Everything We Know About Addison Rae's Budding Music Career

Is there anything Addison Rae can’t do?! The TikTok star surprised fans with her first-ever single “Obsessed” in March 2021, kicking off a budding music career. Months later, in June 2021, she teased that more tunes are coming!

“I will be dropping new music really soon,” Addison told The Hollywood Fix at the time. “It’s gonna be really fun. Lots of things coming out.”

Although details about her foray into the music world were kept under wraps until the influencer already released her first song, Addison actually had dreams of becoming a musician since she was young. “From the beginning, I wanted to make sure that I was writing my own music,” she told Vogue in a March 2021 interview. “I remember jotting down lyrics when I was little and trying to figure out how to make them a song, [now] I’m learning every detail and from amazing songwriters.”

She continued, “When I was young, [my mom] was always listening to music from the ’90s and 2000s, so I was incredibly influenced by that. Beyoncé, J. Lo, Britney Spears, Katy Perry, there are so many artists and songwriters who inspire me. There is such an emotional connection people have to their songs; they change people.”

Addison has officially joined the ranks of TikTok stars — like Chase Hudson, Jaden Hossler, Dixie D’Amelio and Nessa Barrett — who have already released music. From the sound of it, she has a lot more tunes to come and big dreams of hitting the stage. “Getting on stage is such a huge part of being an artist,” she told Vogue. “It’s going to be exciting to share something I’ve loved my entire life with the world and hopefully surprise people who didn’t realize this was a part of who I am.”

“Obsessed” is just the beginning for Addison. The music video showed a different side to the influencer that her millions of TikTok followers have never seen before. With new dance moves and high-fashion looks (including a red wig), the song’s visual totally leveled her up in the entertainment world. “What’s exciting is that this has all been a part of me for so long, but not something I’ve been ready to show just yet,” she gushed.

Her entrance into the music world comes months after Addison geared up to make her acting debut in the 2021 flick He’s All That. Big things are coming, and Addison is proving she’s so much more than an internet star. Following the song’s release, the brunette beauty opened up about being “so emotional” in an Instagram post. “This song makes me feel so many things!” she wrote. “I love music. That’s all.”

Scroll through our gallery for all the details on Addison’s budding music career!

Love J-14? Be sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel for fun, exclusive videos with your favorite stars.

‘Obsessed’

“One could take it as being vainly obsessed with yourself, but that’s not what I’m trying to communicate,” Addison told Vogue about the song’s meaning. “It’s more I can love myself as much as you love me, and that’s important. There are days where I struggle, and it’s definitely a work in progress to accept who I am and give myself the love I deserve. But that message was so strong, and I wanted to communicate it.”

Her Unique Sound

“Being a part of the writing process for me was kind of just everything. I wanted to learn how to song write correctly, I wanted to learn how to know what to say, I wanted to know production, I wanted to learn about every single step of the way and be really involved in it,” she told told Zane Lowe on Apple Music in March 2021. “I didn’t want to cut a demo, I didn’t want to cut someone else’s song, I wanted to be a part of my own. And in the beginning, I mean my gosh, it was not always a good thing … It was definitely rough, but it took me a good minute to find what I was as an artist, and what I wanted to portray and, what kind of sound I wanted and just kind of the best way to show me as an artist overall.”

The Future

“I have my next two singles picked out. So it’s not something that we’re just putting one out and done, we have my next two singles, I know what they are,” Addison explained during her Apple Music interview. “I don’t want to rush the album. And I think it’s going to mean a lot to me to put out my first project, so I definitely want it to be worth the while and I don’t want to rush something out that I just don’t feel confident about. And I want to really, really love it and have it be a true reflection of everything I want to communicate.”

Her Debut Album

The musician teased her upcoming album while chatting with E! News in May 2021, and revealed that a lot fo songs are inspired by her past relationship with Bryce Hall.

“My album is pretty much just going to be experiences that I’ve gone through or feelings that I’ve had and just different mindsets that I’ve kind of been in over the past year,” the influencer said. “That relationship was such a big part of my life and, you know, that part’s past. It’s still experiences and memories that are still pretty fresh on my mind, and I feel that’s been a lot of inspiration for me.”

OMG!Addison Rae Teases Upcoming Album — What We Know About Her Budding Music Career

‘Obsessed’

Her Unique Sound

The Future

Her Debut Album

More from J-14