Tate McRae turns up the heat in a vintage Moschino bikini on the cover of Rolling Stone’s January 2026 issue. Carin Backoff
Tate McRae is turning up the heat in the January 2026 issue of Rolling Stone, one teeny tiny designer bikini at a time.
The cover of the magazine features the “Greedy” singer wearing a white Moschino string bikini with red hearts from 2001, in both a pose and style reminiscent of the peak pop princess era of the early millennium.
But the rest of the photos? They’re 100% Tatiana, the singer’s fearless performance alter-ego.
The pop star modeled a Poster Girl chérie blossom slip dress in a car with a matching cherry-red interior. Carin Backoff
After coming in third on “So You Think You Can Dance: The Next Generation,” McRae contemplated moving to Germany to become a professional ballerina. Carin Backoff
Nearly a decade before her massively successful Miss Possessive Tour, McRae got her first taste of fame when she came in third in the 2016 season of “So You Think You Can Dance: The Next Generation.”
The professional dancer launched her singing career the following year on YouTube, going viral with the somber single, “One Day.”
Soon after, she signed with RCA Records in 2019 and released her first EP in 2020 titled “All The Things I Never Said.”
Pictured above wearing a vintage Chanel blazer from 1997 with coordinating bikini bottoms from 1994. Carin Backoff
The singer posed in a second Chanel bikini, also from 1994, with vintage Chanel button earrings. Carin Backoff
Her fans, lovingly dubbed “Tater Tots,” have often compared McRae’s dancing and vocal style to Britney Spears; several have advocated for her to star as the Grammy winner in a biopic.
“I need to take an acting lesson before I’d even consider ever doing anything,” MacRae told Rolling Stone.
“And also, I feel like I look nothing like her or sound nothing like her, so I don’t know if I’d be a great fit.”
The cherry-themed shoot also featured a vintage Dolce & Gabbana bikini from 1996 paired with a gray Ann Demeulemeester sweater. Carin Backoff
She channeled early-aughts pop star style in a red lace vintage bodysuit and vintage bootcut jeans with heels by Amina Muaddi. Carin Backoff
But the Tater Tots — and everyone else in McRae’s orbit — know she can achieve almost anything.
“Tate is the most obvious triple threat I’ve ever seen, in terms of songwriting, vocals, and dancing,” shared frequent collaborator Amy Allen. “I feel like she’s a god in real life. But honestly, a huge reason why it’s so easy for the world to fall in love with her is because she’s just a kind, humble, real person.
As for what McRae sees in her future? Hopefully, there’s some rewarding reprieve amidst her rise to stardom. “I feel I’ve aged 10 years in the past year,” she confessed.
Even then, she’d only be 32 — still much younger than any of the vintage swimsuits she wore for this photoshoot — with plenty of time to come up with her next act.
