying to forget a person.”
- source : NBC
