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Sydney Morning Herald
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Sydney Morning Herald
First there was darkness. Then there was Addison Rae
The album cuts not already released add to Rae's narrative. Opener New York is upbeat hyperpop charting Rae's arrival to big-city liberation, built around the evocative couplet 'chew gum, kick drum', a sort of Pink Pony Club for trashbags. The fabulously bratty Money is Everything finds Rae aligning herself with Marilyn Monroe over a bellowing trap beat and sing-songy kids' chant, her mischievous energy turned infectious. To obsessives, there's been a playful sense of destiny in Rae's arrival to pop stardom: she was born and raised in Lafayette, Louisiana, barely two hours (and two decades) from Kentwood, the hometown of Britney Spears. Some foresee the second coming, but the goodwill's not been unanimous. Look under any of her videos and you'll find a comment like 'This rebrand should be studied in schools' – the implication being that, while successful, Rae's evolution from online personality to pop artist has felt manufactured or inauthentic. (The idea that, god forbid, someone might develop better taste and influences later into their 20s and 30s, is inconceivable to this generation.) In interviews, Rae's palmed off her former girl-next-door persona on TikTok as marketing savvy. 'Taste is a privilege,' she told the New York Times, suggesting she'd been actively maximising her algorithmic fame to better position herself to eventually manoeuvre beyond the app. But it lends a defensiveness to Addison that, if necessary on her debut, feels antithetical to Rae's personal world-building. On Money is Everything, she screams her holy trinity as evidence of her pop bona fides: 'DJ, play Madonna, wanna roll one with Lana, get high with Gaga, and the girl I used to be is still the girl inside of me!' . On In the Rain, over a sweet acid house beat that could've come from Saint Etienne's Foxbase Alpha, she laments that she's 'misunderstood but I'm not gonna sweat it, isn't it all for the show?' On Diet Pepsi, Addison 's first single, she was seductively suggesting she's 'losing all my innocence' at, c'mon, 24? Loading For some reason, it all reminds me of Camila Cabello, whose last album, C, XOXO, was its own attempt at a grungy reinvention. Pop fans rejected Cabello's pivot, but there's something in Addison 's nostalgic touchstones – the Alanis yodels, the Janet adlibs, the '90s aesthetics – that might be more palatable to most than Cabello's adventurous tilt towards hyperpop and SoundCloud rap. Maybe what I'm saying is Camila Cabello walked so Addison Rae could run. And run she has, all the way from TikTok to pop's ruling class. And in Louboutins at that.
The Age
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- The Age
First there was darkness. Then there was Addison Rae
The album cuts not already released add to Rae's narrative. Opener New York is upbeat hyperpop charting Rae's arrival to big-city liberation, built around the evocative couplet 'chew gum, kick drum', a sort of Pink Pony Club for trashbags. The fabulously bratty Money is Everything finds Rae aligning herself with Marilyn Monroe over a bellowing trap beat and sing-songy kids' chant, her mischievous energy turned infectious. To obsessives, there's been a playful sense of destiny in Rae's arrival to pop stardom: she was born and raised in Lafayette, Louisiana, barely two hours (and two decades) from Kentwood, the hometown of Britney Spears. Some foresee the second coming, but the goodwill's not been unanimous. Look under any of her videos and you'll find a comment like 'This rebrand should be studied in schools' – the implication being that, while successful, Rae's evolution from online personality to pop artist has felt manufactured or inauthentic. (The idea that, god forbid, someone might develop better taste and influences later into their 20s and 30s, is inconceivable to this generation.) In interviews, Rae's palmed off her former girl-next-door persona on TikTok as marketing savvy. 'Taste is a privilege,' she told the New York Times, suggesting she'd been actively maximising her algorithmic fame to better position herself to eventually manoeuvre beyond the app. But it lends a defensiveness to Addison that, if necessary on her debut, feels antithetical to Rae's personal world-building. On Money is Everything, she screams her holy trinity as evidence of her pop bona fides: 'DJ, play Madonna, wanna roll one with Lana, get high with Gaga, and the girl I used to be is still the girl inside of me!' . On In the Rain, over a sweet acid house beat that could've come from Saint Etienne's Foxbase Alpha, she laments that she's 'misunderstood but I'm not gonna sweat it, isn't it all for the show?' On Diet Pepsi, Addison 's first single, she was seductively suggesting she's 'losing all my innocence' at, c'mon, 24? Loading For some reason, it all reminds me of Camila Cabello, whose last album, C, XOXO, was its own attempt at a grungy reinvention. Pop fans rejected Cabello's pivot, but there's something in Addison 's nostalgic touchstones – the Alanis yodels, the Janet adlibs, the '90s aesthetics – that might be more palatable to most than Cabello's adventurous tilt towards hyperpop and SoundCloud rap. Maybe what I'm saying is Camila Cabello walked so Addison Rae could run. And run she has, all the way from TikTok to pop's ruling class. And in Louboutins at that.
