Tate McRae was not expecting all of the criticism she received after collaborating with Morgan Wallen.

“Honestly, country music is huge where I’m from,” McRae, 22, told Rolling Stone for her cover story published on Thursday, December 11 — referring to her hometown of Calgary, Canada. “My brother’s always been a rabid country-music fan. I’ve always wanted, at some point in my life, to do folk music or country, and I probably still will in the future.”

McRae said when she was asked to be featured on Wallen’s single “What I Want,” she just thought it was a “cool” opportunity.

“But I honestly just got the opportunity to do a country song, and I was like, ‘Oh, this is cool.’ And I wanted to cross genres really bad,” she explained to the outlet. “It was just about the song for me. I didn’t r

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