1 00:00:10,669 --> 00:00:14,869 Speaker 1: My Heart podcasts, hear more kids podcasts, playlists, and listen 2 00:00:14,909 --> 00:00:16,468 Speaker 1: live on the Free I hard. 3 00:00:17,628 --> 00:00:25,509 Speaker 2: I've got the one and only Addison Ray. 4 00:00:25,948 --> 00:00:29,149 Speaker 1: Losing on my innocence in the back seat. We lost 5 00:00:29,189 --> 00:00:31,909 Speaker 1: all of our innocence when we spoke to Addison Ray. 6 00:00:31,989 --> 00:00:33,269 Speaker 2: What you there? 7 00:00:34,149 --> 00:00:35,549 Speaker 1: I think I know what she's preferring. 8 00:00:35,789 --> 00:00:38,149 Speaker 2: Didn't during It's the moment she found out that Scar 9 00:00:38,229 --> 00:00:40,868 Speaker 2: pushed more fast. I didn't she that's it. In the 10 00:00:40,909 --> 00:00:43,109 Speaker 2: backseat of it. She was a big scar the moment. 11 00:00:43,149 --> 00:00:45,869 Speaker 2: We all know the moment. It's a hard moment to realize. Okay, Well, 12 00:00:45,909 --> 00:00:48,188 Speaker 2: look we didn't ask her about that, but we did 13 00:00:48,229 --> 00:00:49,309 Speaker 2: speak to earlier this morning. 14 00:00:50,309 --> 00:00:52,588 Speaker 1: Hi, good morning, good morning. 15 00:00:52,668 --> 00:00:56,189 Speaker 3: Well where are you, aren't I lucky? 16 00:00:56,349 --> 00:00:57,069 Speaker 4: I'm in New York. 17 00:00:57,349 --> 00:00:59,949 Speaker 1: Well, so nice to meet you, Addison. Yeah, and I'd 18 00:00:59,989 --> 00:01:01,949 Speaker 1: like to start off with a big compliment which might 19 00:01:01,989 --> 00:01:05,068 Speaker 1: make you feel a little bit uncomfortable, but I feel 20 00:01:05,109 --> 00:01:08,509 Speaker 1: like you have done something which a lot of artists 21 00:01:08,509 --> 00:01:12,389 Speaker 1: find incredibly difficult, which is going from a TikTok sensation 22 00:01:12,509 --> 00:01:15,109 Speaker 1: where you absolutely blew up. Everyone knew who you were. 23 00:01:15,709 --> 00:01:18,109 Speaker 1: Every single one of your videos on TikTok was massive, 24 00:01:18,469 --> 00:01:20,429 Speaker 1: and it feels like you've done a really great job 25 00:01:20,429 --> 00:01:26,549 Speaker 1: to transition from TikTok superstar to really serious musician and actress, 26 00:01:26,869 --> 00:01:29,269 Speaker 1: which I think can be really difficult because people like 27 00:01:29,349 --> 00:01:31,829 Speaker 1: to pigeonhole you a certain way, but you feel like 28 00:01:31,829 --> 00:01:34,548 Speaker 1: you've moved away from that. Can you talk us through 29 00:01:34,629 --> 00:01:35,869 Speaker 1: how you made that transition. 30 00:01:36,469 --> 00:01:42,149 Speaker 5: Yeah, it happened very intuitively but also very intentionally. I 31 00:01:42,189 --> 00:01:45,069 Speaker 5: really like to try new things. It all kind of 32 00:01:45,109 --> 00:01:48,269 Speaker 5: happened in a way that was very organic and authentic. 33 00:01:48,349 --> 00:01:51,589 Speaker 3: And even though you know, people have their ideas on 34 00:01:51,829 --> 00:01:55,549 Speaker 3: how I got involved with music or ways that I 35 00:01:55,589 --> 00:01:58,869 Speaker 3: became really attached to the side of myself that's an artist. 36 00:01:58,949 --> 00:02:01,549 Speaker 3: So I think all of it has always lived inside 37 00:02:01,549 --> 00:02:04,269 Speaker 3: of me, and it is only you know, in the 38 00:02:04,309 --> 00:02:08,909 Speaker 3: past few years of me having this luxury and opportunity 39 00:02:09,069 --> 00:02:11,548 Speaker 3: to kind of explore it, that it's really blossomed. 