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I Used to Think I Could Fly

2022 studio album by Tate McRae

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 1, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

I Used to Think I Could Fly is the debut studio album by Canadian singer and dancer Tate McRae, released on May 27, 2022, through RCA Records. It was preceded by the singles "Feel Like Shit", "She's All I Wanna Be", "Chaotic" and "What Would You Do?". "Don't Come Back" was released as a promotional single from the record and received an official music video. McRae embarked on a tour in support of the album in June 2022. Described as a pop, dance-pop, and bedroom pop record, I Used to Think I Could Fly was met with positive reviews from music critics, and saw commercial success. It entered the top 10 in various countries and debuted at number thirteen on the US Billboard 200.

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“I Used to Think I Could Fly” enters the record as 2022 studio album by Tate McRae. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Used, Think and Could can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2022—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Used, Think and Could.
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This entry incorporates text from “I Used to Think I Could Fly” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.