Shadowing Practice: Does Tate McRae Know Her Lyrics? - Learn English Speaking with Video

Oh my god, I'm literally scared of all these.

I'm hiding behind these cards.

People are gonna think I'm a freak.

Hey cute jeans, take mine off me.

This is the first line in Sports Car.

This honestly was such a fun song to write.

We wrote it so quickly it was like i remember writing sports car

and revolving door in the same day

and we were just on a roll we were having

so much fun we were just being stupid musically it was

taking a lot of risks for me i mean doing a

whisper chorus as a pop girl in a pop song where i usually love a

super melodic chorus was a bit of a risk for me

and i didn't know what people were going to think of

it there was no ulterior meaning it was just a song

about exactly what it says i now like love performing it's

one of my favorites i got to work with bardia who's an unbelievable music video director

that feels like so long ago now

that i filmed this i think we had 15 different looks

which is insane in one music video day to pull off

that many we wanted to have all these different versions of myself

and the whole twist of the video was that i was watching it

and i was taking control of the narrative of my career

and all these different characters i could put on i I honestly don't know that many sports cars.

I think like a Ferrari or like a Lamborghini or something.

I don't know, I don't drive a sports car.

Oh my God.

Fix your fucking self, because I'm scared of myself.

Okay, this was in my song, Tip for Chat.

I love this song.

I remember coming out of the studio, we wrote in this little closet in Nashville, like the weirdest little spot.

I was exhausted.

I just finished a show and we had like four hours to write a song and this was so euphoric feeling.

I think when you 100 % get exactly how you're feeling out on paper

and there's no weird emotions attached to it or it comes across exactly how you want it, it's such a satisfying feeling.

I remember playing it for my best friend Finley right after being like, I think I like this song, but I can't tell yet.

I might not release it.

And it was Finn's favorite song.

He was obsessed with it.

And so I dropped it and it was really fun.

Oh my God.

All of these are like the most insane lyrics.

Like, holy shit.

I'm hiding behind these cards.

This song is anything but love off my So Close to What Deluxe.

This was my most unhinged song I've ever written in my life, I think.

Again, I wrote this with Julia Michaels who I wrote Sports Car with.

This was one of those songs where I was like, I want a really classical chorus.

I want trap beats.

And this again came so fast.

We wrote this in 20, 30 minutes.

She's a Sagittarius, so she's very spicy and fiery, and I'm a Cancer, so I'm very reserved and whatever.

And she always pushes me over the edge when it comes to lyrics.

Whenever I think of them, I'm like, I can't say that, and she's like, you have to say that.

So it was really fun.

It was a cool process.

The biggest difference between Tatiana and Tate, honestly, I think it's just the persona that I put on when I go on stage.

Or maybe it's just like a placebo that I've created in my head where

as soon as I lock into this other person, I could get on any stage and not feel a single nerve.

It feels like Tatiana is like every single coach I've ever had, my mom, my dancers.

It feels like I have like a gang up there with me like spiritually and in my like aura.

I feel so powerful.

I feel like I could do anything.

Thank you.

Okay.

I see you eyeing me down but you'll never know much past my name.

This is from Greedy.

I love the song.

I remember this time of my life so clearly.

It was 2023 and I felt like I was just transforming so much and I think I was 19, and I was like, I need to make big shifts in my life.

Like, I feel like a new grown woman.

I've been living in LA since I was 17.

And I just knew that I wanted to make pop music.

And I knew I had to get in with really great pop songwriters and learn as much as I could about it.

Gritty was one of our first swings in this album.

And for the longest time, I hated the song.

And then Tether convinced me to release it, which thank God.

I'm a big tweaker so I write the songs and I could go in like 20 times, 60 times and rewrite a million lyrics.

And for this one it initially started as obvious

that you want me but I said I keep to myself and I was like this is lame, like why?

Don't keep to yourself, you're 20, you're like having fun.

So then when we cracked like obvious that you want me

but I said I would want myself I think I was like this feels like it's radiating the feeling I wanted.

I have a very specific memory of me

and Jason Momoa on SNL doing like a little tick -tock to it

and I remember the song had just come out

and just just feel like I had like a viral song

and Jason Momoa was singing to it I was like this is crazy

and I was on SNL it was the coolest day of my life okay doesn't mess you up

that you had it and you lost it this is from nobody's girl this is It's such a fun song to me.

