“I would want myself, baby, please believe me. I put you through hell, just to know me, yeah, yeah. So sure of yourself, baby, don’t get greedy.” Do these lyrics sound familiar? Over the past couple of years, fame has cast its spotlight on Tate McRae, with her skills as a triple threat—a singer, a dancer, and a songwriter.

But she wasn’t always a prominent figure in the music industry. At a young age, she released the single, “You Broke Me First,” and her musical career made its emergence. Since then, she has continued to release pop albums and singles, such as her most recent, “Greedy” and “Exes” and now “It’s Ok, I’m Ok.”

As a listener, the new single stayed in my head for quite a bit.

However, there were some thoughts that drifted into my brain as the lyrics artfully passed by each moment. Was this a notable single for McRae’s career or did it just not live up to the expectations of her recent hits?

The context of this song’s origin only added to the intrigue. Claiming that her ex’s new girlfriend could “have him anyway” she teased it on August 3 while performing at Lalapalooza. Finally, she released “It’s Ok, I’m Ok” on September 12, where the promotional media got 11 million views and the official lyric video got 356k views as of September 27.

Initially, the song started off with Tate’s signature beat with her falsetto toned voice and convivial instrumental beats. But as I listened, the lyrics blended together like a needle and thread, over and under the music until eventually it came to a halt. In the brief second of silence amidst the soft whirring of preparation, there was an onset of mundaneness. There was a certain quality of repetitiveness within the beat, which might have proved to be successful as observed in her other hits such as “Greedy” and “She’s All I Want To Be,” but that didn’t uplift this single to those raised heights and expectations.

Criticisms aside, a unique aspect of the song was Tate’s lyrical choice to separate the “any” and “way” in the word “anyway”. The consistent use of the word added a clever transition to the next part of the post chorus. Other noteworthy features of the song included fast pacing of the story and message it told to the audience. But despite some redeemable qualities of this piece, this single failed to become a noteworthy representation of Tate McRae’s striking musical career.

As a dedicated listener to Tate McRae and other artists, I can only bide my time for the next creative hit.