“Obsessed” by Addison Rae
The premise of Addison Rae’s “Obsessed” is the vocalist’s significant other being in love with her. She is made aware of this fact by him actually saying so. However, he didn’t do it like they did in the old days, by uttering the words ‘I love you’. Rather he and Addison are a bit of a wild, uninhibited pair.
And the way he lets this be known to her is by rather saying ‘I’m obsessed with you’, which are actually serious words that have never been spoken in this relationship before.
Well Addison does reply with a traditional “me too”. But in this case, that does not translate to ‘I’m obsessed with you too’. Rather it reads “I’m obsessed with me” also.
And just as willing as the vocalist’s boyfriend is to die for her, she also concludes that she is worth dying for, i.e. would die for herself also. Indeed even if she and her sweetheart were to break up she would possess the most-important part of this relationship, which is herself.
A Conceited Narrator?
We know right about now you might be tempted to think that Addison is being overly-conceited. However, the lyrics don’t necessarily read so. Yes, she apparently holds a high estimation of herself. For instance, the singer knows that if she wants to, she can really turn it on in the looks’ department. But even when at a party, dressed to the nines and caught up in the allure of the moment, as illustrated at the end of the second verse, her rapport with the addressee is never broken.
Also as explained by Addison in her own words, the sentiment this song is really meant to relay is “I can love myself as much as you love me”. And that is sort of the feeling being conveyed in the chorus.
In this day and age sadly enough romantic relationships don’t really tend to last. But the singer is letting her partner know right from the jump that if such were to transpire, she isn’t the type who’s going to be devastated as a result. Or rather let’s say that Rae is an artist who has a considerable amount of self-love.
So she really enjoys her boyfriend. They apparently like chillin’ together on the road and also at parties. Verily they seem to have an affinity for the same things, like “fast cars”. Moreover, the dude is really diggin’ her. And the vocalist is totally agreeing with him in that regard, as she also appreciates herself to a high degree.
“Obsessed” meets with Backlash
Addison Rae reportedly experienced a considerable deal of hating in response to this song – so much so that TikToker Dixie D’Amelio came to her defense. Another social-media star by the name of Bryce Hall, a romantic interest of Addison’s, also lent his support to the singer in light of backlash she underwent after coming out with “Obsessed”.
However, it is understandable that despite this song going viral – its music video receiving half-a-million views in four days for instance – it may not be to some people’s acoustic liking.
That is because Addison, at least at this juncture in history, is first and foremost a social-media star. In fact “Obsessed”, which came out on 19 March 2021, is her first song release ever. Indeed under normal circumstances, Rae, who at the time is 20 years old, wouldn’t even be considering a music career. But taking into account that she is one of the most-popular and thus richest internet personalities in the world, then it becomes a matter of well, why not.
Facts about “Obsessed”
Indeed as of the release of this track Addison Rae enjoys approximately 80 million fans on TikTok, 37 million followers on Instagram, 5 million followers on Twitter and 5 another million subscribers on YouTube.
Prior to release this track Rae had remained inactive on YouTube for almost four months, making her last prior post on 1 December 2020..
Addison Rae contributed to the writing of this song, doing so in conjunction with Leland, Madison Love, Tia Scola and the track’s producers, Ryan McMahon, Blake Slatkin and mega-hitmaker Benny Blanco. And in terms of Addison’s contribution to the composition of the song, it wasn’t just on a surface, name-only level.
“Obsessed” was brought to us by an indie label called Sandlot Records.
The official music video to this track was directed by Diane Martel. Its fashion Designer is Kyle Luu and main choreographer Calvit Hodge.
LOL this song is horrible
Are you kidding me with these lyrics? What have we devolved into that were are celebrating pop songs promoting literal narcissistic mental illness?
I’m sure that that the vocalist being an very attractive young girl has something to do with it, right? Just imagine some middle-aged, out of shape balding man singing these words. LOL, wouldn’t be so glamorous would it?
You know, if these lyrics were a satirical take on the current trends culture of narcissistic self-worship, they’d be kind of brilliant I suppose. Kind of. But then how would one even know where the line is drawn between satire and sincerity these days? And there’s no way that young female fans don’t take it as a sincere ’empowerment’ statement anyway.
Awful.
The beat is quite nice but the lyrics are- not very good. The dance moves are so aggressive and energetic, it doesn’t really match with the lyrics. What was the “you know I love fast cars” line about? For her first single… I think it would have been better if she wasn’t overreacting in every scene, that the dancing actually matched the beat, that the lyrics actually had meaning. She should take some lessons on songwriting. She said that this song is about “self-love” I think but it just says “narcissism” She could do better. Also, the song is just flat. She could improve if she took the time to learn more about singing, acting, dancing, and song-writing but overall not so good but not terrible. It’s very catchy, the lyrics are still my main issue though.