Addison Rae just dropped her self-titled debut album, and it’s clear this project is a long time coming. The 24-year-old star has been teasing music for years, but Addison marks her first full-length release—and it’s already turning heads.
The album features 12 tracks, including previously released singles like “Diet Pepsi,” “Headphones On,” “Aquamarine,” “High Fashion,” and “Fame Is a Gun.” Alongside the album drop, Addison released a dreamy, cinematic music video for “Times Like These,” directed by fashion photographer Ethan James Green—his first music video ever.
On Instagram, Addison reflected on the moment: “I’ve been thinking about everything that has lead me to this moment… the ups, downs, & arounds have all contributed to this album. I wouldn’t change a thing. In a way, I’ve been working on this album for 24 years.. ❤️”
Speaking with Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1, she shared more about what it means to finally release this deeply personal project. “I think I’m in the space right now where I’m just really anticipating it coming out, and I’m like trying to hit all the stops. Even like with posting and feeling like, ‘Okay, well, I really want to make sure I give this the credit and the energy that it deserves,’” she said.
She added, “I think sometimes I shy away from that because I’ll be like, ‘Well, I don’t know, I’m already putting this out. Is it going to be too much if I’m just like, all right, everybody, the album’s this many days away, like every two days.’ Sometimes I’ll get onto myself about that, and I’ll be like, ‘No, it deserves that.’”
For Addison, this album came from a different place than her social media content or earlier singles. “It’s so intimate and so precious that I don’t want it to feel gimmicky in that way sometimes,” she explained. “Even whenever I first started TikTok, like that feeling of that. No, I think this project to me deserves that energy from me.”
And she’s right—Addison’s debut isn’t just a launch, it’s a statement.
“It deserves that aggressiveness towards getting people to open up and listen to it because then, why else? Obviously, I made it for myself and I made it for my friends and the people that around me create with me to it. I also think we want people to hear music. That’s why we create.”
“Addison” is now streaming on all major platforms, and if you want the physical version, Urban Outfitters has an exclusive magenta vinyl ready to go.
