{"id":2150660,"date":"2025-11-12T04:43:24","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T04:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2150660"},"modified":"2025-11-12T04:43:24","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T04:43:24","slug":"addison-rae-review-glorious-fantasy-from-pops-newest-star-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/addison-rae-review-glorious-fantasy-from-pops-newest-star-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Addison Rae review \u2013 glorious fantasy from pop\u2019s newest star | Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\"><span style=\"color:var(--drop-cap);font-weight:700\" class=\"dcr-15rw6c2\">O<\/span>n stage, two grand wrought iron-style gates merge seamlessly with the Forum theatre\u2019s famous Greco-Roman statues. Their curlicued bars twist into a giant A, seemingly inspired by the scribbles teenagers have inked in notebooks everywhere since Edward Scissorhands mainstreamed goths in 1990. Silhouetted muscle men open the gates and the screaming begins.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Addison Rae comes out to Fame Is a Gun, a single from her overwhelmingly praised debut album, Addison. The track\u2019s second verse lays out Rae\u2019s determination, which is also her charm: \u201cThere\u2019s no mystery. I\u2019m gonna make it \u2026 and when you shame me, it makes me want it more.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"b2b77f9a-c1d2-4f35-90d3-873707bdc71b\" data-spacefinder-role=\"inline\" data-spacefinder-type=\"model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.VideoYoutubeBlockElement\" class=\"dcr-173mewl\">\n<div data-component=\"youtube-embed\" class=\"dcr-1y1vf5o\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/TkwZ2uQu2hE?wmode=opaque&amp;feature=oembed\" title=\"Addison Rae - Fame is a Gun (Official Video)\" height=\"480\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Rae isn\u2019t a naturally gifted live singer but she <em>is<\/em> an incredible performer, having leveraged her competitive dance experience into a colossal TikTok following in the platform\u2019s gestational phase. She has the fifth-largest individual following on the platform with 88.3 million followers but, when she attempted to convert that audience into a pop career in 2021, her debut single, Obsessed, was unduly savaged. Sure, there\u2019s a big gap between Obsessed and Addison\u2019s pop perfection but the criticism\u2019s true undercurrent held a whiff of misogyny: \u201cWho does this TikTok girl think she is?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">It\u2019s a tale as old as the charts. Every pop idol \u2013 Britney, Christina, Miley, Ariana \u2013 has variously been lambasted for being fake or labelled industry plants at some point in their career. And into this starry lineage comes Addison Rae.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Before doors open I meet Chiara, a 20-year-old devotee who has followed Rae on TikTok since lockdown. Chiara has been lining up since 6am, one of many fans sporting fluorescent pink wigs in reference to Rae\u2019s Headphones On music video. She and her friend Astra are taking pictures of each other on a vintage digital camera no bigger than the palm of my hand: gen Z\u2019s version of millennial 35mm nostalgia.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"6f074a64-2615-442e-94c7-f0a54c887cd1\" data-spacefinder-role=\"inline\" data-spacefinder-type=\"model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.VideoYoutubeBlockElement\" class=\"dcr-173mewl\">\n<div data-component=\"youtube-embed\" class=\"dcr-13aa88h\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/XdFpzaM07i0?wmode=opaque&amp;feature=oembed\" title=\"Addison Rae - Headphones On (Official Video)\" height=\"480\" width=\"854\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cShe really encapsulates girlhood and growing up,\u201d Chiara says. \u201cA lot of the time we just have to dust things off and romanticise to get through it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The pair let out an unbridled squeal remembering Rae liking one of their comments on an Instagram post. It\u2019s the first of many from the crowd, whose screams greet each song in Rae\u2019s setlist, encompassing almost every track in her short catalogue. The biggest noise comes when Rae invites everyone to recreate her now iconic howl from Charli xcx\u2019s Von Dutch remix.