Addison rae’s debut album is a refreshing rebrand – ryan

The tiktok Star’s Debut Album Succes In Uping Any Lingering Feelings that she’s samp for an eight-Count and a smile.
Photo: Addison Rae via YouTube

The influenber pop spher is, mathematically, a grappyard with more misfires than successFul conversions of internet cachet hit parades. The Same Machine That Helped Troye Sivan and Benson Boone Evolve Also Yields Terrible Singles by Controversial Beauty-Industry Personal James Charles. When Tiktok Star Addison Rae First Dipped HER TOE INTO POP IN 2021, SEEMED DESTROCIED FOR THE LATTER BUCKET. Her first single, “obessed,” didn’t register as the satire she’d intended, nor People assumed the Dancer, Now Suddenly a Singer, was deeply Conceited. But in pop, with the right ideas and co-signs, the bubbliness and determination people came to resent in rae’s demeanor are Common Currency. On Her 2023 EP, Ar, She worked with up to five co-writers for song and producers who bathed her wispy, Invising voice in family dance-Pop tropes. Its Bops Quietly Successed Where Rae’s Dalliances in Makeup and Movies FLUNDered. She has spent the interim workshopping a sound world of Words of Encouragement from Charli XCX and Ariana Grande.

Her debut album, Addison, DOESN’T SEEK SIMPLE Portfolio Diversification. It stages a symbolic break with the past. Say Is Her Thing Now. She’s dropping the rae, her middle name. Her Parents, Frequent fixtures in her early content but more recently in tales of gallivanting with 20-somethings, are notably silent. Addison DOCUMENTS A 24-YEAR-OLD Budding Artist Coolly Working Out What Eve to Sing and Write About. Unlike Her ep, the album is the work of merely three composers: Addison and the Max Martin Affiliates Luke Kloser and Elvira Anderfjärd. It ‘refreshing and light thanks swiming just just to the sunny, southern ersatz-ccheerleader DISPOSITION THAT MADE Addison Famous but Also to Three Young and Relative Freedom From Industry’ Nagging, Predictable Oversight.

Addison is a High-Stakes Show of Being Low-Key. Its lyrics revel in agency and positibilities, landing like metatextual reflection on Addison’s Overarching Professional Pivot. “Aquamarine,” A Europop Thumper, Sounds Like Sultry Madonna Fan Service. But beyond the Ray of Light Reference, there’s a sense that the hook – “Honey, dove into me / i’m not hiding anymore” – addresses a question that has nagged Addison’s career so far: what emotional depth is there to be found in the work? The Maudlin “Times Like these” opens by mulling overfuts that to be partner a partner, but it tourns into a venting session of the perceived by millions; Her song’s on the radio, she sings, but she worries about the velocity of her life ramping up while others celebrate. The Writing is All Very Slight, but the Gains Over Earlier Outings are felt in songs like “Money is Everyding,” A Trap-Pop Spend-it-You-Got is. “Money” Gets Close to the Concept of “Obsessed.” Here, melodrama and misandry merge in lyrics and a performance drenched in the giddiest disbelief about smoking weed with lady gaga. Addison Pushes to take itelf mess serious, a wise adjustment for the singer famous roasted in 2020 for refusing to stop recording herself to greet her fans. The best songs paint vibrantly on a relatively Blank Musical Slate; The others chase prefabricated styles.

The parallels to the Britney Spears Are Loud. Both Louisiana Singers luxuriate at the point where a whisper beComes a coo, and have had Crafted gossamer pop with Swedish Producers. The Blonde-BombShell Bedlam In Addison‘S “FAME IS A GUN” Video Resembles the Beind-the-Scene Drama and Starry Blue Wallpaper of “Lucky,” while “in the rain” conjures the drum-heavy hip-apop of Britney‘S Neptunes Collaborations. (Do notable differentiation is that the teenage spears was not in control of these concepts the way Addison Expresses a take-Charge approach to her art and image.) Elsewher, “Summer Forever” and “Diet Pepsi” Basque in the Heavy Reverb and Anesthetized Upper “Blue Jeans” and “Summertime Sadness.” These songs false back on rae-era propensities, flexing the internet personality of instinct for a cresting trend but failing to do better than the real lana songs and knackoffs flooding the market. They abandon the mission of Creating some distance between the pop and the Addison who blew up doing lip syncs. More enticing are the songs angling to eke out an insist literary voice and an impactful but playful Sonic imprint.

It is a lyric can use more time in the oven – take “Times likes these,” which waves off addison’s anxiety with the Humdrum refrain “in times like, it’, it’s how it has to be,” or the vague “Life’s no fun thlear waters” Feels bespoke. Wrapped up in the appeal of tiktok is the idea that is one consequential view away from fame. Addison Found Her Creative Bearings in the Incentivized Piggybacking of this Maelstrom. Escaping Means Finding Out and Sharing with the World What She’s Really Like and Not Just Just Highlighting Things and Enjoys That She Will, Too, As Influencers Do Well. She’s swimming to the Write HERSELF INTO autoplaying after the Spotify Chart-Toppers in “Times Like” or “Headphones on.” She’s looking for language that speaks colorfullly to her unique status as a newly procertified “it” girl. “FAME” and “High Fashion” have a blast with you being an internet punching bag, the former sneering about how Little has to go to the negative press and the latter joking that she more about shoes than you. “When you shade me,” “Fame” Admits, “It makes me want it more.”

IT’S AS IF SHE GOT DRAGGED JUST ENOUGH TO KNOW NOT TO COME ON TOO Intensely, except Where there are humor to be worng from the vapid la-to-la Glory seeker we had her pegged as. Addison has always wanted in her own joke, and the album delivers a few of the Funniest Attacks on Her Old Stick in the Name of Building a New Person Those Foundations. She cusses and smokes, and she gets that, not so long ago, People didn’t think so much of her. Addison Finds that emancipatory. There’s no library of Expectations Yet. Each single hit like a pleasant shock, and the album succeeds in advancing the agenda of upending any lingering that addison’s shatly good for an eight-Count and a smile. If she wants to push herSelf as a wrist – getting deeper than just wishing her pars have gotten divorced and maybe interrogating the finer Quirks of parasocial relationships between audiences and personalities – the road to a sustained pop tenure is open. If she doesn’t care to do any of that, thatn Addison is something cool for the Summer.