Uh Oh!

Album: I Used to Think I Could Fly (2022)
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Songfacts®:

  • "Uh Oh!" is a shuddery electro-pop banger about Tate McRae's relationship with the wrong kind of man. She knows he's bad for her but can't help herself and follows her passion.
  • Uh-oh, I couldn't help myself
    I'm almost at your house again, again
    Uh-oh, I'm one foot in the door
    My clothes are on your floor again, again


    Tate McRae knows she's making a mistake but her lust for the man lures her back again and again to his place. "'Uh Oh' is so different from all my other songs and that's what makes me so excited about it," McRae said. "It talks about the flirty, lighthearted feeling of constantly going back to someone and the adrenaline that goes along with it."
  • Tate McRae wrote "Uh Oh!" with Billy Walsh, Ali Tamposi, and Louis Bell, who also produced the track. The four also penned "You're So Cool" along with Omer Fedi for McRae's I Used to Think I Could Fly album.
  • Before releasing the song, Tate McRae teased "Uh Oh" through her TikTok account to see if her fans liked it. When it got a favorable response, she released it as a single from the deluxe version of I Used to Think I Could Fly.

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