acclaim<\/a>. Its lead single, \u201cDiet Pepsi,\u201d has amassed over 500,000 streams on Spotify.<\/p>\nNow performing a headlining show in Los Angeles, Rae commanded the stage with confidence and charisma. Met with screams of anticipation, she opened her show with \u201cFame is a Gun,\u201d a synth-pop track featuring an irresistible hook. Throughout the concert, Rae hit each dance move with precision while never sacrificing her playful personality. <\/p>\n
During her high-paced performance of \u201cNew York,\u201d fans jumped and danced amid the chaos of strobe lights, turning the theatre into a club. After walking up a set of stairs in a neon orange bikini and black sheer thigh highs, Rae slowed down to speak to the audience. <\/p>\n
\u201cEvery single time I come onto this stage and do this show, it feels like I\u2019m dreaming,\u201d said Rae.<\/p>\n
Repeatedly throughout the night, the singer made sure to express her gratitude to the audience. As she looked out into a sea of fans from atop the stairs, Rae began to sing \u201cSummer Forever,\u201d an atmospheric track that blends airy vocals with hazy synths. <\/p>\n
For Rae, dancing comes naturally, since she has been a competitive dancer from a young age. However, she has had to prove herself as a songwriter. Collaborating with producers Luka Kloser and Elvira Anderfj\u00e4rd on her debut album, Rae wrote about the contradiction of confidence and insecurity while touching on fame and pop culture references. At her concert, the loud decibels of fans screaming her lyrics are a testament to her evolving skills as a songwriter.<\/p>\n
Continuing the 14-song set, Rae never lost the attention of the audience. She kept up the energy with songs like \u201cAquamarine,\u201d a mythical, Madonna-esque dance track, and \u201cHeadphones On,\u201d an anthemic, early 2000s-inspired pop song. During the flaunting yet infectious \u201cMoney is Everything,\u201d green confetti rained down on fans throughout the theatre.<\/p>\n
To end the show, Rae performed her hit \u201cDiet Pepsi\u201d in a white tulle gown, as pyrotechnics glimmered behind her. Mesmerized, the crowd broke into a final applause for Rae and her dancers. <\/p>\n
For Gen Z audiences who became familiar with Rae through TikTok trends and viral videos earlier in the decade, her impressive concert performance might have come as a surprise. However, after witnessing her live show, fans can see how she has the stage presence of an experienced performer. <\/p>\n
\u201cMy 2020 self would never think that I would be going to an Addison Rae concert, but honestly, I\u2019m happy I did,\u201d said Sam Saunders, a sophomore political science major at USC who attended Sunday\u2019s show. \u201cI think she has the potential to become something even bigger than she already is.\u201d<\/p>\n
Concise and captivating, Rae\u2019s performance cements her as a Gen Z pop icon. In 2025, there is no traditional formula for becoming a pop star. Anyone can post on social media and become \u201cfamous.\u201d Rae represents a new age of pop stars who are redefining fame and creating their own visions.<\/p>\n
Rae will conclude her headlining tour in Australia later this year before playing as a supporting act for music festivals such as Coachella in 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI guess we made it to Hollywood,\u201d Addison Rae told a sold-out crowd of 2,300 fans at the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18152,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[8121,15378,15377,15379,15385,15380,15384,15381,15387,48,15376,52,51,47,50,49,15383,15386,15374,3808,15382,15375],"class_list":["post-18151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-addison-rae","tag-addison-rae-concert-review","tag-addison-rae-review","tag-addison-review","tag-aquamarine","tag-diet-pepsi","tag-elvira-anderfjard","tag-fame-is-a-gun","tag-headphones-on","tag-la","tag-la-conerts","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-luka-kloser","tag-money-is-everything","tag-the-addison-tour","tag-tiktok","tag-tiktok-fame","tag-wiltern-theatre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}