Addison Rae and her Addison producers are back in the studio

One of 2025’s best and most surprising debuts came from Addison Rae, former TikToker turned pop’s latest ingenué. Addison, released in June, was as unexpected as it was career-changing, its 12 simultaneously messy-but-manicured, insouciant songs catapulting her into left-field pop’s “the girls who get it, get it” obsession. I called the album’s incredible singles run one of “music’s greatest rebrands,” and a lot of it had to do with the creative synergy she’d clearly found with songwriter Luka Kloser and producer Elvira Anderfjärd, the two women and Max Martin acolytes who made up the album’s sole songwriting and production credits alongside Rae. That three women were behind some of the best new pop music coming out of 2025 is a rarity in the music business, and fans glommed onto this tidbit following the record’s release.

It seems Rae is more than aware of how essential Kloser and Anderfjärd are to her identity as a musician as she’s now confirmed that the trio have been back in the studio to make more music — hallelujah. In a revealing new Billboard cover story with the trio, Rae coyly answered that “[they] have” been creating new songs together, though didn’t elaborate further.

It makes sense; after scoring massive success with Kloser and Anderfjärd with Addison, why reinvent the wheel? Rae told Billboard as much, explaining that a casual songwriting session with Kloser and Anderfjärd that resulted in “Diet Pepsi” is what told her that she’d struck gold. “We all knew it was really special, and so we were, for sure, planning to write again,” she said.

Elsewhere in the interview, Rae opened up about the creation of several of the album’s most memorable songs like “Summer Forever” and “Aquamarine,” the latter of which was inspired by the 2006 YA movie of the same name. Rae also revealed that she would put on background videos to set the mood while writing, including clips from old movies.

Calling the music of Addison “rare and singular,” Rae added that she “fully trusts” Kloser and Anderfjard and described their dynamic as “exactly where I needed to be.”

“There were people I played [“Diet Pepsi”] to who were like, ‘I don’t know if this is what people want from you,'” she told Billboard, “And I was like, ‘Well, I don’t think people know what they want from me.’ If I had to give any advice to anybody, it would probably just be to do what you want and don’t do what people think they want from you because that’s already so many steps behind. Once you give somebody what they think they want, it’s old news already.”