Addison Rae Confirms She's Changed Her Name to 'Addison': 'I've Grown Past Just Being Called Addison Rae'

NEED TO KNOW

• Addison Rae appeared Quen Blackwell's YouTube series Feeding Starving Celebrities on Sunday, June 8

• There, she chatted about her new album, Addison , and how she decided to self-title her debut album

• She also revealed that since releasing her album, she decided her stage name would be just "Addison"

Addison Rae would like to reintroduce herself to fans.

On Sunday, June 8, the pop singer appeared on friend and internet personality Quen Blackwell's YouTube series Feeding Starving Celebrities . During their conversation, Addison (whose real name is Addison Rae Easterling) chatted about releasing her debut album, Addison .

The "Fame Is a Gun" singer, 24, first explained that she thought about self-titling the album "for a really long time," noting, "when you do hear all of the music like straight through, there's not really a title that like encompasses all of it." 

"Everybody that I played it to as well they were just like, 'Oh it just sounds like just like you. Like it just sounds like music you would make,'" she recalled for Blackwell, also 24. "I don't really know what else to call it and so I was like, 'Maybe then the album is just my name.'" 

"I like the fact that you are changing your stage name and taking off the 'Rae,'" Blackwell replied. "Is that something you've talked about?"

Addison responded by saying she hasn't spoken publicly in depth about that, "But I said it in an interview, I was just like 'Oh I think I've you know I've grown past just being called Addison Rae.' And then the album being named Addison kind of was like a tie-in for that." 

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"Whoever knows me as Addison Rae and knew me as Addison Rae will always know me as that anyways," she acknowledged, before confessing, "I just am tired of also signing Addison Rae. It's really long." 

"I just would rather sign 'Addison,'" she admitted, while giggling. "And then I was like, 'Yeah, it just makes more sense because like it's going back to the roots really.'"

"The truth," Blackwell proposed. "What you were called as a kid. You've always been Addison."

The singer then acknowledged, "But I know you're going to put Addison Rae on the title [of the YouTube video]." Blackwell then gave a cheeky side-eye directly to the camera, preemptively admitting that the title would in fact have her former stage name.

"It's okay, approved because I'm still Addison Rae until after this album," Addison said.

"And then you're Addison," Blackwell said. "And then I'll delete it out the title." 

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