When Addison Rae reached the final stretch of completing her self-titled debut in 2024, everything seemed to crystallize with one last song: “Times Like These.” The moody track became the finishing touch on the 12-song project, built around themes of self-discovery and self-definition. Its lyrics wrestle with the chaos of transformation (“Should I jump in the unknown? Or is it better to know how it unfolds?”), dancing between nervousness and finding comfort in the idea that progress starts with a leap.

For the 25-year-old influencer-turned-pop-hopeful, that willingness wasn’t something she discovered alone. Once she teamed with Los Angeles native Luka Kloser and Stockholm-born Elvira Anderfjärd — a writer-producer duo under Max Martin’s MXM Publishing — her vision for something bold and

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