Tate McRae has been revealed as the girl with whom Morgan Wallen recorded his first male/feminine duet, “What I Need,” and never everyone seems to be on board with it.

Wallen has been teasing his first-ever feminine duet since he started selling his new album, I am the Drawback, which dropped on April 16, 2025.

Followers of McRae have been fast to react to the information on-line, with a lot of them splitting alongside predictable sociopolitical strains:

“I used to be rooting for you, we have been all rooting for you! How dare you?” one person demanded (quote through USA In the present day).

“Now why would you go and do this?” requested one other, whereas nonetheless one other commented, “Woman we love you pls cancel that collab with Wallen pls.”

Wallen has actually attracted his justifiable share of controversy through the years.

Followers are already aware of his arrest on Could 23, 2020. Nashville police arrested Wallen that evening after he was kicked out of Child Rock‘s bar in downtown Nashville for reportedly kicking glass gadgets contained in the institution.

Alcohol additionally performed a task within the notorious February 2021 incident during which Wallen was caught on digicam utilizing the N-word, which he later admitted occurred on the tail finish of a 72-hour consuming bender.

That resulted in his label suspending him, whereas nation radio dropped his music for a time and he was barred from collaborating within the main awards reveals that 12 months. Police weren’t concerned in that incident, and Wallen was not arrested.

Wallen additionally obtained arrested after throwing a chair off the highest ground of Eric Church‘s bar in Nashville in April of 2024. He is about to serve 11 months and 29 days of supervised probation for every rely. They’ll run consecutive to one another for an efficient sentence of two years, with all however seven days of that point suspended.

Wallen’s new album, I am the Drawback, dropped on April 16.