“Greedy” is Tate McRae’s latest hit, which has been streamed over 311 million times on Spotify to date! The single is produced by Ryan Tedder, Jasper Harris and Grant Boutin. The singer-songwriter says she had to step back from being so vulnerable and introduce her alter ego to the world.
“There’s a whole other side of my personality the world has no idea about, that’s Tatiana for sure.”
“There’s a whole other side of my personality the world has no idea about, that’s Tatiana for sure.”
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00:00 Definitely my alter ego talking.
00:01 I call her Tatiana.
00:03 No, no, seriously.
00:05 I literally have an alter ego that I call Tatiana.
00:07 I had to snap into a mentality of not being so vulnerable
00:10 and so honest and just being like,
00:12 okay, there's a whole other side of my personality
00:14 that the entire world has no idea about.
00:16 That's Tatiana for sure.
00:18 I've never done a beat like this before.
00:28 So I was like, this could be straight trash
00:31 if we mess this up, or it could be really good.
00:34 So we were kind of just like playing around
00:36 and rapping out like whatever we wanted to say.
00:39 There wasn't really any boundaries.
00:41 And then we just like kind of started painting this story
00:43 of like a guy coming up to the bar and hitting on you.
00:46 ♪ He said, are you serious ♪
00:49 ♪ I try but I can't figure out ♪
00:51 ♪ I've been next to you all night ♪
00:54 ♪ Still don't know what you're about ♪
00:56 ♪ You keep talking, talking, talking ♪
00:59 ♪ Not much coming out your mouth ♪
01:01 ♪ Can't you tell that I want you ♪
01:03 ♪ I say yeah ♪
01:04 I'm a very visual writer.
01:06 So everything I write, I need to like connect a color to it
01:10 or a picture or an image.
01:12 I don't know why I was just envisioning me on like this,
01:13 like, I don't even know what they're called.
01:15 Like one of those couches, like sitting on top of it
01:17 and a guy like coming next to me
01:18 and sitting right next to me.
01:19 I mean, just like him talking my ear off.
01:21 And I like had this like very specific image in my head.
01:23 And I'm so happy that we ended up making it so visual
01:26 because I feel like that's what makes the song so relatable.
01:29 'Cause I feel like everyone's like
01:30 gone through that exact scenario.
01:33 ♪ I would want myself ♪
01:35 ♪ Baby, please believe me ♪
01:38 ♪ I would put you through hell ♪
01:40 ♪ Just to know me, yeah, yeah ♪
01:43 ♪ Social rug yourself ♪
01:45 ♪ Baby, don't get greedy ♪
01:48 ♪ That shit won't end well ♪
01:51 ♪ Mm ♪
01:52 We wrote this chorus like four times.
01:55 There's so many different versions.
01:57 And the original lyric was, "I keep to myself."
02:01 Which would have been way lamer.
02:03 Crazy, like, "I keep to myself."
02:05 Like just sounds like this little jingle.
02:07 But like now it sounds like,
02:08 I feel like this like hard pop song.
02:11 And before it was so like meek.
02:13 (air whooshing)
02:15 ♪ I see you eyeing me down ♪
02:17 ♪ But you'll never know much past my name ♪
02:20 ♪ Or how I'm running this room around ♪
02:23 ♪ That I'm still half your age ♪
02:25 ♪ Yeah, you're la la la looking at me ♪
02:27 ♪ Like I'm some sweet escape ♪
02:30 ♪ Obvious that you want me ♪
02:32 ♪ But I said ♪
02:33 When I hear the second verse in particular,
02:35 I'm just like, "Oh, this sounds like
02:36 "the most badass girl ever."
02:38 And so when I listened to it, when I sang it,
02:40 it like took me into that space of that character
02:42 whenever I'm like on stage.
02:44 And I feel like that's the coolest part.
02:46 (air whooshing)
02:47 ♪ He said, "I'm just curious ♪
02:49 ♪ Is this for real or just a night ♪
02:52 ♪ Can't tell if you love or hate me ♪
02:55 ♪ Never met someone like that ♪
02:57 ♪ Drive me so, so, so crazy ♪
02:59 ♪ Did you know you got that effect ♪
03:02 ♪ I said, "Let me check, yeah." ♪
03:05 The biggest thing was just continuing the conversation
03:08 and then putting like a little like exclamation point
03:09 at the end being like, "Yeah, I know."
03:12 And that's like the most fun part.
03:14 Like on tour, I'll always be like, "Let me check."
03:17 And the whole crowd will be like, "Yeah."
03:19 I just think it's a really empowering and cool moment.
03:22 I think it perfectly captures the bridge.
03:25 (air whooshing)
03:27 In the final last chorus, it's like,
03:29 ♪ I always want for myself ♪
03:31 That's my favorite part of the whole song.
03:33 I feel like that's the most like tape part of the song
03:35 that was very fun to wrap it up with.