40 00:02:11,788 --> 00:02:13,029 Speaker 2: So it was like it so it was it was 41 00:02:13,029 --> 00:02:16,228 Speaker 2: a conscious ray brand. You said there was some intention. 42 00:02:16,029 --> 00:02:18,269 Speaker 3: There, I wouldn't necessarily call it that. 43 00:02:18,429 --> 00:02:22,469 Speaker 5: I think. I think intentionality for me is commitment and 44 00:02:22,549 --> 00:02:25,469 Speaker 5: all of these things, and and when the time is 45 00:02:25,629 --> 00:02:29,709 Speaker 5: right and it feels right, I like to commit one 46 00:02:29,749 --> 00:02:33,469 Speaker 5: hundred percent, so there was no real rebrand. I think 47 00:02:33,669 --> 00:02:36,669 Speaker 5: that is kind of a funny word that I associated 48 00:02:36,709 --> 00:02:38,589 Speaker 5: with me. Like I said, all of these things lived 49 00:02:38,589 --> 00:02:40,949 Speaker 5: inside of me, and you know, for a while, I 50 00:02:41,029 --> 00:02:44,629 Speaker 5: wasn't necessarily able to explore them like like I wanted to. 51 00:02:44,949 --> 00:02:47,589 Speaker 5: And once I got that opportunity to explore them the 52 00:02:47,589 --> 00:02:50,269 Speaker 5: way that I wanted to, there was just in intention 53 00:02:50,429 --> 00:02:52,149 Speaker 5: and commitment that was right. 54 00:02:52,589 --> 00:02:54,869 Speaker 2: I was just trying to empathize because I recently got 55 00:02:54,869 --> 00:02:56,669 Speaker 2: an earring, so I'm kind of going through a bit 56 00:02:56,669 --> 00:02:58,309 Speaker 2: of a conscious ray brand in my own so I 57 00:02:58,349 --> 00:03:00,149 Speaker 2: was just trying to like see if we were on 58 00:03:00,189 --> 00:03:00,629 Speaker 2: the same time. 59 00:03:00,709 --> 00:03:02,869 Speaker 5: But you know, I think all of these little things 60 00:03:02,909 --> 00:03:05,189 Speaker 5: that changed you. I mean I got my belly button. 61 00:03:05,029 --> 00:03:08,469 Speaker 4: Pierce, and I think that gave me definitely a different 62 00:03:09,829 --> 00:03:12,788 Speaker 4: I know. Yeah, I mean I think, you know, I 63 00:03:12,789 --> 00:03:15,189 Speaker 4: actually associate that kind of in the same category as 64 00:03:15,229 --> 00:03:17,349 Speaker 4: dyeing your hair, because when you dye your hair or 65 00:03:17,349 --> 00:03:20,669 Speaker 4: get a new haircut, Yeah, you almost like embody, this 66 00:03:20,829 --> 00:03:23,629 Speaker 4: new energy that you shouldn't know existed in you, but 67 00:03:23,669 --> 00:03:24,749 Speaker 4: it always exists in you. 68 00:03:24,869 --> 00:03:26,109 Speaker 5: It's just about activating it. 69 00:03:26,229 --> 00:03:28,189 Speaker 1: Yeah, I love that when you do die your hair 70 00:03:28,189 --> 00:03:30,589 Speaker 1: I'm always interested with going to the hairdresser. And when 71 00:03:30,589 --> 00:03:33,509 Speaker 1: you do have a bad job done to your hair, 72 00:03:33,549 --> 00:03:35,949 Speaker 1: whether it's a cut or a color, are you honest 73 00:03:35,949 --> 00:03:37,789 Speaker 1: with your hair dresses that straight away? Because there's this 74 00:03:37,829 --> 00:03:40,069 Speaker 1: moment where you're looking at them through the mirror and 75 00:03:40,109 --> 00:03:42,589 Speaker 1: it's like thin that you're not happy and you don't 76 00:03:42,629 --> 00:03:44,069 Speaker 1: know how to deal with it. Have you ever had 77 00:03:44,069 --> 00:03:46,029 Speaker 1: that moment and would you address it straightaway? 