Addison Rae for The New York Times (she mentions Gaga)

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In 2021, she released her first single, “Obsessed” — “I actually think one day ‘Obsessed’ will get its ‘Stars Are Blind’ moment,” she said, referring to the once-derided, now-embraced Paris Hilton single.

Despite the negative feedback, she kept writing. “I didn’t let it get to me that much,” she said. “Me not stopping writing was kind of me being like, ‘OK, well, I’ll show you.’”

The following year, oodles of her leaked recordings — “day-one demos, pretty much” — hit the internet. For Rae, it was frustrating, but also free market research. Fans picked their favorites — “I’ve actually seen people make CDs,” Rae said — and Charli XCX reached out to ask to contribute a verse on one of them, “2 Die 4.”

The leaks turned Rae from a try-hard would-be pop diva into a cult favorite. “People were like, ‘Wait, why do I kind of like this?’” she said, almost bashfully. Eventually, Rae independently released an EP, “AR,” collecting some of those songs.

“My biggest goal is to never feel like I’m referencing an exact song or artist,” she said, noting that a mood can be struck by the simple deployment of a familiar-sounding instrument that evokes an era, in this case the early ’90s. “We used an M1 on a lot of the songs,” she said, referring to the Korg instrument, “and that was a very popular thing that was used on a lot of those great songs that I love.”

But when pushed to describe what the pure pop icons she admires — Madonna, Gaga, Britney, Prince, Janet — have in common, her answer was “commitment.” Which is to say — commitment to a sound, commitment to a style, commitment to a fully inhabited presentation.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/arts/music/addison-rae-addison-album.html

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She’s cute but this heavily stylized minimalistic visual aesthetic is so boring imo

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39 minutes ago, FfFfFfFF said:

Madonna

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3 minutes ago, InTheCloset said:

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/-7o_mYGakX8

Her music does give 90s trip-hop Madonna!

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2 minutes ago, FfFfFfFF said:

Madonna!

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