{"id":139287,"date":"2025-04-18T17:58:53","date_gmt":"2025-04-18T17:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/18\/addison-rae-headphones-on-track-review\/"},"modified":"2025-04-18T17:58:54","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T17:58:54","slug":"addison-rae-headphones-on-track-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/18\/addison-rae-headphones-on-track-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Addison Rae: \u201cHeadphones On\u201d Track Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>In quick order, <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/addison-rae\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Addison Rae<\/a> has turn out to be certainly one of Gen Z\u2019s most chimeric rising stars. She\u2019s a eager scholar of pop divas previous and current; a relentless nostalgia tactician, <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PopCrave\/status\/1911996214419083392\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/x.com\/PopCrave\/status\/1911996214419083392&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PopCrave\/status\/1911996214419083392\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">flaunting<\/a> an outdated iPod Nano just like the coveted new influencer present; and a artistic coconspirator who final weekend joined <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/30594-arca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Arca<\/a> at Coachella to carry out their \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/reviews\/tracks\/addison-rae-arca-aquamarine-arcamarine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Aquamarine<\/a>\u201d remix. Rae\u2019s rose-colored imaginative and prescient of digital pop fits this shaky cultural second\u2014it helps immensely that her featherlight music doubles as a smooth-brain launch from the anhedonia of day-to-day life in America. Welcome to the Addison Rae period, then, the place even the previous TikTok persona\u2019s harshest skeptics (see: me) have taken to her <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/reviews\/tracks\/addison-rae-i-got-it-bad\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">eccentric<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/reviews\/tracks\/addison-rae-high-fashion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">singles<\/a>, which pledge apparent fealty to titans like <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/6916-britney-spears\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Britney<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/2637-madonna\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Madonna<\/a> whereas reflecting Rae\u2019s personal weird, infinite-scroll obsessions.<\/p>\n<p><cm-unit\/><\/p>\n<p>Take the opening seconds of \u201cHeadphones On,\u201d the most recent style of Rae\u2019s forthcoming debut. Pivoting away from <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/reviews\/albums\/madonna-ray-of-light\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Ray of Light<\/em><\/a> cosplay and stacked <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/28425-james-blake\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">James Blake<\/a>-style synths, she introduces her most R&amp;B-inspired observe but with a swell of pitch-shifted, ululating vocals. Filled out with vaporous, jewel-toned chimes and a hip-swaying bassline, \u201cHeadphones On\u201d offers glimpses of <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/10541-janet-jackson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Janet<\/a> at her breathiest as Rae coos over an aerodynamic beat. Her lyrics zero in on music as an escape from emotional disaster, whether or not as seemingly superficial as evaluating herself to \u201cthe new it girl\u201d or as heavy as mourning her dad and mom\u2019 relationship. \u201cHeadphones On\u201d provides a brand new wrinkle to the Addison Rae method, infusing her cotton-candy music with the type of vulnerability that may make it really feel like the surface world\u2019s on mute.<\/p>\n<figure data-testid=\"IframeEmbed\" class=\"IframeEmbedWrapper-sc-dRedg hZcniq iframe-embed\"\/><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] In quick order, Addison Rae has turn out to be certainly one of Gen Z\u2019s most chimeric rising stars. She\u2019s a eager scholar of pop divas previous and current; a relentless nostalgia tactician, flaunting an outdated iPod Nano just like the coveted new influencer present; and a artistic coconspirator who final weekend joined Arca [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":139289,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[6424,7146,2004,779,259],"class_list":{"0":"post-139287","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-addison","9":"tag-headphones","10":"tag-rae","11":"tag-review","12":"tag-track"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}