78 00:03:46,069 --> 00:03:50,109 Speaker 5: Addison, I've definitely had that moment every single time I 79 00:03:50,149 --> 00:03:52,509 Speaker 5: go to the hair salon. It takes me about a 80 00:03:52,669 --> 00:03:55,229 Speaker 5: week to get used to whatever I did, because I 81 00:03:55,269 --> 00:03:57,549 Speaker 5: get so comfortable in the way that I am right 82 00:03:57,789 --> 00:04:01,029 Speaker 5: Almost right before I change myself my hair or change 83 00:04:01,069 --> 00:04:03,949 Speaker 5: my makeup or change a cut, I am like, wait, 84 00:04:04,029 --> 00:04:06,349 Speaker 5: I really love it, and then I end up falling 85 00:04:06,389 --> 00:04:08,989 Speaker 5: through and just still doing the change anyways, and then 86 00:04:09,189 --> 00:04:11,269 Speaker 5: I allow it to have its course with me where 87 00:04:11,269 --> 00:04:11,949 Speaker 5: I hate it. 88 00:04:12,629 --> 00:04:15,309 Speaker 1: They always say it's eight days. Eight days after a 89 00:04:15,309 --> 00:04:17,549 Speaker 1: haircut is when your hair looks awesome, So you. 90 00:04:17,669 --> 00:04:19,948 Speaker 4: Need to go into a case really grow into it. 91 00:04:20,029 --> 00:04:22,309 Speaker 2: Yeah, totally. Much as much as I am enjoying talking 92 00:04:22,308 --> 00:04:24,388 Speaker 2: about Adison's hair, I would like to talk a little 93 00:04:24,389 --> 00:04:27,109 Speaker 2: bit more about your record, Addison, I want to know. 94 00:04:27,269 --> 00:04:29,949 Speaker 2: So there's a song here called Fame is a Gun 95 00:04:30,149 --> 00:04:32,909 Speaker 2: and just kind of like tying in with let's call 96 00:04:32,949 --> 00:04:37,628 Speaker 2: it you belly button piercing your career exploring. Yeah, sure, exploring, 97 00:04:37,669 --> 00:04:39,149 Speaker 2: all right, which I think is a nice metaphor. In 98 00:04:39,189 --> 00:04:41,669 Speaker 2: the belly button piercing. There's this line that you're talking 99 00:04:41,709 --> 00:04:43,469 Speaker 2: about in famers a Gun. There's no mystery. I'm going 100 00:04:43,549 --> 00:04:45,269 Speaker 2: to make it. I'm going down in history. And I 101 00:04:45,309 --> 00:04:47,989 Speaker 2: know you've spoken before about the idea of wanting to 102 00:04:48,029 --> 00:04:50,749 Speaker 2: be famous since since you were really young. In Australia, 103 00:04:50,789 --> 00:04:53,229 Speaker 2: we have this thing called tall poppy syndrome. Do you 104 00:04:53,229 --> 00:04:55,309 Speaker 2: know what that is? No, So it's poppies all grow 105 00:04:55,349 --> 00:04:57,509 Speaker 2: at the same height. So when there's a poppy that's 106 00:04:57,589 --> 00:05:00,109 Speaker 2: higher than the field of poppies that everyone else is 107 00:05:00,469 --> 00:05:02,269 Speaker 2: in Australia, we want to cut it down. It's this 108 00:05:02,349 --> 00:05:05,269 Speaker 2: kind of like weird obsession we have with people being modest, 109 00:05:05,749 --> 00:05:09,069 Speaker 2: interesting that your generation is different like that that you're like, 110 00:05:09,189 --> 00:05:10,509 Speaker 2: you know, hard on your slave. This is what I 111 00:05:10,549 --> 00:05:11,909 Speaker 2: want to do. This is how I want to get it. 112 00:05:11,949 --> 00:05:13,549 Speaker 2: You say it, you put it out there is the 113 00:05:13,589 --> 00:05:17,469 Speaker 2: idea of being famous something that has been rewarding for you, 114 00:05:17,509 --> 00:05:21,068 Speaker 2: like achieving that goal, And is being famous something that 115 00:05:21,109 --> 00:05:22,829 Speaker 2: still drives your career decisions. 