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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Here's Addison Rare.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
As much as you all right, everyone, my first guest tonight.
You may think you know just a TikTok star. This
this person is just someone that got famous on TikTok
and you know what that's That's as far as I'll
go with that, because yes, we fell in love with
Adison Ray on TikTok. However, she is way more than that.
She's a pop star, she's the next generation. I'm a
massive fan of her work. She's got brand new music out.
(00:31):
I'm so excited to welcome her to Australian radio. That's
the first first appearance on Australian radio, Addison Ray, Welcome
to the Night show. Hi, hello, this interview. You know,
if I had to picture, like if I close my
eyes and they're like, you're gonna check to Adison Ray,
where do you picture her sitting? And I actually do
picture you sitting in some stockings on the floor in
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front of an open fireplace.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
And that's a compliment me.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
It's very festive, right.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Yeah, very very fast.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
I feel like you are such a festival like you
love Christmas. I can picture you at fifty years old,
eggnog by the fireplace, like you know, a beautiful like lace.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Feather tipped gown on. Oh I can see it.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
Wow, I am very flattered. For now, it's it's Marcha
by the fireplace.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Oh and she's got a macha.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Not agnog Marcha for now.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Such an earl.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
One, girlie, you are a walking stereotype of Addison Ray.
If girls and the gays when it's Addison Ray for Halloween,
this is what they dress up as.
Speaker 5 (01:32):
And it's just you, just me by the fireplace.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
So coy listen, this what this interview is doing a
lot of things for the culture. You let me tell you, like,
are you just not? Are you living the life that
you you've always wanted to live? Like you on top
of the world. I am.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
I am living the life I've always wanted to live.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
I feel like I'm very lucky that I don't need
much sleep at night because my life is my dream.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Put that on?
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Can we put that on a tea towel or like
a coast please, or a T shirt?
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Because I love that my dream.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Prince said it.
Speaker 5 (02:12):
I think Prince said it first, so I'll give him
the credit.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
But it is a great quote.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Let me give you your flowers for a second, because your
lexicon of references for someone your age. And maybe I
don't give you enough credit, man, but you are. You're
a smart cookie, you are up to date with the culture,
and you're a reference queen.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
I love that about you.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Thank you. I appreciate that. I love to learn.
Speaker 5 (02:34):
I think learning is the best thing we can do.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Oh so, and she's gunning for education. Look at a girl.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
I love education.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
The children are our future, Addison. And you've always said
that you have.
Speaker 5 (02:51):
I've always said that it's not's so me.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
This is so very you. I love that the glasses
have now come off. If anyone you have to watch this?
Oh is this your first chat of the day?
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Oh good? Open up?
Speaker 4 (03:04):
Roll that?
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Should we do? Like a little? Should we do? Like
an exercise? Ready? Roll your shoulders back? Addison? All right,
all right, let's do a body scat. Let's do it.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
I'm actually really nicely warmed up because I'm already by
the fire.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
So which the dog?
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Which aren't you sweating your tits off like I would
be dying?
Speaker 1 (03:20):
You are so close, man, Addison is thirty seven.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
It's really cold.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
Well I'm exaggerating, it's not that cold, but I'm from Louisiana,
so to me, anything below like seventy degrees is cold.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Okay, I get you, all right, Well, you stay warm,
you stay snug. Back onto the references. What like growing
up little baby Addison, Like what what did you watch?
What was your source material? Because like you, you can
see it in your music and your creative projects and
everything that you touch is so deeply like filled with
what I like to say are references or a nod
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to someone that's done something in the past, has come
before you in the same position, like what was Addison
Right's childhood?
Speaker 1 (04:01):
What did you watch? Consume?
Speaker 4 (04:05):
Honestly, I feel like I watched anything that my mom
had on.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
She always had MTV on, which was.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
A luxury honestly because then I got to see so
much of what was going on when I was younger.
Speaker 5 (04:22):
I remember one of.
Speaker 6 (04:24):
The first songs that I really like registered as music
was I'm in Love with a Stripper by Teeth Pain.
Speaker 5 (04:37):
It's kind of like the first song that I like.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
I was like, whoa, this is a song that makes
me feel something. And I don't even remember how old
I was. I must have been it must have been
like six, because I feel like it was around the
time when I was getting ready to go see the
Cheetah Girls concert.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Being such a vivid picture. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
Yeah, I remember that song playing in the house when
I was getting ready for the Cheeta Girls concert. And
I think I always loved music from the time I
could register how it made me feel. Yeah, I was
obviously a Cheetah Girls fan. I was a huge Hannah
Montana fan.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
I was really just always a fan of.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
Freedom in spaces or places that feel uncomfortable maybe, And
so I was always really inspired by artists that got
on stage and or did music videos or danced. I
grew up dancing, so I think I got a lot
of my inspiration from dance and the people around me
at my dance studio that were so amazing and talented,
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and I was always kind of drawn to discovering more
of that.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
I love that love.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
I love in one hundred g's when they're like, what
was the inspiration for atism Rai's discography, I'm in.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Love with a STRIPA That was that started it all
for me and it feels so right, it really does.
What were you like? Were you a drama kid?
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Like?
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Were you a glee kid?
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Because I can feel that there are very different types
of American like kids, Did you do glee?
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Did you do the glee class at school? Did you
do drama?
Speaker 2 (06:16):
No?
Speaker 3 (06:16):
I actually didn't.
Speaker 4 (06:17):
I first of all, I've never seen glee unfortunately same.
