Addison Rae had a fiery message for her “haters” as she made her stage debut at the 2026 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.
“To my fans who have supported me from Day 1, I love you, thank you,” Rae, 25, quipped in the middle of her Saturday, April 11, performance, per social media footage. “And to my haters? Suck my d***.”
Rae dazzled the crowd with several of her biggest hits on Saturday, also enlisting Dance Moms alum-turned-actress Maddie Ziegler to dance to “Aquamarine.” The set kicked off Rae’s “The Fame and Glory Show” tour.
Rae, who rose to fame as a TikTok influencer before taking over the pop charts and earning her first Grammy nomination, has clear goals for her music career.
“I walked in with a binder, and I made a slideshow,” Rae told Rolling Stone in a January 2025 profile. “I just mood-boarded my vibes. I literally had no music to play [Columbia Records CEO Ron Perry] at that point, so it was about trust. Like, ‘Yes, I’m in the clouds, and I enjoy being there. But I’m also serious.’”
Rae further stressed that she always tries to be unapologetically herself when she hits the stage.
“People have decided who I am,” she told the outlet. “I’ll be your girl next door, but maybe there’s a wild side to the girl next door.”
Rae continued, “TikTok definitely gave me a lot of things, so it would be really sad to [see it] go, but hopefully the things that I create and put out surpass that platform … but I won’t beg for it. I’ll work for it.”
As Rae’s career has only exploded, she’s taking each moment as it comes.
“I enjoy fame. I think fame is very exposing and raw, and it puts you in a position that not everyone gets to experience,” the “Diet Pepsi” singer told The Guardian in December 2025. “I enjoy the luxury of it all, though of course there is a price you pay.”
She concluded, “I trust that the people who indulge in my artistry treat it with kindness and acceptance and love and understanding, in a way that maybe I didn’t before, and that’s honestly the dream, that I’m never fully understood. If that ever were to change, I think it would be quite boring actually.”
Rae will return to Coachella during its second weekend on April 18.