116 00:05:23,509 --> 00:05:26,349 Speaker 5: No, I definitely don't think it drives my decisions. I 117 00:05:26,389 --> 00:05:31,549 Speaker 5: think initially, like the excitement and the newness of that 118 00:05:31,749 --> 00:05:36,269 Speaker 5: instant gratification maybe was driving some decisions. Now I'm fully 119 00:05:36,349 --> 00:05:39,269 Speaker 5: led by what I want to do, which you know, 120 00:05:39,389 --> 00:05:41,829 Speaker 5: takes a lot of courage to say no to things. 121 00:05:41,829 --> 00:05:45,149 Speaker 5: A lot of times it's really hard to not accept 122 00:05:45,189 --> 00:05:45,829 Speaker 5: things when. 123 00:05:45,669 --> 00:05:48,029 Speaker 3: When you're worried, like oh what if it goes away? 124 00:05:48,029 --> 00:05:49,389 Speaker 5: But I think I've gotten to this point in my 125 00:05:49,429 --> 00:05:52,428 Speaker 5: life where I don't treat things like they're fleeting anymore. 126 00:05:53,109 --> 00:05:53,909 Speaker 2: Did it scare you at all? 127 00:05:53,949 --> 00:05:54,509 Speaker 3: Have you go to bad? 128 00:05:54,589 --> 00:05:56,109 Speaker 2: Have you had a bad taste in your mouth at all? 129 00:05:56,109 --> 00:05:56,389 Speaker 3: From it? 130 00:05:56,469 --> 00:05:59,349 Speaker 2: Like? Have you as his fame been hard? 131 00:05:59,829 --> 00:06:02,069 Speaker 5: I mean, yeah, I think I would be lying if 132 00:06:02,109 --> 00:06:04,149 Speaker 5: I said it wasn't hard. But I think it's all 133 00:06:04,389 --> 00:06:07,909 Speaker 5: of the things that I could have ever imagined experiencing 134 00:06:07,949 --> 00:06:11,469 Speaker 5: and doing and un understanding about people and about my 135 00:06:11,549 --> 00:06:14,469 Speaker 5: passions and dance and my career and my life, and 136 00:06:14,709 --> 00:06:17,988 Speaker 5: all of those things make up for the difficulties, and 137 00:06:18,029 --> 00:06:20,589 Speaker 5: I think I actually have grown a lot as a 138 00:06:20,589 --> 00:06:24,749 Speaker 5: person and gained so much compassion and empathy towards people 139 00:06:24,829 --> 00:06:27,029 Speaker 5: because of it, and so I really appreciate all of 140 00:06:27,069 --> 00:06:27,789 Speaker 5: that it's done for me. 141 00:06:28,269 --> 00:06:30,469 Speaker 1: What is the hardest part about fame or what's the 142 00:06:30,509 --> 00:06:33,149 Speaker 1: part of fame that maybe you weren't expecting when you 143 00:06:33,229 --> 00:06:35,109 Speaker 1: were thinking about the idea of Was. 144 00:06:35,069 --> 00:06:37,029 Speaker 2: There a moment, Was there a moment where you were like, 145 00:06:37,069 --> 00:06:38,509 Speaker 2: WHOA didn't see this coming? 146 00:06:38,709 --> 00:06:38,909 Speaker 4: Yeah? 147 00:06:38,949 --> 00:06:41,029 Speaker 5: I mean you think everything's going to be easy and 148 00:06:41,109 --> 00:06:44,709 Speaker 5: everyone will understand it. Maybe it ends up being a lot. 149 00:06:44,509 --> 00:06:45,109 Speaker 2: Different than that. 150 00:06:45,149 --> 00:06:48,229 Speaker 5: And I think it changes the lives of you and 151 00:06:48,349 --> 00:06:50,349 Speaker 5: the people around you. And maybe that's something that I 152 00:06:50,429 --> 00:06:53,229 Speaker 5: wasn't necessarily prepared for, Nor do I think you can 153 00:06:53,229 --> 00:06:55,269 Speaker 5: ever be prepared for that shift, you know. 154 00:06:55,629 --> 00:06:58,029 Speaker 1: Hiy final question, Edison, there's a viral photo of you 155 00:06:58,629 --> 00:07:02,469 Speaker 1: walking down the street reading a Britney Spears biopic, who 156 00:07:02,509 --> 00:07:04,909 Speaker 1: I know you've said is a huge influence on you. 157 00:07:05,549 --> 00:07:09,149 Speaker 1: Would you play Britney Spears in a biopy. 