Mean Girls is headed back to movie theaters in musical form — not that you’d really get that from the highly-anticipated film’s first trailer. Taking the two-minute clip at face value, you’d more or less expect a full-on Mean Girls remake for Gen Z, all the classic bits, quips, and …
Read More »Reneé Rapp Embraces the High and Brings Out Kesha for 'Your Love Is My Drug' Cover
Reneé Rapp got the chance to perform with one of her heroes, Kesha, bringing out the pop star for a rendition of “Your Love Is My Drug” during her concert in Brooklyn last night, Nov. 2. The performance started with Rapp delivering the song solo, swapping the original’s pulsing 2010 …
Read More »Reneé Rapp and Lizzy McAlpine Deliver 'Wicked' Duet as Glinda and Elphaba on 'For Good'
Reneé Rapp‘s first New York stop on the Snow Hard Feelings tour — a sold-out show at Terminal 5 on Monday night — was only a few blocks away from Broadway’s Gershwin Theatre, home of Wicked, but the singer brought the musical to her fans. On the eve of Halloween, …
Read More »Renée Rapp and Jennifer Hudson Pay Homage to Destiny's Child With 'Dangerously in Love' Cover
Growing up, there wasn’t a girl group more important to Renée Rapp than Destiny’s Child. The influence of the trio’s runs and harmonies are subtly woven into the pop singer’s performance style, which was also shaped by the group she spent some time in: the questionably named Daddy’s Little Girls. …
Read More »Kendrick Lamar Brings On the Hits, Omar Apollo Sparkles at Life Is Beautiful Day Two
It’s official. Summer is over. The second day of Life Is Beautiful inaugurated the Fall season with a diverse lineup of performers across the festival’s stages in Downtown Las Vegas, with artists such as Kendrick Lamar, Reneé Rapp, the 1975, and Omar Apollo performing throughout the evening. (It might be …
Read More »Renée Rapp Recalls How Traumatic Drugging Experience Inspired Her Song 'Snow Angel'
Reneé Rapp has revealed that the title track on her new LP, Snow Angel, was inspired by a traumatic experience where she was drugged and went “missing for seven hours.” In an interview on Jay Shetty’sOn Purposepodcast, Rapp recounted how she had a night out with a new group of …
Read More »'Vile' Comments on 'Mean Girls' Broadway Set Exacerbated Reneé Rapp's Eating Disorder
Being on Broadway was a dream for Reneé Rapp, who briefly starred as Regina George in Mean Girls: The Musical before the COVID-19 pandemic shut it down. But at 19 years old, her experience on set for the production proved detrimental to her mental health and exacerbated her eating disorder, …
Read More »Reneé Rapp's 'Snow Angel' Is An Emotional Rollercoaster You'll Want to Ride
The debut full-length fromMean GirlsandSecret Life of College Girlsstar Reneé Rapp begins with a striking image: “Taste the blood in my mouth,” she coos at the start of its opening track “Talk Too Much,” an extreme close-up of a neurotic mind in what might be love. Spindly guitars and crisp …
Read More »Quavo, Usher, Reneé Rapp and All the Songs You Need to Know This Week
Welcome to our weeklyrundown of thebest new music — featuring big singles, key tracks from our favorite albums, and more.This week, Quavo honors the late Takeoff with a posthumous feature, Usher ups the jealousy ante in new song, and Reneé Rapp captures the plight of queer girls with pop perfection. …
Read More »Reneé Rapp Masters Self-Sabotage on New Single 'Talk Too Much'
Reneé Rapp becomes a master of self-sabotage on her latest single “Talk Too Much,” set to appear on her forthcoming debut album Snow Angel out Aug. 18. The record, produced with Alexander 23, finds the pop singer talking herself out of a good thing, over and over again, using extreme …
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