We’ve had some great lesbian pop stars in our time – kd lang, Janis Ian, Joan Armatrading – but they do tend to be on the more serious end of the spectrum. It feels like we’ve never really had a pop-dancy lesbian-with-attitude pop muppet… until now that is.
Welcome Reneé Rapp – just look at that weird accent! – ex-Broadway star (she appeared alongside Sabrina Carpenter in the Mean Girls musical) and gorgeously outspoken fun lesbian pop muppet, whose latest album, Bite Me, is a heady mix of rock and pop with flavours that veer from Alanis through Sabrina to Toni Basil.
We’re especially loving Mad, where she tells a deranged girlfriend that if she wasn’t all up in her head they could have been having sex; Why Is She Still Here? where she asks another girlfriend if having sex on the kitchen floor meant nothing to her (there’s a lot of having sex with Ms. Rapp) and the almost Pet Shop Boys-sounding (the title at least) I Think I Like You Better When You’re Gone.
A real find. Open Spotify immediately.
