{"id":88791,"date":"2025-08-23T00:58:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T00:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/88791\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T00:58:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T00:58:09","slug":"addison-rae-on-vmas-2025-snub-its-definitely-funny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/88791\/","title":{"rendered":"Addison Rae on VMAs 2025 Snub: ‘It\u2019s Definitely Funny’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Addison Rae is taking her VMAs 2025<\/a> snub with a grain of salt, a wry smile, and some choice words about her contributions to the MTV Video Music Awards.<\/p>\n

The artist released her self-titled debut album Addison<\/a> in June and has watched it disseminate through the culture, developing a not-so-cult pop fanbase that has led her to open for Lana Del Rey at Wembley Stadium<\/a>. Most recently, Ben Platt solidified the supremacy of \u201cDiet Pepsi\u201d when he performed \u201can emotional rendition\u201d of the song at the Las Culturistas Culture Awards and subsequently went viral.<\/p>\n

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But not everyone has recognized the artistry she created with collaborators Luka Kloser and Elvira Anderfj\u00e4rd. When the VMAs 2025 nominations<\/a> came out this year, Addison was notably absent. This week, Apple Music Radio<\/a>‘s Zane Lowe asked Rae about the snub and how she felt about it.<\/p>\n

\u201cNot everybody was gonna accept it and enjoy it, but I think I will never let that change the way I view creating, and making music videos or making songs and putting out different organizations of music and groups of creative decisions,\u201d Rae said, before smiling and adding, \u201cIt definitely is funny whenever you feel like you put in a lot of work into something and it doesn\u2019t get recognized by some place that you feel like you were contributing to.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is likely in reference to Rae’s splashy appearance at the show last year<\/a>, when she wore a controversial Madonna-inspired all-white bra and panty set with full tutu that was much-discussed after the ceremony.<\/p>\n

Still, Rae will find other ways to spend her time. She recently appeared in Sombr’s music video for \u201c12 to 12\u201d and is currently gearing up to tour. (“It\u2019s gonna be so wild,” she noted to Lowe.) She’s also keeping an eye on how her songs continue to permeate in new ways, saying that Platt’s interpretation of \u201cDiet Pepsi” was \u201camazing.\u201d<\/p>\n