“It’s really important to take moments and sit back and think, ‘Wow, I did that’.”
“I mean, the thing about when I released songs on YouTube was that I was writing them just me and my piano, and [there was] also no criticism whatsoever,” she offers up today. “I could write those songs in like, twenty minutes - super fast - but then there was no one else in the room to challenge me on my thoughts.” Now, her focus seems to be more on education, and striving to see the world through different eyes. “The sessions now may be longer and more of a thought process, but I’m looking at things from a million different perspectives,” she affirms. “Every different writing session with a new writer, you learn new things about how they look at life. As a 17-year-old, that’s different to how I look at life. It’s been a really cool learning experience.”
Marking the new era of her career in early 2020 with debut EP ‘All The Things I Never Said’, its five tracks were, according to Tate, “definitely just one big experiment” - a means to explore what she hoped to say as an artist now. Slick R&B-indebted, confessional offerings, the likes of ‘All My Friends are Fake’ and ‘Tear Myself Apart’ (co-written with none other than Billie Eilish and Finneas) soon garnered even more attention for the young star. Since then, her most recent single - the headstrong banger ‘You Broke Me First’ - has amassed over 300 million Spotify streams and edged into the Top 3 of the UK Charts.
For some young artists, this level of attention would be too much - especially during such a turbulent year. To the contrary, it’s something the singer seems to take in her stride. “I think something I’ve noticed since I was younger…” she begins, recalling her former dancing days. “I used to compete every weekend, so I was constantly on stage and constantly exposed to pressure, so I don’t really get nervous, which is a really good thing. There are high pressure situations, and there’s a lot of people telling you a lot of different things, and I think when you don’t have nerves, you can literally dial in on what you wanna say.”
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