158 00:07:08,909 --> 00:07:13,589 Speaker 5: Film if she wanted me to do it. I would 159 00:07:13,589 --> 00:07:16,669 Speaker 5: do just about anything for miss Britney Spears. She's my 160 00:07:16,749 --> 00:07:18,029 Speaker 5: fellow Louisiana girl. 161 00:07:18,989 --> 00:07:21,709 Speaker 1: Have you ever spoken to Britney? Has there been any interaction? 162 00:07:22,109 --> 00:07:25,389 Speaker 5: No, we haven't spoken, but whenever that is meant to happen, 163 00:07:25,469 --> 00:07:27,549 Speaker 5: it will, and I know it will. We'll connect someday 164 00:07:27,549 --> 00:07:30,389 Speaker 5: because we both love to dance and be wild and 165 00:07:30,749 --> 00:07:32,629 Speaker 5: I just want to learn from her. 166 00:07:32,789 --> 00:07:36,069 Speaker 2: She is magic. I love that you sound like you're 167 00:07:36,069 --> 00:07:38,149 Speaker 2: surrounded by such a great group of people as well. 168 00:07:38,189 --> 00:07:39,749 Speaker 2: I know we saw we were just watching before your 169 00:07:39,989 --> 00:07:42,909 Speaker 2: video at Coachelli with Charlie XCX. You guys seem super tired. 170 00:07:42,909 --> 00:07:44,189 Speaker 2: How did you and Charlie mate? 171 00:07:44,229 --> 00:07:46,549 Speaker 5: We met in a session actually, which it happened really 172 00:07:46,669 --> 00:07:49,589 Speaker 5: organically actually, and we're in the same room writing a 173 00:07:49,629 --> 00:07:51,749 Speaker 5: song and she joined a session as a writer for 174 00:07:51,869 --> 00:07:53,989 Speaker 5: me and we were just in there and we really 175 00:07:54,069 --> 00:07:54,589 Speaker 5: hit it off. 176 00:07:54,629 --> 00:07:56,349 Speaker 2: She seems to bring out these energy and people. We're 177 00:07:56,349 --> 00:07:58,549 Speaker 2: watching this video of you guys at Coachella and like, 178 00:07:58,589 --> 00:08:00,509 Speaker 2: I don't know if this is necessarily your vibe as well. 179 00:08:00,509 --> 00:08:03,069 Speaker 2: I'm not on the tiktoks, but like you came out 180 00:08:03,109 --> 00:08:06,109 Speaker 2: wearing this like pink leotide with the tutu, and then 181 00:08:06,149 --> 00:08:08,189 Speaker 2: you cut over to Charlie and you know she's wearing 182 00:08:09,029 --> 00:08:11,309 Speaker 2: a pretty little nothing really, like it's all leather and 183 00:08:11,629 --> 00:08:13,469 Speaker 2: everything like that. Do you vibe off that energy? 184 00:08:13,509 --> 00:08:13,749 Speaker 5: Does she? 185 00:08:13,869 --> 00:08:16,709 Speaker 2: Does she bring out that sense of like badness or 186 00:08:16,749 --> 00:08:19,309 Speaker 2: wildness in you like she seems to everyone else. 187 00:08:19,749 --> 00:08:23,469 Speaker 5: Definitely. I mean Charlie is someone that lives life so 188 00:08:23,749 --> 00:08:27,629 Speaker 5: intensely and passionately, and it always is really inspiring when 189 00:08:27,669 --> 00:08:29,669 Speaker 5: it's come at you in a different angle. And I 190 00:08:29,709 --> 00:08:31,869 Speaker 5: think I live that same way, but it's it's a 191 00:08:31,869 --> 00:08:36,828 Speaker 5: little bit softer and I'm a little bit more I guess, cautious, 192 00:08:36,949 --> 00:08:40,869 Speaker 5: and she just comes in so hardcore and it's yeah, 193 00:08:40,868 --> 00:08:43,108 Speaker 5: it definitely brings out a different energy. 194 00:08:43,309 --> 00:08:45,749 Speaker 1: Well, you keep doing you, Edison, thanks so much for 195 00:08:45,789 --> 00:08:46,588 Speaker 1: the chat. 196 00:08:47,029 --> 00:08:47,509 Speaker 5: Thank y'all.