“What’s Your Problem?” by Tate McRae 

Now getting deeper into Tate McRae’s “I Used to Think I Could Fly” album, it’s becoming increasingly obvious that she, despite being pretty young at the time (she’ll turn 19 a couple of days after this post), is someone who has experience with heartbreak, and we can say more specifically dealing with a toxic partner. 

You can view the lyrics, alternate interprations and sheet music for Tate McRae's What's Your Problem? at Lyrics.org.

As with some of the other tracks found on the album which we have analyzed thus far, in this case the nature of her relationship with the addressee is not specified, nor are there gender pronouns used in describing said individual. But the implication, all lyrics considered, would be that this person is a romantic interest, i.e. her ex.

“What’s Your Problem?”

The premise behind the titular query is Tate coming to the conclusion that he is someone who enjoys seeing her suffer. But she doesn’t know why he’s like this. In other words, the vocalist, by the looks of things, once loved the addressee with all her heart. She also basically allowed him to lock her down, even though mom cheese herself was less-than-impressed with Tate’s choice.

In hindsight, the singer realizes that she should have taken her mother’s dislike for the addressee more seriously. That is to say that as time progressed, Tate came to realize that the guy she digs is akin to a conceited psychopath, i.e. someone who really thinks highly of himself but revels in seeing her suffer, as brought about via his own actions.

And indeed, there is a bit of, shall we say hardcore psychology being thrown around in this piece. For instance, Tate asserts that this individual ‘made her hate herself just so that she would love him more’ which, all things considered, is perhaps a statement we shouldn’t try to delve too deeply into. But what it all boils down to is the vocalist now knowing that the addressee is toxic.  But the actual beef, if you will, is that on top of coming to this realization problematically late, she also can’t understand what it is that’s feeding his cruelty.

Lyrics to "What's Your Problem?"

Release Date

“What’s Your Problem?” is not to be confused with “What Would You Do?“, which is another track found on Tate McRae’s debut full-length, “I Used to Think I Could Fly”.

This song was made public by RCA Records on 27 May 2022.

Did Tate McRae write “What’s Your Problem?”?

This track was co-written and co-produced by Jackson Foote, a musician some readers may be more familiar with as part of a duo known as Loote. He wrote the song with Kinetics and Tate and produced it with KBeaZy.

What's Your Problem?

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