In between her furious baking schedule, attending Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco’s wedding last month, releasing half a dozen variations on her The Life of a Showgirl album and, it seems safe to assume, beginning to plan her own wedding to fiancé Travis Kelce, it’s hard to imagine Taylor Swift has a lot of free time.
But on Monday night (Oct. 6), during a lightning round of questions on The Tonight Show, Jimmy Fallon asked her to name the last song by any singer (not including herself) that she’s listened to lately and Swift, 35, was right there with the answer. “Oh, Tate McRae has a great new song called ‘Tit For Tat,’ you gotta listen to it,” she said. “Like, full volume, over and over again on repeat. It’s just so good.”
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As you might imagine, McRae, 22, had a totally chill, not at all freaking out response to the high praise from the high priestess of pop. “Oh my Godddddddddd [7 eyes welled with tears emoji, six crying emoji] whaaaaaaaaaaat,” McRae wrote on her Instagram Story on Tuesday morning (Oct. 7) over not one, but two different grabs of the video from the Swift shout out.
The song was released last month as a stand-alone single after first being teased on McRae’s Miss Possessive tour. Though McRae has not made any public comment on the title or the lyrics, the loosie single dropped two months after she ended her one-year relationship with singer The Kid LAROI. The latter revealed the split as part of a July post denying rumors that his team had seeded negative posts about McRae online to help promote his then-new single, “Hot Girl Problems.”
LAROI then released “A Cold Play” in early September, a song that appears to reference their breakup with lyrics including, “Who was I to think that I could fix you, baby?/ Who would I be if I didn’t miss you, baby? I hope that you know you were appreciated/ Around my house, I still got up all of our pictures, baby/ ‘Cause I still love you, that’s how I feel at my core/ Flew different states to come see you in between tour/ I gave you everything I had and even more.”
McRae’s “T4T” also seems to address the break on the first verse, where she sings, “The day I met you, boy, I thought it was a blessing/ In the heat of it, I always took your side/ It’s a shame you out here tryna make it messy/ Wow, you’re messy, damn/ We wеre good, I thought we made it through thе ending/ I was hearing s–t I never thought you’d say.”
The pre-chorus gets even spicier, with McRae playfully throwing down the gauntlet in a most Swiftian manner as she challenges, “Let’s go song for song, let’s go back to back/ Let’s go tit for tat, boy, you asked for that/ That’s the best you got, where’s the good one at?/ I was never as far away as you thought.” The song is already shaping up to be one of McRae’s biggest solo hits to date, debuting at No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 for the week ending Saturday (Oct. 11); she hit No. 1 on the Hot 100 in May thanks to her feature on Morgan Wallen’s “What I Want.”
Earlier this week, Swift told SiriusXM’s Morning Mash-Up that McRae was one of the three artists she’s “constantly streaming” at home, also name-dropping Sabrina Carpenter and sombr.
Watch the “T4T” lyric video below.
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