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September 12, 2024 11 mins
Addison Rae was at the VMA's last night, and talks to us about her viral hit, "Diet Pepsi"!

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Live from the Mercedes Benz Interview Lounge.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Addison Ray, Welcome to the show. So there's a bell ringing,
so many people were excited. Addison Ray is gonna be
on the show today. So here you are. Let's talk
about everything. Let's talk about Well, last night you were
on the Video Music Awards. So you Charlie XCX, what
about it? Well, I know that you popped out on

(00:25):
the stage with her at one of her concerts in
Los Angeles. Are you gonna Are you gonna like go
on the road together? What is this?

Speaker 3 (00:31):
Oh my gosh, Well, there's no plans to yet, but
right you know, if I love her, so anything she
wants I'll do for the most wort.

Speaker 2 (00:39):
Okay, well, I don't know. I saw the die Pepsi video.
We'll talk about that in a moment. How fun putting
a video like that together. We'll get into that in
a minute because a lot of people who are lactose
intolerant would not understand.

Speaker 1 (00:51):
I don't think I can handle that.

Speaker 2 (00:54):
Okay, we're setting this up for a conversation in a moment.
So maybe five years ago or maybe more, you tell
me when you really were hitting the streaming scene. The Tiktoking,
and that was about five years ago.

Speaker 4 (01:07):
It was like four yea like four and now the
end of twenty nineteen.

Speaker 2 (01:13):
But now it's Addison Ray in music okay, and diet
Pepsi is getting a lot of attention in your new
song and video and we're going to play that in
a minute. So did you have a five and ten
year plan. Did you start out tiktoking and thinking in
five years, I want this to turn into music or
it just evolved on its own.

Speaker 3 (01:31):
I think since I was little, I always knew like
I wanted to perform and like create, and then it
was like the natural evolution from dance to music to acting.
So when I started TikTok, I didn't actually think anything
was really real.

Speaker 4 (01:45):
At first.

Speaker 3 (01:46):
It was kind of confusing, and then I remember randomly
people started recognizing me and being like, hi, I saw
you on TikTok, and I was like, oh, this might
be like real, like this might be a real life thing.

Speaker 4 (01:58):
And then it kind of just you know, progress from there.

Speaker 2 (02:01):
There you go. I mean, I mean, it's safe to
say you're one of the pioneers of what you do
on TikTok. Well think you look I mean You're only
twenty three years old, so about one hundred billion followers
on TikTok about forty million on Instagram. Right, that's all? Sorry,
So how do you maneuver because a lot of people

(02:23):
are still there and they want to do other things,
but they're not doing other things. You are, though, you're
into music now.

Speaker 3 (02:29):
I think if you're interested in something, it's always nice
to try and explore it. But I think that people
do you know, have a passion for just creating content,
like very freely as themselves.

Speaker 4 (02:38):
For me, though, it was always.

Speaker 3 (02:40):
Creating things in music, in acting, and as long as
I could do that in a way where I feel
like I'm telling a story, I was always going.

Speaker 4 (02:47):
To try and do that.

Speaker 2 (02:48):
I'm also assuming you it's the people you meet all.
It's in the contacts. I mean, you moved to Los Angeles, right,
and that's where the music business kind of rolls, right,
and then you meet this person, that meet that person.
Next thing you know, you're hopping on on stage with
Charlie XCX and you're presenting at the VMA's Okay, So
I mean, how does that work? How is it with

(03:09):
the connections you make with people? How is it moving
you forward. I mean that's I'm assuming that's how it's
happened for you. It's happened for a lot of people.

Speaker 1 (03:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (03:16):
I think being around someone like Charlie who's been around
for so long and has continuously followed her heart with
who she is and the music and everything, it's it's
really inspiring. I think to just watch that and see
her do it so fearlessly.

Speaker 2 (03:28):
Being fearless is a frightening thing. Yeah, it really is.
I always say there's a thin line between excitement and fear.
But at some point, do you wake up the winner
and go, you know what ef it? You know what
I'm not. I don't care. I'm I'm gonna try. If
I fail, I fail, and if I don't, then we learn,
you know.

Speaker 3 (03:45):
I think it's a really nice place to get to
in life when you're just kind of like I'm gonna
do it makes me happy and that's it, you know.

