During the summer of 2022, 24-year-old musical multihyphenate Cate was experiencing what you might describe as a “chaos era.” On the cusp of the October release of her soaring country-pop EP Tell Me Things You Won’t Take Back – which, thanks to its blend of touching emotional honesty and earworm songcraft, now boasts over 30 million global streams – she was between apartments, travelling constantly for sessions and shows, and her dating life was, as she puts it with a side-eye, “rogue.”
