Tate McRae’s been on nothing short of a rocket ride during the seven years since she was a finalist on “So You Think You Can Dance” — demonstrated by the fact that in a little over three years of performing here, she’s risen from being an opening act at the Royal Oak Music Theatre to two sold-out headlining dates at Detroit’s Little Caesars Arena, the first on Saturday night, Aug. 16.
At just 22 the Calgary-born singer has undeniably entered the upper tier of pop divadom over the course of three studio albums, two EPs and a mixtape, with four Top 20 hits between them. She’s amassed a merch-gobbling fan base that knows every song lyric, even from her 2013 online uploads. And she has a videogenic savvy perhaps even more developed than some of her peers, which was deployed throughout the nea