Reneé Rapp is seemingly dissing her previous job in her newly-released single “Depart Me Alone.”
The actress and singer, who performed Leighton Murray on the HBO collection The Intercourse Lives of Faculty Ladies earlier than departing the collection throughout season three, appeared to throw shade on the present with one of many music’s lyrics, which dropped on Wednesday.
“I took my intercourse life with me, now the present ain’t fucking / Depart me alone, bitch, I wanna have enjoyable,” Rapp sings within the second verse.
The Hollywood Reporter reached out to HBO Max and Rapp’s reps for remark, as she has but to verify if she’s instantly referencing the present in stated lyric.
“Depart Me Alone” is her first music launch since her debut album Snow Angel dropped in 2023. Her sophomore album, BITE ME, can be set to launch on Aug. 1.
After first debuting Leighton throughout season one among The Intercourse Lives of Faculty Ladies in 2021, it was later introduced that Rapp could be exiting the present throughout season three, which aired final yr. When Rapp, who additionally starred within the Imply Ladies film musical, was requested about her departure throughout a February 2024 THR cowl story, she shared that the choice depart “was laborious for therefore many causes,” recalling the troublesome expertise of coming to phrases along with her personal sexuality on the similar time her character was doing so within the collection.
“That [show] was essentially the most parallel expertise in my life, and I bear in mind doing that particular coming-out scene and never appearing in any respect. In any respect,” she stated on the time. “I used to be simply sobbing. I see that and I don’t see a personality. I’m like, ‘That’s me.’”
Rapp appeared within the first two episodes of the third season earlier than her character Leighton made the troublesome resolution to switch from Essex Faculty to MIT due to the varsity’s math program, which is able to assist her along with her future profession in finance.
The Intercourse Lives of Faculty Ladies, which additionally starred Amrit Kaur (Bela), Pauline Chalamet (Kimberly) and Alyah Chanelle Scott (Whitney) was canceled after season three earlier this yr.
