{"id":579224,"date":"2026-04-12T05:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T05:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/579224\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T05:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T05:18:08","slug":"addison-rae-went-from-tiktok-dancer-to-1-of-coachellas-biggest-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/579224\/","title":{"rendered":"Addison Rae went from TikTok dancer to 1 of Coachella’s biggest stars"},"content":{"rendered":"

INDIO, California \u2014 When Addison Rae appeared during her Coachella<\/a> Main Stage set on Saturday evening, she held her body very still, her arms raised over her head. Clutching a Barbie pink cage seemingly for dear life, she stood there in a flouncy costume for a long beat, letting the crowd\u2019s roar wash over her.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In the past year, the TikToker-slash-dancer has had one of pop music\u2019s more fascinating and controversial arcs, and the slow-burn entrance felt telling for Rae\u2019s trajectory: The Coachella set, the first date in her worldwide \u201cFame and Glory Show\u201d tour, was the last brief moment before jumping into yet another pivotal inflection point in her trajectory.<\/p>\n

She then had her dancers help her down the steps descending from the cage, launching into her ethereal standout, \u201cDiet Pepsi.\u201d What distinguishes this song (and Rae\u2019s music, for that matter) is a knowingness that still sounds thrillingly intimate, as though she\u2019s entrusting you with something she recently learned about herself. Rae\u2019s vocals sounded a little choppy at first \u2014 nerves, perhaps \u2014 and it took her a few songs to settle in. But the crowd was with her from the jump, exploding into a cathartic sing-along during the woozy chorus of \u201cDiet Pepsi.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Rae first became famous in 2019 by posting videos on the internet, amassing a huge audience by locating the precise rhythms of attention. A guest role in a Netflix show, an American Eagle modeling gig and a reality show appearance followed, with her first single, “Obsessed,” debuting in 2021. Notably, Rae\u2019s show didn\u2019t play as much to the camera as it did to the huge crowd who\u2019d jostled past Justin\u00a0Bieber fans \u2014 who had posted up a full six hours before his set Saturday night \u2014 to see Rae up close. Midway through the set, she leapt into the crowd asking fans to scream into the\u00a0mic, shrieking with excitement while performing a thumping version of her remix of Charli XCX\u2019s \u201cVon Dutch.\u201d<\/p>\n

Keeping with the vampy theatrical concept of Rae\u2019s set \u2014 like \u201cMoulin Rouge,\u201d but if the French dancers had shopped at the early-aughts icon Fred Segal circa 2003 instead of donning feathers \u2014 she put on a boa made of fake dollar bills. She then asked the crowd to join her in a chant that is the title of one of her songs: \u201cMoney is everything!\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

The eponymous song smacks of the push-pull that young people constantly grapple with: To save for the future, or to live a throttling life now since said future seems improbable. Rae\u2019s sharp lyricism in songs like these has earned her rightful accolades, but her moodier tunes were outstanding in the set \u2014 including \u201cIn the Rain,\u201d reminiscent of peak Hilary Duff with a touch of Britney Spears-era production. Another highlight was the escapist anthem \u201cHeadphones On,\u201d replete with the purple hoodie she donned in the music video.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Like Spears, Rae is a consummate dancer from Louisiana, and at several points, her set felt more like a love letter to movement than a forum to belt cuts from her album \u201cAddison.\u201d The choreography ranged from the punchy styles that play well on TikTok, belly dancing, vogue and a modern ballet routine she performed with\u00a0Maddie Ziegler, known for her appearance in \u201cDance Moms.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Rae seemed most at ease in these energetic moments, only seeming to gather more power as the set went on. As she closed with \u201cFame is a Gun,\u201d the song\u2019s tantalizing take on the pitfalls of infamy felt thrillingly visceral. It\u2019s like she knows a thing or two about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"INDIO, California \u2014 When Addison Rae appeared during her Coachella Main Stage set on Saturday evening, she held…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":579225,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[88,216,253626,244040],"class_list":{"0":"post-579224","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-music","10":"tag-sfgcoachella","11":"tag-sfgculture"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=579224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/579225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}