Speaker 1 (03:50):
Do you call your celebrity friends for like advice? So
like the Kardashians who I know you, I've seen you
on the show, do you like call up Courtney and
be like, listen, this is what they want me to do.

Speaker 4 (04:00):
What are your thoughts even.

Speaker 3 (04:01):
With like Charlie, She's been so helpful with music and
stuff and just advice on that. But yeah, I mean
I have it's very smart to lean on people that
are experienced and know what they're doing.

Speaker 4 (04:11):
So I always try and do that.

Speaker 3 (04:12):
I think if you if you can ask somebody a
question about something that you're confused about, you know, why not.

Speaker 2 (04:17):
We've heard many artists who have been around for a
long time, Katy Perry included, and other artists of that
ILK they still call other artists and questions because you know,
just because you're successful at something doesn't mean you know
everything totally, and sometimes you have to rethink how you're
doing it, you know. But you're in the music business now,
and there's no harmful people in the music business, you know.

Speaker 3 (04:38):
I actually like to believe everybody has good in them,
which I feel like is mostly a good starting point,
you know, assuming that people are good people, and then yeah,
usually navigating that after you get proven wrong sometimes.

Speaker 4 (04:53):
But from the South, so.

Speaker 2 (04:55):
Well, from the South, that's we always use that. If
any one questions are more girls were from the solf. Hey,
let's talk about diet pepsi. This this new single it's
out now it's all everywhere and the video, the video,
it's all done in black and white. It's very racy.
It's a racy video. Okay, did anyone in your extreme
close knit circle go, oh my god, Addison Ray, what

(05:18):
are you doing? Because it is it is racy. I
mean you're feeding whipped cream to a guy with your feet.

Speaker 1 (05:24):
Rights only fans, page only fly.

Speaker 2 (05:36):
But it tells a story and it's it's this is
where the acting comes in, right. I mean, if you
haven't seen the video, you should see it.

Speaker 4 (05:42):
But yeah, there lots of feet and with cream.

Speaker 2 (05:46):
And a hot guy in a convertible. I mean, god,
it sounds like a weekend.

Speaker 4 (05:50):
There's so many questions about the video.

Speaker 3 (05:51):
Okay, the naxt question, yeah, okay, how much day did
you have in picking the guy?

Speaker 4 (05:54):
Because he is incredibly hot?

Speaker 3 (05:55):
Who is His name is Drew van Acker, and he's
an incredible actor and thank god he was so down
to just play and and be fun and not be
afraid to get messy obviously, but yeah, he's incredible, and
I did have a lot to say on that.

Speaker 4 (06:08):
We were really particular on choosing that.

Speaker 3 (06:10):
I think we wanted someone that was really like timeless
and handsome and and also was was going to be
down to you know, experiment because it definitely was a
while shoot day.

Speaker 4 (06:20):
Okay, second question, I have a thing with shoes. Okay,
there's a part where you have your shoes all over
his face. Were the shoes and new shoes or were
those walked in and then all his face?

Speaker 3 (06:29):
They were probably walked in, But I will say we
had like wipes, so we were like really cleaning.

Speaker 4 (06:37):
It must have been sticky. It was sticky. That was
the thing.

Speaker 3 (06:39):
That was the main reason why we had the wipes
because it was really sticky, and obviously it was full
of ice cream, so it was just.

Speaker 1 (06:44):
You know, did you not want to eat ice cream
again and stuff like that again for a while after shooting.

Speaker 3 (06:49):
I love ice creams.

Speaker 2 (06:54):
The video board guy's never gonna eat it again. But okay,
so this is this is I guess safe to say
your day, your debut video. I mean, it's it's a
real deal video. This is a high production quality, it's
beautifully shot and an incredible director. So as a young woman,
and it is a racy video. It's very sexy and
all of that. Were you very careful to keep an

(07:15):
eye on where it was going and how how racy
it was getting was where there was definitely a line
that you had to draw sometimes, No, that's too much.

Speaker 4 (07:25):
You know, I actually did. I don't know. I don't
think I felt that way Weirdly.