I wrote this coming off of my European tour.

I just had been spending so many weeks in the grass, in Munich, and in Vienna,

and all these places, and I was just very spiritually in tune.

And I felt like writing this song described exactly how I felt at the time, when I was just like, I feel like I should be so sad right now, but I feel very free are you still

nobody's girl I am that's private okay baby

I ain't saying you don't know me well it's just not the shit I need baby baby I just not the

This song was just kind of talking about how relationships feel the most impactful through actions

and I think really vulnerable moments and sometimes all the extra shit is like so

unnecessary and that's what was the premise of the song.

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All right, this is, I can't tell if you want to kill me or if you want to kiss me.

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This is for my song, Like I Do.

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This was one of the last additions to my album.

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My whole album had gotten leaked at this point, and I was like, let's just go make music by myself.

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I don't want to meet anyone in here, and we started writing this song.

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This was like a freestyled chorus on the mic, and then this little bit was so fun to write.

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Just talking about that obsession feeling when you feel like someone's staring at you and you're like,

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I literally can't tell if you want to murder me right now or if you want to be in my skin.

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And so I think that was the idea of it.

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about things I never met.

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X's, this is X's.

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All of these songs are such Hail Mary songs that happened in moments of lightning strikes of inspiration.

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We had to finish up the album so fast after Greedy came out.

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And I went to the studio with Tedder and I was like, I wanna write the most pop song we've ever written.

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and we just started writing this and again it happened in like an hour

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and a half two hours then we filmed the music video like three weeks later

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and I remember the music video is this was

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so fun I just felt like I was fully getting to tap into this like pop character

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that I dreamed of in my head and pictured in my head for so long

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god I'm literally scared of all these okay

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if you say she's nothing to worry about then why'd you close your eyes

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when you said it out loud um this is such a throwback this is she's all i want to be

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i wrote this as a ballad

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when i was 17 with greg kirsten then i remember being

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like hey can you just like try putting electric guitars on this

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and he did and it turned into this like big pop song It's

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so funny to see my perspective on everything when I was 17, 18, because I was just so insecure and in my head all the time.

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And this was a perfect depiction of how I felt at the time living in L .A.

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I just think as you get older, you obviously get a lot more self -assured.

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And at the time, I was just so sad.

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I mean, I still feel like I am sad sometimes, but I was constantly, like, manifesting.

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I felt like really.

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negative things i try to avoid that sometimes in songwriting because i think

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the power of your tongue is so true and what you write is so real it all comes out

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all right now suddenly you're asking for it back could you tell me where'd you get the nerve

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this is from my song you broke me first which i wrote when i was 16.

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This was kind of my first big hit, which was a fever dream because I was still finishing high school.

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I remember doing hundreds of radio interviews, like mid -math class.

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It was just such a grind.

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I remember I was stuck in Calgary, like being like, get me to LA.

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This is insane.

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And I was in my basement the whole time just doing Zoom writing sessions.

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It was brutal.

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I knew I just wanted to pursue this as a career and that I couldn't really do it from my home.

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I wanted to be in with all the songwriters and the producers.

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It wasn't necessarily L .A in particular, it was just like wanting to be in the mix and just like start my career.

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I was so sick of high school at that point.

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This was about, I think it was a mix between a crush I had

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and a friend I had and it was two of them together

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and I remember just feeling so betrayed

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and let down by my probably ex -best friend at age 16

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and my crush being like rejected I wrote one song in

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LA on a writing trip came back got this song back like four months later

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and then just dropped it like it was the simpler times

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and I would just like write and drop just upload on Spotify immediately

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oh see now we're finishing on a wholesome note thank god people are gonna think I'm a freak

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okay I think about a hundred thoughts

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and you are 99 this was the first song I ever wrote not ever like

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but I ever wrote and published on YouTube and I was 13

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and I titled it I wrote a song dot dot dot

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and wrote it in 20 minutes put it online

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and within like a week this thing had like 30 million views

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and my parents were like what the hell is going on and it was what started this all

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now I look back I'm like okay you were a fetus I was like I'm

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so broken and so tortured i think it's so beautiful

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that i literally had no fears at all about putting all

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my feelings online for like two years during high school i think that's pretty ballsy

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and i give props to myself for that at 13 to just be like okay let's do it

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What is the Shadowing Technique?

Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.

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