内容摘要：, according to the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report published this year.

, according to the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report published this year.

Jensen McRae almost shelved her viral hit “Massachusetts,” but after Justin Bieber cosigned the song, it became the closing track for her new album, “I Don’t Know How But They Found Me!” (April 25)Resilience has long been a motif in McRae’s songwriting. Her debut album, “Are You Happy Now?”, deftly tackled sexual predators and racist microaggressions with poetic meditations on identity, love, growth and beauty. On the album’s most-streamed song, the ballad “My Ego Dies in the End,” she sings, “If I don’t write about it, was it really worth it?”

“There’s this quote that I can’t cite, but someone said, as a writer, you’ve experienced enough by the age of 25 to have writing material for the rest of your life. I don’t know if everyone agrees with that statement, but I certainly do,” McRae said. It’s years of practice, and reflection, that have brought clarity to those experiences.“I Don’t Know How But They Found Me!” is composed of songs McRae wrote throughout her early 20s, in the wake of one relationship and the rise and fall of another. She finished the album last spring in North Carolina with producer Brad Cook, a collaborator of. The 10 days they spent on the record, McRae said, were “a master class.”

“Jensen flat out blew me away on every single level,” said Cook, who met McRae for the first time when she arrived for the session. “I got a master class from her as well, frankly. Jensen’s just so organized, emotionally and spiritually, it was just really easy to go where the songs needed to go.”of McRae singing the first verse of her song “

,” accrued millions of TikTok views in the fall of 2023, well before it was released in full in July 2024.

While the internet’s interest in “Immune” two years prior was momentarily destabilizing (“There’s a meme of Patrick (from ‘SpongeBob’) coming home to his rock, and there are all these eyes poking out and he goes, ‘Who are you people?’ That was what I felt like,” McRae says), its embrace of “Massachusetts” was confusing for other reasons.The foot-tapping grooves that weaved throughout this debut continue with “It Ain’t Easy,” “Funeral,” and

But the Atlanta-area native continues to find his bullseye with ballads.Teddy Swims poses for a portrait on Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Gary Gerard Hamilton)

Teddy Swims poses for a portrait on Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Gary Gerard Hamilton)“Are you even real / Or did I make you up? / How could someone like you / wanna give me love?” begins the