I think the only thing I've seen from Glee is
the Britney Spears performance. That was like the only thing
I'd ever seen from Glee. But other than that, no,
I didn't. My schools didn't have not that I can
really remember. I think when I I changed schools a
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few times growing up, so I thought, I think whenever
I could, I was dancing outside of school and it
was more of like an extracurricular thing or like competing,
you know, in dance.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
But no, I didn't. I honestly have regrets, though I
feel like I would have liked it.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Yeah, it was like brilliant, it was, honestly, I did
it all through high school and a lot of a
lot of like I feel, pop stars love the glee
in school love the drama department.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
So you would have totally very theatrical.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Were you like school council like in Australia it's like
src like school president?
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Were you went Did you have any like oh, like
student council. Yeah, yeah, I wasn't student council.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
I see that for you.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
I see it for you.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
I told you I love education of course famously.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Yeah, don't bring it up again. Okay did you did
you take it really seriously? Like was it a big
role for you? No?
Speaker 3 (07:30):
I went to a really small high school.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
My high school, my graduating class was really really small,
and so honestly, there wasn't much.
Speaker 5 (07:39):
To uphold really because it was such a small class.
It was like, you know, I don't remember even what
I was. If I had some to think about it,
I can remember it.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
But I was one as well.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
So you ran on education, which is such a strong
such a strong guys, clickly for you and close to
your heart. Okay, well that tell me me build like
the Addison rie that we know now and I have
to say Aquamarine and we're playing Diet Pepsi all the time,
like I hear it every way here, but Aquamarine, that
song and the music video for that song, Addison, you
must be so happy with how it's being received because
(08:14):
it is it has a creative vision, like when you
listen to it and then when you see these music
video it's like, I don't I didn't think that something
could so perfectly with a song, but it's exquisite, like
it really is.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Thank you so much. I really appreciate that. I am
so happy.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
I think it was such a departure from what Diet
PEPSI was so then to see people connect with Aquamarine
as well. Honestly, it's I think, you know, the music videos.
I care so much about music videos. I love music videos.
I think that is such an essential part of you know,
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artistry and crafting what the song is to me and
how it can be interpreted in different ways. But I
think with Diet the music video was a little bit
more wild and wacky and ak marine kind of, you know,
I had this dance element at the end, which was
really nice to go back to something that is so
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important to me and has been so important to me
throughout my.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Entire career.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
And really the love of music for me came from dance,
so much of that is attached. And to do that
in Aquamarine and bring that to life and and kind
of have this freedom vision, dreamy scenario and shooting it
in Paris was obviously it's so magical, So it's really
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amazing to see people loving awk Marine because that one's
really special to me.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
It's so brilliant. Equamarine the movie or Mama from two
thousand and six, Is that a reference at all?
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Everyone's like, is that because Addison's a fish out of
water with the TikTok roots and that's I can see
the correlation.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
I'm like, I think that's thinking a bit too much.
Speaker 5 (09:59):
That's an interesting thing. But I actually haven't heard that,
but I'll take it. I I do love the movie.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
I was so funny because I had met Emma Roberts
not that long before Awkamarine came out.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
And I told her.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
I was like, oh my god, I have a song
called ak Marine. This is really cool, like I came
live by meeting you.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
And she was so excited about it.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
She actually posted an Instagram post with the song on
a selfie and I was like, Wow, a full circle
moment because I was always such.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
A fan of that movie.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Oh that's so cool.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
I mean, obviously, the reference in your lyrics to the Titanic.
I mean, let's just be honest for a second. I'm
hired of the ocean around my neck a Titanic girly
because I can just see you in bed, bag of
popcorn and just watching The Titanic over and over again
on repeat. Do you like it?
Speaker 3 (10:47):
I love the Titanic. Who doesn't love Titanic?
Speaker 2 (10:50):
I know?
Speaker 1 (10:50):
I just rewatched it and it's like it's it's a
hot movie. I want that that is.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
Yeah, it's very romantic and a rod subtlely, I.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Can see you with a giant prop hot of the ocean.
You need to invest. Just go to it'sy, you know,
just get it. Just get a cheap at Z's for all.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
I know.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
I honestly need I want something to represent that song.
I feel like I've heard so many people, writers, producers,
artists that will, you know, buy something to kind of
celebrate the release of a song.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
And I've this whole time, I've been like, I need
to get something awquamarine.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
And I actually was in New York a week ago
and I went into this really beautiful store that was
I think it was like a pop up, but it
was at this art gallery and they had this massive
aquamarine necklace. It was like stones, like crystals, aquamarine crystals,
and the woman had said it was so expensive.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
It was it was like twenty thousand dollars and I
was like, oh, there's no way I can get that.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
But I was just like wow, I couldn't even try
it on because I was just like, first of all,
that's so expensive.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
But it was this magic, cool, beautiful thing on its own.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
And she was like, whoa, it's so rare for someone
to even like Awkamarine, Like it doesn't come up very much.
And I was like, I actually just came out with
a song called awk Marine and it was it was
a cute little moment.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
I'm so, I'm so glad for you. You should go
back and buy that one day. You need to return
one day to return one day. What did you get
for diet pepsi? Is it like a can of die?
Surely you had to buy something to memory?
Speaker 4 (12:22):
I'm right, definitely, lots of physical diet pepsis. I kept
a lot of soda tabs. I actually bought a cute
little from Etsy, actually a soda tab.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
It's like a little gold soda tab as like a necklace.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
It's really cute, so cute, Oh so cute. Listen.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
I wish we could talk forever and ever. But wh
I'm being wrapped, which which feels wrong. Addison, but I
adore you and I can't wait for you to come
to Australia. And too a fingers crossed because he's seen
Troy and we're like, come down here and come.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
I know I need to. I will soon, I promise.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Good. All right, Well you know you keep striving for
education because that's the brand.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
Now all right right, we have a stab.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Thank you so much, honey, lovely to meet you.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
Thank you, Mitch.
Speaker 5 (13:03):
So hopefully I'll see you in Australia very soon