She’s Wearing Tennessee Orange For Him: Tate McRae Appears to Confirm Morgan Wallen Collaboration

After much speculation, pop phenom Tate McRae has seemingly confirmed that she is the female feature on Morgan Wallen’s unreleased track, ‘What I Want’, through social media.

With Wallenteers initially looking towards Miranda Lambert, Ella Langley and Megan Moroney as most likely to be his female feature, no one suspected pop sensation Tate McRae to roll out her country debut on Wallen’s next album (no one, that is, except the team at Holler…).

We know that Wallen has supported McRae’s music in the past, famously reposting her cover of ‘I Had Some Help’ over on TikTok last year. And they follow each other on socials. The clues were there, you just had to really look for them.

“I myself am a huge fan of country music,” McRae revealed when she performed in Nashville last year, before bringing out her pal, Megan Moroney, to sing ‘Tennessee Orange’.

Now, it seems that McRae really is wearing Tennessee Orange for him, as she posted an Instagram story of an unmistakably orange Tennessee Volunteers jersey. Not just any jersey though, no, this one has T8 (Tate) emblazoned on the front, above which sits a small MW emblem.

With so many artists making the genre crossover, it feels somewhat more acceptable for McRae to sit as a feature on Wallen’s track, rather than bring out her own country song.

Wallen fans have learnt to expect a variety of sounds from his work, from classic country to a more trap-infused style, Wallen regularly incorporates R&B elements and really pushes the boundaries of what constitutes ‘country music’. A track featuring Tate McRae is a wild-card, but one that will sit neatly amongst this this next collection of songs, which will seemingly once again see Wallen expanding his sonic horizons.

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