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- 0:00Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood. While Addison Ray has been releasing music
- 0:04Speaker 1: for a few years now, her career took a serious
- 0:07Speaker 1: upturn with her smash single Diet Pepsi. And it turns
- 0:11Speaker 1: out the writing and recording sessions that churned out that
- 0:14Speaker 1: smash came hot on the heels of another studio day,
- 0:18Speaker 1: Addison making her contributions to Charlie XCX's remix of Von Dutch,
- 0:22Speaker 1: and that experience lit a creative fire under Addison. She
- 0:26Speaker 1: tells Billboard, Charlie really gave me the confidence as a writer.
- 0:30Speaker 1: That's why I felt so sure going into our sessions.
- 0:33Speaker 1: Most of the sessions I did before I did the
- 0:35Speaker 1: Von Dutch remix session, I had a lot of writers
- 0:38Speaker 1: in the room, and I felt like I was leaning
- 0:41Speaker 1: on them a lot. Charlie really leaned on me, which
- 0:44Speaker 1: gave me so much confidence. And that's really when a
- 0:47Speaker 1: big shift happened for me as far as being a songwriter.
- 0:51Speaker 1: That's Addison Ray on the self trust Charlie XX infused
- 0:54Speaker 1: in her her album Addison is out Now. That's direct
- 0:58Speaker 1: from Hollywood.