Reneé Rapp has released her snarky new single ‘Mad’, from her upcoming second album ‘Bite Me’ – listen below.
‘Mad’ is the second single from her upcoming album, ‘Bite Me’, following the lead single ‘Leave Me Alone’. The music video for ‘Mad’ stars Rapp and Barbie actress Alexandra Shipp and captures a couple’s emotional unraveling. “All of the time, you wasted in your head / We could’ve been having sex / You could’ve been getting all of my time / But you were being mad,” she sings on the chorus song.
‘Bite Me’ will come after a period where Rapp was feeling “really burnt out”, as she told PAPER Magazine, following an album cycle for her debut record ‘Snow Angel, a tour and a press run for a movie. “I stopped loving what I was doing,” she told the outlet. “I was like, ‘I need to shed everything that is hurting me off of my body immediately’.”
“I was like, ‘This has to go away.’ I was like, ‘All right, I’m going off birth control. I’m gonna wean myself off medication because I don’t think I need that right now. I’m gonna do crazy kinds of therapy’,” she said. “I went through months of ketamine therapy. I basically did a purge of everything bad out of my body.”
Watch the music video for Rapp’s ‘Mad’ below.
Earlier this month, Rapp appeared to teased an upcoming tour with a series of social media posts inspired by early 2000s tabloids. The pop culture-inspired teaser, which seemingly called back to the arrest of Justin Timberlake for drunk driving, seemingly confirming Rapp has upcoming dates between September and October.
Elsewhere, earlier this month, Rapp reacted to the news of Tory Lanez‘s stabbing in prison, quipping “maybe we should be stabbing more”.
The singer and Means Girls actor made the comments in a new interview with Ziwe, where she was asked how she felt about news that the rapper had been attacked while in prison.
Lanez (real name Daystar Peterson) is currently serving 10 years in prison after being convicted of shooting Megan Thee Stallion in 2020. Last month, it was reported that he was attacked by a fellow inmate at the California Correctional Institution at Tehachapi; stabbed 14 times, with both of his lungs reportedly collapsing and him requiring a breathing apparatus.
“I feel like a lot of people get stabbed and that’s OK,” Rapp said in the interview. “Maybe we should be doing it more. Maybe we should be stabbing more […] Shiv in the pocket.”