Addison And The Power Of Letting Go (of ChatGPT) with Samir and Thomas

Aaaaand we're back! Welcome to Season 2 of Yapping, decked out with a brand new intro and a new guest, Thomas, joined by your (very lovable) host, Samir, where those two's combined love for Addison Rae surpasses the power of a thousand suns.

On this episode we discuss all things Addison, a.k.a. the first and last album by Addison Rae a.k.a. the best album of this year a.k.a. something we as pop-loving gays will be dissecting for nearly TWO hours!

We talk about everything from the album's composition, to its lyricism, deeper meanings and even attempt to relate the album to niche psychological concepts.

We'll leave you with a small excerpt from a piece Samir is currently writing about the album for his blog. Strap in and enjoy the near two hours of Addison discussion from two professor-emeriti from the University of Addison Rae! 

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“The first and last album by Addison Rae.”

Rarely does a pop debut arrive wearing its own obituary. With one breath, she enters and exits the pop mainstage, so as to say: Here is my life, condensed into sound, smoothed into pop perfection, and offered up as performance. Don't expect more, this is all you get.

That Addison Rae even managed to make this album, given the slew of criticism she received in her 2020 TikTok Hype House era, feels improbable. That it's this good feels transgressive. It's not just a pop album, it's a portrait of a girl raised by the TikTok algorithm, the only one from that era who managed to truly carve out a niche for herself. It's a portrait of a girl commodified by the camera lens, and consumed by millions before she could fully locate a self to lose. In its 12 songs, Addison chronicles love, lust, alienation, nostalgia, growing older, and the desire return to a time that may have never really existed. Not as emotional milestones, but as scripted scenes in a life built for public consumption; the life of the Pop Star in comparison the life of the Individual. Addison's first and last album builds, thus, not towards self-definition but self-dissolution.

 

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