Reneé Rapp goes to the “Mean Girls” New York best at AMC Lincoln Square Theater on Jan. 8, 2024 in New York City. John Lamparski/WireImage
Reneé Rapp gets on a roll. After gaining the most significant U.S. sales launching in 2023 for a launching pop cd by a women musician with Snow Angel, the multi-hyphenate has actually converted that success to movie with package office-topping Mean Girls as she preps brand-new songs. In a brand-new meeting with The Hollywood Reporter (Feb. 28), the “Tummy Hurts” vocalist spurts over obtaining actual blossoms from Beyoncé, her unique relationship with Megan Thee Stallion and her desire for making an R&B cd.
On Feb. 13, simply 2 days after Beyoncé surprise-dropped her brand-new nation tracks “Texas Hold ‘Em” and “16 Carriages” during the 2024 Super Bowl — Rapp performed a cover of Queen Bey’s initial appropriate venture right into c and w: “Daddy Lessons” from 2016’s Grammy-winning Lemonade. Just 4 days later on (Feb. 17), Rapp required to her Instagram page to share a picture of herself with her turn over her mouth as she absorbed the stunning arrangement of blossoms sent out to her by none aside from Beyoncé herself.
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“I’ve never been speechless in my life. It’s literally going to make me cry,” Rapp informed The Hollywood Reporter. “She is everything — and the reason that I know how to sing. I would sit down and listen to her different tonalities and phonics and phrasing styles and be like, ‘Please, Jesus, let me be able to do this.’”
Beyoncé has actually been a component in Rapp’s life long prior to she took the globe by tornado with Mean Girls, The Sex Lives of College Girls and her Snow Angel LP. Back when she was attempting to get into the market, Rapp made use of to post covers of Beyoncé tracks on YouTube. Queen Bey likewise offered a little bit greater than simply music ideas for a young Rapp. “I had body dysmorphia and feeling like I had too much of an a–. If I felt badly about my body, my mother would make me sing ‘Bootylicious,’ and it was everything to me,” Rapp remembered, referencing Destiny’s Child‘s 2001 Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 hit.
Rapp might have obtained blossoms for her fast welcome of Beyoncé’s nation age — “Let’s be clear, Beyoncé doing country is the best thing that’s ever happened to country music” — yet she’s been taking ideas from every one of Queen Bey’s age, particularly her R&B ones. The “Poison Poison” vocalist notes Beyoncé, SZA, Frank Ocean and Jazmine Sullivan as developmental music impacts that “have made the biggest impact in [her] life.”
“I wanted so badly to do something that was slightly R&B-leaning, but in a way that wasn’t making something my own that is not at all my own, and something that feels authentic,” she clarified to The Hollywood Reporter. “I would love to do a project like that, but it needs to be done well … because I think if a white girl does anything that slightly emulates R&B, it’s praised 10 times more than when Black people do it … just because of the way the f—king world works, and it’s s–ty in that regard. But yeah, it is something that I want to do so badly, and I will do.”
In the meantime, Rapp is still seeking her pop-star desires, which she lately channelled right into “Not My Fault,” a Megan Thee Stallion cooperation that functioned as the lead solitary for the Mean Girls film music soundtrack. Gushing over having actually been a follower of the H-Town Hottie “since she was doing music videos and mixtapes on the f–king top of the parking garage, in that little tan top,” Renée defines Megan as caring good friend to whom she can open regarding anxiousness.
“It’s comforting to talk to her too about having anxiety,” she stated. “I’ll text her, I’ll be like, ‘I’m petrified.’ And she’ll be like, ‘It’s cool, I’m here. I’m scared too, but look, I’m going to be at the same thing. And so, at least we’ll have each other.’”
Reneé Rapp has actually landed one title on the Billboard 200; her launching LP, Snow Angel, came to a head at No. 44. “Not My Fault” has actually shown to be her most effective solitary to day, coming to a head at No. 18 on Pop Airplay and at No. 2 on the Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100.
