Reneé Rapp is leaning into her id, her artistry, and the identify she says was designed for the highlight.
Throughout a brand new episode of the Good Hang podcast with Amy Poehler, the singer and actor opened up about her early path to pop stardom, revealing that her mom, Denise Rapp, intentionally gave her an alliterative identify to assist her achieve leisure.
“My mother selected my first and final identify to be—properly, okay, arguably selected my first and final identify to each have R’s,” Rapp mentioned. “She was like, ‘Alliteration, simply in case she desires to be a pop star.’ Like earlier than I used to be born.”
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“She gave you a pop star identify simply in case, as a result of Reneé Rapp is a large pop star identify,” Poehler responded. Rapp agreed: “It’s a extremely good one.”
The dialog additionally touched on Rapp’s expertise publicly popping out as a lesbian whereas showing on Saturday Evening Stay in January. She recalled asking the writers to revise a line in a sketch that referred to her as a “little bisexual intern.”
“At the moment I used to be very publicly bisexual,” Rapp mentioned. “In personal, I used to be speaking with my girlfriend and quite a lot of my buddies for the final possibly eight months earlier than that of being like, ‘I truly don’t actually really feel very bi for the time being. I really feel very very similar to a lesbian and it feels so good and that phrase feels superb.’”
“Labeling your self publicly is admittedly, actually, actually empowering,” she added. “And in addition, I feel, might be type of intimidating.” She described the second as “fairly c—y” and mentioned it felt “so f—ing good.”
Earlier this week, Rapp debuted a brand new single titled “Go away Me Alone” throughout her stay efficiency on the 2025 American Music Awards. The fiery, guitar-heavy monitor addresses her frustrations with fame and references her exit from the now-cancelled HBO Max collection The Intercourse Lives of Faculty Ladies.
“Signed 100 NDAs however I nonetheless say one thing / Go away me alone, b—h, I wanna have enjoyable / Took my intercourse life with me, now the present ain’t f—in’,” she sings on the refrain.
“Go away Me Alone” marks the primary launch from Rapp’s upcoming sophomore album Chunk Me, which is about for launch on Aug. 1 by way of Interscope. The album follows 2023’s Snow Angel, which debuted at No. 44 on the Billboard 200 and peaked at No. 2 on the Heatseekers Albums chart. The title monitor additionally reached No. 4 on Billboard’s Scorching Trending Songs chart.
Chunk Me is out Aug. 1.