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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 many there's a
bell ringing, so were excited. Addison Ray is gonna be
on the show today.

Speaker 3 (00:13):
So here you are. Let's talk about everything.

Speaker 2 (00:17):
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 the stage with
her at one of her concerts in Los Angeles. Are
you gonna Are you gonna like go on the road together?

Speaker 3 (00:31):
What is this?

Speaker 4 (00:31):
Oh my gosh, Well, there's no plans to yet, but
right you know, I love her, so anything she wants
I'll do for the most part.

Speaker 2 (00:39):
Okay, Well, I don't know. I saw the Dike 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 5 (00:53):
Okay, we're setting this up for a conversation in a moment.

Speaker 2 (00:57):
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 6 (01:07):
It was like four, ye like four and now the
end of twenty nineteen.

Speaker 2 (01:12):
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 gonna play that.

Speaker 3 (01:20):
In a minute.

Speaker 2 (01:21):
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 4 (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 6 (01:45):
At first.

Speaker 4 (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 6 (01:58):
And then it kind of just you know, progress from there.

Speaker 3 (02:01):
There you go.

Speaker 2 (02:02):
I mean, I mean, it's safe to say you're one
of the pioneers of what you do on TikTok.

Speaker 3 (02:07):
Well, thank you.

Speaker 2 (02:09):
Look, I mean You're only twenty three years old, so
about one hundred million followers on TikTok about forty million
on Instagram. Right, that's all sorry, But so how do
you maneuver because a lot of people 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 4 (02:29):
I think if you're interested in something, it's always nice
to try and explore it. But I think people do,
you know, have a passion for just creating content, like
very freely as themselves. For me, though, it was always
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 gonna.

Speaker 6 (02:47):
Try and do that.

Speaker 2 (02:48):
I'm also assuming you it's the people you meet all.
It's in the contact. 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 stage with Charlie
XCX and you're presenting at the VMA's Okay, So I mean,
how does that work? How is it with the connections

(03:09):
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 han't for a lot of people.

Speaker 4 (03:16):
Yeah, 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 3 (03:28):
Being fearless is a frightening thing.

Speaker 2 (03:30):
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?

Speaker 3 (03:37):
You know what I'm not. I don't care.

Speaker 2 (03:39):
I'm gonna I'm gonna try and if I fail, I fail,
and if I don't, then we learn, you know.

Speaker 4 (03:45):
I think it's a really nice place to get to
you in life when you're just kind of like I'm
gonna do it makes me happy and that's it.

Speaker 6 (03:50):
You know.

Speaker 1 (03:50):
Do you call your celebrity friends for like advice? So
like the Kardashians, who I know, you know, 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 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 6 (04:11):
So I always try and do that.

Speaker 4 (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, Katie Perry included, and other artists of that
ILK they still call other artists and yes, 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.

Speaker 6 (04:36):
Business, you know.

Speaker 4 (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 6 (04:53):
But from the South so.

Speaker 2 (04:55):
Well, from the South's we always use that if anyone
questions are more, we're from the sound. 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. Did anyone in your extreme close knit circle go,

(05:16):
oh my god, Addison Ray, what are you doing? Because
it is it is racy. I mean you're feeding whipped
cream to a guy with your feet, right.

Speaker 1 (05:26):
My gosh, only fans page only.

Speaker 2 (05:35):
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 6 (05:42):
But yes, 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 5 (05:50):
There's so many questions about the video. Okay, the NAXT question,
how much day did you have in picking the guy?
Because he is incredibly hot?

Speaker 4 (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. We
were really particular on choosing that. I think we wanted
someone that was really like timeless and handsome and and
also was was going to be down to you know,

(06:18):
experiment because it definitely was a while shoot day.

Speaker 5 (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.

Speaker 6 (06:28):
All over his face?

Speaker 4 (06:29):
They were probably walked in, But I will say we
had like wipes, so we were like really cleaning.

Speaker 6 (06:37):
It must have been sticky. It was sticky. That was
the thing.

Speaker 4 (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 4 (06:49):
I love ice creams.

Speaker 5 (06:54):
The video, this pair of guy's never gonna eat it again.

Speaker 2 (06:56):
But okay, so this is your 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, 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 eye on where it was going and

(07:17):
how how racy it was getting was where there was
definitely a line that you had to draw sometimes, No,
that's too much, you.

Speaker 6 (07:25):
Know, I actually did. I don't know. I don't think
I felt that way Weirdly.

Speaker 4 (07:28):
I think I've just always been really like in tune
with myself and my body and 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 at it like that.

Speaker 6 (07:52):
But but yeah, I see.

Speaker 3 (07:53):
That more to it than the video.

Speaker 2 (07:55):
There's the song type PEPSI right, the song the storytelling
is what?

Speaker 3 (08:00):
What story are you telling with this song?

Speaker 6 (08:02):
I mean it was.

Speaker 4 (08:03):
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.

Speaker 3 (08:17):
I don't know, maybe you can relate. 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 6 (08:35):
Yeah, that's what I want.

Speaker 4 (08:35):
I think that's the main goal I think for me
when that comes, like, I really just visually, I'm such
a visual artist. 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 that tells things in a different order.

(08:57):
I think someone like Tarantino always did that really well.
You know, you wouldn'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 6 (09:36):
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 6 (09:47):
I would love to get an ice cream call. That
would be amazing.

Speaker 3 (09:49):
Okay, we can set that up for so.

Speaker 2 (09:52):
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 is okay, Well, what is it you love about
a city? I mean, so it's the polar opposite of
your life.

Speaker 6 (10:04):
It's definitely really different. I mean it's also different.

Speaker 4 (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. 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.
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 like health and wellness,

(10:28):
which is really nice to have.

Speaker 5 (10:29):
Every day.

Speaker 4 (10:31):
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 6 (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?

Speaker 3 (10:53):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (10:53):
Yeah, I'm working. I'm working. I'm in the studio and
just writing every day.

Speaker 4 (10:57):
I don't have anything to share yet, okay, but I
will eventually.

Speaker 3 (11:01):
All right.

Speaker 2 (11:02):
Well, Addison Raith, thank you so much for coming in.
Especially I'm sure you're out late last night at.

Speaker 4 (11:06):
The 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.
Addison Ray thanks for having
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