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"1f8b2da1-5331-4408-9775-51d0f8f0b394\" data-spacefinder-role=\"showcase\" data-spacefinder-type=\"model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.ImageBlockElement\" class=\"dcr-5h0uf4\"><figcaption data-spacefinder-role=\"inline\" class=\"dcr-9ktzqp\"><span class=\"dcr-1inf02i\"><svg width=\"18\" height=\"13\" viewbox=\"0 0 18 13\"><path d=\"M18 3.5v8l-1.5 1.5h-15l-1.5-1.5v-8l1.5-1.5h3.5l2-2h4l2 2h3.5l1.5 1.5zm-9 7.5c1.9 0 3.5-1.6 3.5-3.5s-1.6-3.5-3.5-3.5-3.5 1.6-3.5 3.5 1.6 3.5 3.5 3.5z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><span class=\"dcr-1qvd3m6\">\u2018Incredible performer\u2019 \u2026 Addison Rae at Melbourne\u2019s Forum.<\/span> Photograph: Gabrielle Clement<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Addison\u2019s producers Elvira Anderfj\u00e4rd and Luka Kloser, who co-wrote the album with Rae, are signed to the publishing house of Max Martin, the Swedish super-producer behind dozens of hits from Britney Spears, Backstreet Boys, Katy Perry, the Weeknd, Taylor Swift and more. But it\u2019s his earliest work with Ace of Base that feels like the nostalgic 90s inspiration here, colouring the walls of Rae\u2019s on-stage fantasy mansion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">She mounts a staircase and parties under a giant crystal chandelier with her back-up dancers. Rainbow lasers light up the room. When balloons cascade from the ceiling, it feels like you\u2019ve snuck into a rich kid\u2019s house party. You can\u2019t help but root for Rae, an artist who refuses to quit. During an interlude a dancer floats across the stage under an umbrella, before thunderclouds break and she launches into the emotional drama of In the Rain. She closes the set with early single Diet Pepsi, resplendent in a voluminous wedding dress. Rae\u2019s live show is delirious, slightly unhinged fantasy.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"7e5f5096-64b1-4824-8a6a-84bd35c48940\" data-spacefinder-role=\"richLink\" data-spacefinder-type=\"model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.RichLinkBlockElement\" class=\"dcr-47fhrn\"><gu-island name=\"RichLinkComponent\" priority=\"feature\" deferuntil=\"idle\" props=\"{&quot;richLinkIndex&quot;:12,&quot;element&quot;:{&quot;_type&quot;:&quot;model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.RichLinkBlockElement&quot;,&quot;prefix&quot;:&quot;Related: &quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Addison Rae: Addison review \u2013 2025\u2019s most refreshing star revels in pop\u2019s shallow pleasures&quot;,&quot;elementId&quot;:&quot;7e5f5096-64b1-4824-8a6a-84bd35c48940&quot;,&quot;role&quot;:&quot;richLink&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2025\/jun\/06\/addison-rae-addison-album-review&quot;},&quot;ajaxUrl&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/api.nextgen.guardianapps.co.uk&quot;,&quot;format&quot;:{&quot;design&quot;:5,&quot;display&quot;:0,&quot;theme&quot;:3}}\"\/><\/figure>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">If you\u2019re coming to an Addison Rae show to complain about her singing over a backing track you\u2019re missing the point. Who could begrudge young people like Chiara and Astra \u2013 who\u2019ve spent their adolescence and short adulthood overwhelmed by the world\u2019s omnicatastrophe \u2013 from craving a little escape? Miserable pop refusalists were never welcome through Rae\u2019s resplendent A gates in the first place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">As she sings on Money Is Everything: \u201cCan\u2019t a girl have fun, fun, fun?\u201d<\/p>\n<ul class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\n<li class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\"><em>Addison Rae is touring Australia now: <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/melbourne\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\">Melbourne<\/a> on 12 November, Brisbane 14-15 November and Sydney 17-18 November.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.theguardian.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On stage, two grand wrought iron-style gates merge seamlessly with the Forum theatre\u2019s famous Greco-Roman statues. Their curlicued bars twist into a giant A, seemingly inspired by the scribbles teenagers have inked in notebooks everywhere since Edward Scissorhands mainstreamed goths in 1990. Silhouetted muscle men open the gates and the screaming begins. 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