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Addison Rae, ‘Addison’ (Ethan James Green\/Columbia Records)<\/p>\n
Addison Rae has spent the year confounding people’s expectations.<\/p>\n
Critics certainly didn’t expect to like her debut album, Addison, but it earned rave reviews and a nomination for best new artist at the Grammy Awards in February. Addison tells the Los Angeles Times<\/a>\u00a0that she’s used to being underestimated.<\/p>\n “I\u2019ve actually gotten really comfortable in this space of everyone thinking that everything I do will be mediocre and me doing something better than that and them being surprised,” she tells the paper. “People were very skeptical \u2014 even people that are choosing to embrace me now. Which is nice. I\u2019m glad they\u2019ve changed their mind.”<\/p>\n Even Addison’s record company wasn’t entirely on board as record execs weren’t sold on her choice for the lead single. “The label definitely wasn\u2019t keen on ‘Diet Pepsi’ being the first [single],” she shares. “They were like, ‘We don\u2019t think this is what people are expecting from you.’\u201d<\/p>\n Asked what she thought people expected\u00a0her music to sound like, she says, “Bad? Bad or soulless or maybe just a little more shallow, I guess.”<\/p>\n She ultimately had\u00a0the last laugh with her Grammy nomination, which she says “shocked” her.<\/p>\n