Speaker 3 (07:28):
I think I've just always been really like in tune
with myself and my body and and I feel like
there's a you know, a good balance of it all.
And I think it was like pretty quirky and weird.
So it wasn't too like in your face, even with
the dancing and the moves, and it was like very
much leaning into that, like aggressive and fearless and wild dancing,

(07:50):
and so I didn't really even look.

Speaker 2 (07:51):
At it like that.

Speaker 4 (07:52):
But but yeah, I see.

Speaker 2 (07:53):
That more to it than the video. There's the song
type PEPSI right, the song the storytelling is what? What
story are you telling with this song?

Speaker 3 (08:02):
I mean it was an experience in my life and
is autobiographical. Yeah, okay, no, but yeah, I don't know.
I don't really want to talk about the full meanings
in my experience, but maybe yours, maybe you can relay,
Maybe you can relate.

Speaker 2 (08:19):
I guess I could eat ice cream off my own
foot while driving.

Speaker 1 (08:26):
You talk about like loving to express yourself and telling
a story. So when you put out an album and
it's all kinds of songs, if that's what you're gonna do,
are you going to have it tell a whole story?

Speaker 4 (08:35):
Yeah, that's what I want.

Speaker 3 (08:35):
I think that's the main goal I think for me
when that comes like, I really just visually.

Speaker 4 (08:41):
I'm such a visual artist.

Speaker 3 (08:42):
I love painting a picture and getting people to feel
like they're involved in the world of it all, and
so that's a really really important part to me. And
I think, you know, stories don't always have to be
perfectly one after the other. It can be a story
that tells things in a different order. I think someone
like Tarantino always did that really well.

Speaker 4 (08:59):
You know you would.

Speaker 3 (09:00):
I don't really know where you were in this story
until the end, So it's kind of nice to have
that going that theme of like you don't really know
where it's going to go technically, but maybe at the
end the full picture makes sense, you know.

Speaker 2 (09:09):
Going back to the very beginning of our conversation, you know,
part of your plan evolving from online and TikTok and
everything else into music and acting, I'm hearing that's that's
definitely in the plans, but just being a young woman,
living your life, learning, sometimes failing and learning from the failures.

(09:31):
Maybe I don't always, but out there just living with
friends and having a good time, Palm trees, an.

Speaker 4 (09:37):
Ocean ice cream. I'm like, I miss it. It's cold here.

Speaker 1 (09:44):
Are you going to get a call from Briars? So, like, okay,
could you be on official?

Speaker 4 (09:47):
Like I would love to get an ice cream call?
That would be amazing.

Speaker 2 (09:49):
Okay, we can set that up for it. So when
you I guess I was getting to this point where
coming from the West Coast to the East Coast to
hang out here in dirty, gritty New York City. Okay, Well,
what is it you love about a city? I mean,
so it's the polar opposite of your heads.

Speaker 4 (10:04):
It's definitely really different. I mean it's also different.

Speaker 3 (10:06):
I think coming from Louisiana, La is so different, and
then coming to New York that's so different from both
of those.

Speaker 4 (10:12):
But I don't know, there's something really alive about New
York that I really enjoy. And I like the going
out life. I like the party, party life here.

Speaker 3 (10:19):
It's it's really like alive and people want to go
out all night, you know, and dance all night. And
I feel like LA is a little bit different. People
are like right now, really into health and wellness, which
is really nice to have it every day. I have
my workout routine there, I'm like, Okay, I wake up,
I go to my boot camp, but run like very
like a schedule there, and I feel like here, it's
a little bit more spontaneous.

Speaker 4 (10:39):
So it's always fun to like mix it up.

Speaker 2 (10:40):
So you can just it's a slippery slope to hell
here in New York and that's why we love it. Okay,
So more music on the way. Is are there any
set dates, plans, songs being written or is it? Yeah?

Speaker 4 (10:53):
Yeah, I'm working. I'm working. I'm in the studio and
just writing every day.

Speaker 3 (10:57):
I don't have anything to share yet, okay, but I
will eventually.

Speaker 2 (11:01):
All right. Well, Addison Raith, thank you so much for
coming in. Especially I'm sure you're out late last night
at the.

Speaker 4 (11:06):
VMA's Yeah, crazy night. You know, I definitely just needed
food immediately after.

Speaker 2 (11:11):
You're doing Okay, let's play it. This is diet pepsi.
Adison Ray, thanks for coming on to

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