Renée Rapp is talking out concerning the scary 2022 incident that impressed the pressing title monitor to her Snow Angel album. The previous The Intercourse Lives of Faculty Women star lately launched her debut full-length album on Interscope — with the title track serving as the primary single — and in a brand new interview with On Objective podcast host Jay Shetty she revealed that dramatic track was impressed by a traumatic expertise final yr wherein she was drugged and misplaced practically a whole evening.
“I used to be drugged, and I had simply been lacking for seven hours,” Rapp instructed Shetty a couple of evening out in 2022 when she went to a celebration with a brand new group of associates after a breakup. “I actually let my judgment go when it got here to the those that have been round me. We have been all out, and it was simply state of affairs after state of affairs the place they have been simply not reliable, after which the following factor you knew, I used to be face up, laying down in a rest room stall in a resort bar, simply waking up at 5 within the morning, utterly alone.”
Rapp stated when she awakened alone within the rest room stall early within the morning she had no thought what occurred and noticed that she’d missed two texts from individuals she’d began hanging out with the evening earlier than.
“First to reach, final to depart/ What’s distress with out firm?/ It’s onerous to chortle when it’s onerous to breathe/ It’s white outdoors, however purple beneath,” she sings within the opening verse of the track earlier than dipping into the pre-chorus, “Really feel the tip of my nostril/ It’s burning, however it’s ice chilly.”
Rapp stated when she awakened the following day she noticed blood on her pants and had no thought what occurred throughout that misplaced time. “I used to be drugged, and I had simply been lacking for seven hours. I finished being associates with these individuals and stopped doing as a lot partying as I used to be doing,” she stated. “I instructed my mother and father, instructed a few of my associates. I defined it in a really matter-of-fact means, and so they have been all very involved and I didn’t even perceive what was taking place.”
It was onerous to course of the evening at first and she or he couldn’t wrap her head round what occurred for a number of months. However as soon as Rapp began working with the track’s co-writer, Alexander “23” Glantz, they discovered a approach to flip the scary occasion right into a transferring track.
“‘I actually wish to write a track about this,’” she stated of the incident she turned over-and-over in her thoughts, telling the story to a lot of associates who didn’t appear to be comprehend what she was saying. “We began writing it, and it was simply the 2 of us. And all the time I used to be writing it, I felt nothing,” Rapp stated. “Till we recorded the track and the entire thing was carried out and I performed it for my associates and my supervisor and all people was like, ‘That is insane.’ However for me, that complete yr of my life was inherent resilience.”
The excellent news is that Rapp, 23, stated she’s minimize ties with these individuals, however she nonetheless doesn’t know precisely how she feels about it. “I simply know that I really feel bizarre… and really resilient,” she stated. “I used to be similar to, ‘I don’t care what you already know or what you declare to know or don’t know.’ I simply wish to let it go.”
Rapp wil kick off her Snow Exhausting Emotions Tour in Houston, TX on Sept. 15.
Watch the “Snow Angel” video beneath.