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The Emancipation of Addison Rae
The TikTok star’s debut album is a symbolic break with the past.
On her 2023 EP, AR, she worked with up to five co-writers per song and producers who bathed her wispy, inviting voice in familiar dance-pop tropes.Its bops quietly succeeded where Rae’s dalliances in makeup and movies floundered. The blonde-bombshell bedlam in Addison ’s “Fame Is a Gun” video resembles the behind-the-scenes drama and starry blue wallpaper of “Lucky,” while “In the Rain” conjures the drum-heavy hip-pop of Britney ’s Neptunes collaborations. If she wants to push herself as a writer, getting deeper than just wishing her parents hadn’t gotten divorced, and maybe interrogating the finer quirks of parasocial relationships between audiences and personalities, the road to a sustained pop tenure is open.
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