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Tate McRae Hits the Nostalgic Sweet Spot on ‘So Close to What’: Album Review
Tate McRae looks to inspiration from Britney Spears and Nelly Furtado on her nostalgia-indebted third album 'So Close to What.'
That all-in “TRL” aesthetic — Britney Spears’ dance moves, Nelly Furtado’s hip-pop savvy, Christina Aguilera’s attitude — is the crucial force behind McRae’s third album “So Close to What,” out today. It’s one thing to cash in on an artistic rubric popularized before you were born — many have tried, many have failed — but to do it convincingly is one of McRae’s bona fides, and throughout “So Close,” she largely clears the path she’s been setting closer to main pop girl. She can certainly carry the tune — “I Know Love” featuring her boyfriend Kid Laroi has hit stamped all over it — yet as she drills deeper on the record’s most forthcoming tracks (“Purple Lace Bra,” “Nostalgia”), she lands on one note and often stays there.
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