what would you do?

"what would you do?" is a track of Tate’s debut album "i used to think i could fly" and is the fourth single off the album. She has used TikTok to tease the song multiple times, starting February 28, 2022.

Tate McRae’s “what would you do?” really isn’t overtly romantic, but the logical implication would be that the vocalist is addressing her boyfriend. Premise-wise, he is presented as someone who ‘takes her for granted’. Moreover, Tate is convinced that he’s conceited.

So the question she is asking in the title, in full, basically boils down to ‘what would he do’ if she suddenly and irrevocably dumped him. And if so, Tate will do him in a way so that it really hurts. But in the vocalist’s mind, that wouldn’t be doing him dirty. Rather, it would be his just compensation if she mercilessly excommunicated him, ‘giving back all the pain’ he has made her endure.

But this is just a “hope” of the vocalist since, as it currently stands, she doesn’t know how he will react. So it can be said that this track revolves around a revenge fantasy, though really what’s being insinuated is that Tate hopes the addressee wises up and starts to treat her right.