Reneé Rapp navigates the music industry and relationships about “Bite Me”

New York (AP) – Reneé Rapp was clear from the start with her intentions for her second album “Bite Me”.

“I wanted to love that,” says Rapp. “I wanted to be able to go away and be so proud of myself and be impressed, no matter what someone else thought.” Your first album, 2023, “Snow Sail”, “ was an experiment to find out her sound (a mixture of pop, r & b and heartbreaking ballads) and to build a collection of songs that worked together. This album, Out Friday, offered the chance to do it again, with a view of the way her life had changed in the interim years.

“This intention and also to prove it myself was really exhausting,” said Rapp of Associated Press. “And really fun too.”

The writing process gave Rapp, 25, an outlet to work through the burnout incineries that was her career in these two years. Holded out in his vocal styling, the Lead single of the album, “Leave Me Alone”, is strikingly open – Clever Zinger shows against her departure from HBO's “Sex life of college girl” the media frenzy, the surrounding They are on the turn as regina in 2024 remake of “Mean Girls”, “ And the external pressure she felt after the positive reception of “Snow Engel” to interpret more music. Basically, everything that has been said about her in recent years has been said? She frames it again and makes fun of her reputation and the industry.

“Leave me alone” felt like a real introduction to the album, says Rapp, and “Bite Me” – both a warning and a tease – the corresponding title. Paris Hilton and Monica Lewinsky were one of the famous faces who teased the album after his announcement and attracted Merch with the title in bold pressure. Rapp himself posed in front of a kiosk with a boust newspapers, which she represented as a diva that was hidden behind the large sunglasses and a fur coat to advertise the second single “Mad”. (“This is a rapp!” The heading was.)

“It really feels like a time capsule of this two years of my life to do a lot with the business and the industry and expectations of people,” says Rapp about the album. “And then I also want things for myself and confused where these two streets differ.”

Rapp's self -confidence and humor are obvious on the album, just like it is on stage – “I write texts in the way I talk,” she says. Many of the tracks deal with the destabilizing emotions that accompany the beginning and end of the relationships, whether platonic or romantic, and how their now very public career has strengthened the challenges of creating and maintaining these connections.

“I am surrounded all the time, but I feel so lonely and it feels really difficult and insulating. And I think a lot is just an artist. And I also think that a lot of it is the nature of the business, for a good or bad,” she says. The non-not-better attitude, which can be heard on “Leave me alone”, is counteracted by the pain of “This is so funny”, which tells the end of a deeply influenced, but ultimately poisonous friendship in Rapp's signature rising vocals.

This does not mean that Rapp doesn't have fun either. The cheeky “at least I'm hot” shows Rapp's girlfriend, the singer and guitarist Towa Bird. “I love it when artists give them an indication of their lives and the people who make their lives full,” said Rapp. The track, she says, is just funny: “Who is better to do that than the funniest people alive?”

The mixture of emotions of the album – heartache, followed by the rush of a new swarm, the Imbostor syndrome, which accompanies the thrill of success – is something The AP Breakthrough Entertainer Alaun Explored “everything for everyone” since her 2022 EP. She wants the listeners to feel the conflict – and know that they are not alone when they experience it.

In June, Rapp served as the large marshal of the World Pride Parade in Washington, DC, next to Laverne Cox and Deacon Maccubbin. “It can be difficult to feel resilient and strengthened as a strange person,” said Rapp. “Because World Pride was in DC, I thought I can't be there.” She remembered a conversation with Cox, which destroyed some of Rapp's fears to be in the role of self -essential by emphasizing the power of diving and face on the face. “At the moment when everything is attacked so that it is pretty much always, it feels like this is the time to be really loud.”