{"id":44986,"date":"2025-09-26T19:54:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T19:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/44986\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T19:54:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T19:54:08","slug":"is-tate-mcraes-tit-for-tat-about-the-kid-laroi-lyrics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/44986\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Tate McRae’s “TIT FOR TAT” About The Kid Laroi? Lyrics"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tate McRae and The Kid Laroi appear to be going ~tit for tat~<\/a> with breakup songs about each other. After dating for more than a year and calling it quits in July 2025, the singers are seemingly addressing the split through their lyrics. (Their adorable love song collab, \u201cI Know Love,\u201d really feels like a billion years ago now.)<\/p>\n

Shortly after breakup rumors surfaced, Laroi told a fan on X, \u201cTate and I are on good terms<\/a>.\u201d But is that still the case? On September 5, the Australian artist released a new single, \u201cA COLD PLAY,\u201d about how he couldn\u2019t \u201cfix\u201d an ex. Just three weeks later, Tate released her own single, \u201cTIT FOR TAT,\u201d and it really feels like a response track. I mean, the title alone hints at retaliation.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s officially time for a lyrics breakdown: Here\u2019s why fans think Tate\u2019s new song, \u201cTIT FOR TAT,\u201d is a response to The Kid Laroi\u2019s song, \u201cA COLD PLAY.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

What Does Tate McRae Say About The Kid Laroi In \u201cTIT FOR TAT\u201d?<\/p>\n

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Tate revealed that she wrote \u201cTIT FOR TAT\u201d just two weeks before its release \u2014 meaning she wrote it one week after Laroi dropped \u201cA COLD PLAY.\u201d It\u2019s also the first song title she\u2019s stylized in all caps. And who\u2019s known for doing that with all his tracks? Yup, that would be Laroi. Those are the non-lyrical clues that Tate wrote \u201cTIT FOR TAT\u201d as a response to her ex.<\/p>\n

In the new single, the pop princess sounds fed up with how her ex is spinning the story of their breakup. \u201cI was nothing but respectful, and you know that,\u201d she sings. \u201cWhy you changing up the narrative to write?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThought I might love you again, see how I feel,\u201d she croons in the chorus. \u201cNow that you\u2019re acting like that, boy I never will.\u201d Tate also hints at a new girl in her ex\u2019s life: \u201cLast night, she answered my call, it sealed the deal \/ Right now, I\u2019m not even about you.\u201d<\/p>\n

The line, \u201cFix your fucking self, kiss my ass for that,\u201d seems like a pointed reference to \u201cA COLD PLAY,\u201d where Laroi sings, \u201cIt\u2019s my fault for thinking I could fix you, fix you, fix you.\u201d (In his track, he also admits that he \u201cstill loves\u201d her and claims he gave \u201ceverything I had and even more.\u201d)<\/p>\n

The most telling \u201cTIT FOR TAT\u201d lyric of them all? \u201cLet\u2019s go song for song, let\u2019s go back to back \/ Let\u2019s go tit for tat, boy, you asked for that,\u201d Tate declares.<\/p>\n

Hey, I\u2019d also be pissed if a man released a song about how he couldn\u2019t \u201cfix\u201d me. Will Laroi release a response track to the (rumored) response track? Stay tuned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tate McRae and The Kid Laroi appear to be going ~tit for tat~ with breakup songs about each…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44987,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[430,156,157,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-44986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}