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ICYMI | Who TF Is Grammy-Nominated Alex Warren?

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4.66K Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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On today’s episode host Kate Lindsay is joined by Yahoo News senior entertainment writer, Kelsey Weekman, to answer the question on everyone’s lips: Who is Alex Warren and why is every store playing his music? The Hype House OG is nominated for Best New Artist at the Grammys, and is part of a growing wave of musicians making “secular praise music.” Where did Alex Warren come from, and how did he pull off a musical career pivot when so many other TikTokkers failed?  This podcast is produced by Daisy Rosario, Vic Whitley-Berry, and Kate Lindsay. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:51.7

And back in the studio with me today, we have Kelsey Weakman, senior

0:55.8

entertainment reporter at Yahoo News. Hello, Kelsey. Hello, Kate. I'm so happy to be here.

1:01.2

I'm glad to have you. As an entertainment reporter, I know that you also have seen that the

1:06.7

Grammy nominations were recently announced, and all the sort of usual suspects are there. We have Bad Bunny, Kendrick Lamar, Chappel Rhone, Doche, Sabrina Carpenter. They're all over these lists. Gang's all here. But of course, I'm scouring, and I'm sure you are as well, as someone of internet culture background. Scouring for that internet culture angle. And Kelsey, five years ago, did you ever think we'd see the

1:27.5

headline Grammy-nominated artist Addison Ray? Well, no. And I want to say yes, maybe two years ago.

1:35.4

I could have seen that. But certainly not five years ago. No, it was a very different world.

1:44.0

Right, because five years ago, she was a member of the hype house, which was sort of a new, new TikTok content house.

1:52.1

We'll talk more about it later.

1:53.9

But she was very much just a TikToker doing dances.

1:57.7

There's that iconic video of her, like like dancing in the street and telling fans to

2:01.9

wait. Hold on and then do this dance and then I'll sign. Yeah, and then I'll sign. And now she's

2:07.7

like on a roll. Like she is selling out venues. She is like on par now with Charlie XX. Her

2:16.1

camp is like circled back around to being

2:19.4

iconic. And yeah, she's nominated for Best New Artist. But also, her song, like, Pepsi, robbed.

2:27.6

It was not nominated for anything, right? Yeah, it was seriously overlooked, but many stars were

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