Addison Rae

The three singles for her upcoming debut album have been pretty good.

"Diet Pepsi" made it into ILM's top 10 tracks of 2024.

I think she deserves her own thread.

Love diet pepsi. Lana pastiche

New single out today: “high fashion” sounds like Banks.

Love all three of these songs/videos. She’s the real deal. Also the chorus of “High Fashion” has one of the craziest chord progressions I’ve ever heard in a pop song

Rebranding herself as an ingenue-coquette popstar was a good move, it fits her. It hasn’t been done in the mainstream in a while. Britney championed it in “one more time” and Lana Del Rey was a darker spin on it on the Born to Die and Lizzy Grant era.

Her music has had some great production and interesting musical ideas in these three singles. Her debut album should be great if she continues this streak.

whoa "high fashion" is great, what a video.

lana pastiche sure but she has beats and these can be played in a club.

I always get her confused with Madison Beer.

Re: the wild chord progression in the chorus and bridge of "High Fashion" to my ears it's giving ominous medieval polyphony, like in Guillaume de Machaut's Messe de Nostre Dame:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33yR2-vXblo

Whether it's intentional or not (probably not), it's a really cool and unusual place for a pop song to go harmonically.

"I know how to make the hard things look really easy"

Whether it's intentional or not (probably not)

pointless to speculate but some of these professional songwriters know an awful lot.. i wouldn't be surprised if luka kloser or tove burman or .. ELVIRA.. knows their kyries

feels like pop lately has been trying to be "dark" whatever that means - maybe it just means catholic? see also the new gaga album.

I always get her confused with Madison Beer.

The Addison Rae / Tate McRae / Madison Beer axis is a tricky one...

Anyways, the new single ("Headphones On") is fantastic!!

She definitely put in the work, every single so far has been great.

Consider me a Raecist. Or however her fans call themselves.

I must’ve listened to “Headphones On” at least 20 times y’day…

“Aquamarine” is the (slightly) weakest of the four tracks, but even that one is pretty solid. It has a “2000s Madonna” feel to me?

I thought her EP was alright but I don't really like any of the recent singles. She's in that Selena Gomez zone where she sounds too afraid of the microphone to get a take that communicates anything besides the melody.

I would counter that the main idea/value of these songs isn’t really “expression” (and it hasn’t stopped Selena from releasing a few of the best singles of the past decade!)

The lack of pop histrionism is why I like her!

oh that's right people here thought "bad liar" was good

'madison beer' sounds like an artist concocted by AI to appeal to college kids in the Greek system

“headphones on” is incredible

as someone who has never liked selena gomez’s music i think addison’s best songs are a cut above that kinda middling pop fare for two reasons

1. her lyrics are way more memorable. “losing all my innocence in the backseat” and “need a cigarette to make me feel better” are standout contemporary pop lyrics imo. she’s also willing to go there lyrically and it doesn’t feel like rote provocation — selena would never sing “my ass looks good in these ripped blue jeans / my cheeks are red like cherries in the spring” … instead we get PG-13 stuff like “good for you”

2. addison has actual taste… or is able to project having cultivated her own taste. moving out of tiktok influencer charli d’amelio land and into charli xcx/PC music world before brat blew up, arca remixes, even that she works with the same duo of non-famous producers. so when she releases a trip-hoppy single you feel like she actually has a genuine connection with the source material. when selena gomez sampled the talking heads you didn’t feel like it was because she is a huge david byrne stan. maybe that’s unfair to selena but pop stardom is about what image you can convincingly sell to the public. i think what addison’s doing right now is really savvy — she’s a tiktok influencer signed to columbia who nonetheless is operating as this sort of renegade marching to the beat of her own drum on the fringes of mainstream pop. she is the anti-industry plant industry plant. and that persona threads thru to the music, what she gets away with lyrically etc

The almost cartoonishly aggressive sexuality of the lyrics/videos feels a few ticks away from camp to me (but I'll leave that others to trace). It's part of the whole concept for sure.

I don't really see the comparison to Selena beyond in the most basic sense... I think the lyrics of her best songs are also pretty good/memorable, just in a different mode.

It has a “2000s Madonna” feel to me?

I realized (listening in the car) that this song's lyric includes the line I'm the ray of light... so I probably don't deserve an Influence Spotter Award for this particular observation.^^

Album out June 6... looks like every song was done by the same team. It's also billed as "The first & last album by Addison Rae" for some reason, lol

love that cover

I don't really see the comparison to Selena beyond in the most basic sense...

"diet pepsi" in particular is very post-lana del rey midtempo dark moody pop to me, very much in the vein of a lot of selena gomez songs, just... a lot better in every conceivable way

She definitely put in the work, every single so far has been great.

Consider me a Raecist. Or however her fans call themselves.

― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 19 April 2025 05:12 (four days ago) link

lmao

marketing this as her "final" album seems just like a way to invite discussion. maybe she is nodding to the end of the album as a relevant format? she came up through tik tok...

diet pepsi is one of my favorite songs of the past few years.

xxp Fair enuff... I guess these Rae tracks feel like weightless Euro confectionery to me – in the best possible way! – and activate a very different pleasure center in my brain than those other artists (but it's possible my reception is misaligned with the intention behind them).

Are there any truly “similar” tracks to Headphones On? It’s the kind of song that feels like it must have some key antecedents… but every track I revisit (or sample off a playlist) feels like it’s missing a key part of the vibe/sound.