Addison Rae addresses 'pop girl-rivalries' amid alleged Charli xcx vs. Taylor Swift feud
Addison Rae is "not interested" in the "nitty-gritty" of "pop girl-rivalries".
Addison Rae is "not interested" in "pop-girl rivalries".
The Diet Pepsi singer was asked to comment on her collaborator Charli xcx's alleged feud with Taylor Swift, and she suggested there's often "so much more to all these things", and she likes to stay well out of it.
Asked in an interview with The LA Times if she agrees that "we seem to be living in an age of pop-girl rivalries," Addison replied: "It doesn’t have to be a thing, but I get it — it’s entertaining. Historically, there’s always been this friendly or maybe unfriendly competition between people. I think it’s a very natural human thing to want to exceed a standard that someone else has laid out. I’m not really interested it for myself. I think it takes away from the reason I want to do any of this stuff."
Asked specifically about Charli vs. Taylor, Addison was asked if she feels she has to take sides, responding: "I guess we’ll have to see. But there’s so much more to all these things. There are people that do weird things, and I try to avoid those people."
Pressed on what the "weird things" were, she explained: "Well, you know, this can be behind the scenes as well — producers and drama in writing and ideas and back-end conversations. On my record with Luka and Elvira, we had worked with someone — or tried to include them in something — and then we didn’t really feel like it was necessary. No bad blood. Then all of a sudden, this person had gone and worked with someone else, and things were sounding similar. The timeline of it all was very confusing and interesting."
When the journalist tried to "dig" further, she insisted: "You wouldn’t know. I mean, I think there are people that maybe would know things. But I’m not interested in getting into the nitty-gritty of it all. It’s so irrelevant."
Charli and Taylor are assumed to have bad blood after fans speculated Taylor's The Life of a Showgirl song Actually Romantic is a diss song about the Boom Clap hitmaker.
On the track she accuses someone of calling her "boring Barbie" and Charli has a song on her album Brat called Everything is Romantic.
Fans have also speculated that Charli sings about Taylor not wanting her backstage at her then-boyfriend Matty Healy's band The 1975's concerts on the song Sympathy Is a Knife. Charli is now married to the band's drummer George Daniel.
