Reneé Rapp has a pitch for the writers of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. The actress-singer was recently asked for the Today show’s “8 Before 8” video series, “If you had a guest starring role on SVU, what character would you play?” And it’s safe to say she doesn’t want just a victim or killer role. “Let me tell …
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Watch Reneé Rapp talk about herself in interviews, and two things quickly become clear: that she fucks, and that she gives none. Through her stints in youth theater (say hello to your 2018 Jimmy Awards winner), Broadway, Hollywood, and aspirant pop stardom, the 25-year-old singer from Huntersville, North Carolina has maintained a sharp-edged aversion to media training of any sort; …
Read More »NEW YORK (AP) — Reneé Rapp was clear on her intentions for her sophomore album, “Bite Me,” from the start. “I wanted to love this,” Rapp says. “I wanted to be able to walk away from this and be so proud of myself and impressed, no matter what anybody else thought.” Her first album, 2023’s “Snow Angel,” had been an …
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Ekkolaptómenos is the latest opus from Tokyo-based poet, punk, rapper, producer, and composer Haru Nemuri. If that sounds like a lot, it is. But Ekkolaptómenos, by virtue of its conviction, curiosity, and inescapable hugeness, coheres into a singular vision of experimental pop, albeit a discombobulating one. Like 2022’s Shunka Ryougen—her previous fusion of J-pop, J-rock, and American hardcore and rap—the …
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After turns on Broadway and the big screen, Reneé Rapp now has an eye on the pop charts with her new album, Bite Me. Zora Sicher/Interscope Records hide caption toggle caption Zora Sicher/Interscope Records Reneé Rapp was just 19 when she learned she’d be going to Broadway to play the meanest of the Mean Girls, Regina George. Last year, she …
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In some ways, Reneé Rapp was burnt out before she even really got started. The singer-songwriter-actor’s 2023 debut album, Snow Angel, preceded a major tour, a starring role in the blockbuster movie musical adaptation of Mean Girls and the end of her run on the hit HBO series, The Sex Lives of College Girls. After all of that, Rapp, 25, …
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