ADDISON

Addison Rae has successfully taken her fame on social media and done an impressive makeover by transforming herself into a credible pop music performer. Born Addison Rae Easterling, the Lafayette, Louisiana native first gained attention through her dance videos on Tik Tok back in 2019 and amassing well over a million viewers in just a few months. As those numbers grew to millions more on the app (currently at eighty-eight), Rae was lured to Los Angeles, signed with a talent agency and quickly started a podcast with her mother, launched her own cosmetics line and made her acting debut in a remake of the 1999 teen comedy "She's All That".

In between all of that, she had released a song called "Obsessed" in 2021 which gained some attention yet was largely dismissed. An EP, "AR" soon followed and helped people begin to notice Rae's musical abilities. But it was a guest appearance on Charli XCX's remix of her single, "Von Dutch" when people began to really look at Rae in a different light. Then last August, the single, "Diet Pepsi" was released and became Rae's pop music kickstart. The song went on to become a top-twenty hit in several countries and gave Rae her first entry on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart.

Now Rae's debut album, "Addison" has been released. Teaming with Swedish music producers, Elvira Anderfjärd, and Luka Kloser (who had worked on "Diet Pepsi"), Rae co-wrote all of the songs with them on the album. And while the material isn't particularly groundbreaking, the music is perfectly fun and catchy, bringing to mind the rise of Britney Spears back in the late '90's whose career this twenty-four year old seems to emulating whether she's conscious of it or not. Rae has even planned her first concert tour, "The Addison Tour" set to begin in Ireland near the end of August that will take her across North America, Europe and Australia. Despite her dubious beginnings, Rae seems to be the real deal and could have a promising, long music career ahead of her.