- There is this cheeky little blonde bitch named Renee.
(Renee laughing)
Hey, what's up?
I'm Renee Rapp and I'm gonna be playing a game
of song association with Elle.
I'll be given a word
and I will have 10 seconds,
no more no less, to sing or rap that in a song.
Before we get into the game, make sure to check out
a song that I have literally never tried to promote
in my life, Tattoos, which is my first song.
Go check out Tattoos.
Thank you.
This necklace says "Presave Tattoos" and I've managed to
make this song my whole personality.
(Renee laughing)
Change.
(clock ticking)
♪ Waiting on a change to come. ♪
(ding)
I don't know what song that is.
♪ Waiting for a change to come. ♪
It might be a musical theater song.
♪ Waiting, waiting, waiting on the world to change. ♪
That's a good one.
Oh, that's John Mayer?
Slay John.
Song.
Song?
(clock ticking)
♪ This is my fight song. ♪
(ding)
♪ Oh ♪
Slay Rachel, that's good.
Pick.
(clock ticking)
Pick like P I C K?
(buzzer)
Mean.
♪ Why you gotta be so mean? ♪
♪ Someday I'll be bigger because of this city ♪
♪ And all you'll ever have to be is mean. ♪
I think it's Taylor Swift or if I wanna go like
very deep cut, it's not really deep cut,
but I did Mean Girls on Broadway and I sang
♪ Mean, mean, mean. ♪
(ding)
Like every night, but up like two octaves.
(Renee laughing)
Like very high at the end of the song.
♪ Mean, mean. ♪
Let's pray, okay?
♪ Mean. ♪
It'll be like that.
It'll be super high in pingy.
Like very musical theater.
I was Regina in Mean Girls on Broadway after high school.
And it was so much fun, but there's this part
in that song that I was just sing, World Burn.
There was like a lift in the back basically.
And I would have to like run around the back of the lift
and then I would get buckled in, right?
And then I would have to like, look like this
and I couldn't move and I'd have to sing the literal
like highest part of the song.
It would just like raise me up and it'd be like,
♪ (singing high notes) ♪
and it would be crazy.
And the lift used to stop some nights,
which was great.
But also what the audience didn't know is I could
literally see every single person's face, like every person.
So like I never, ever, ever was in character.
I was literally just watching people in the audience
the whole time and I did not get fired.
Girl.
Alicia Keys.
♪ This girl in on fire, ♪
(ding)
♪ Fire, fire. ♪
♪ This girl is on fire. ♪
I love that song, it's good, or
♪ Tell me you're my girl. ♪
(ding)
Which I think is
♪ Everything you want is yours. ♪
I can't think of who sings that.
The internet?
I think it's the internet.
Free.
Free. Free.
(clock ticking)
Can I? No.
Free.
(buzzer)
What the (beep) says free?
Again.
(clock ticking)
Oh, this is a Ingrid Michaelson song,
that's out of my head
♪ To being again, to begin again, to begin ♪
(ding)
♪ Da da da. ♪
♪ Another day, I will write ♪
♪ another way to begin again. ♪
♪ To begin again, to begin. ♪
I love you, Ingrid.
We know each other through Broadway.
She wrote The Notebook musical that's coming out.
Look how much I'm talking about musicals.
She wrote it.
It's coming out like later this year, I think.
And the music is, I'm gonna cuss again.
It is (beep) phenomenal.
It's so good.
And she did all the music for it and she's amazing.
She's such a good songwriter.
Tattoo.
Where do I say tattoos in the song?
Oh.
♪ If I'm being honest. ♪
♪ when you look at me, it's like kissing a million angels ♪
♪ and every tattoo's so intoxicating. ♪
(ding)
♪ From your neck, yeah, right down to your ankles. ♪
There is this cheeky little blonde bitch named Renee,
(Renee laughing)
who has this song, Tattoos,
that I think everybody should go listen to.
It's written about a really shit situation
with somebody who is like not ideal,
but the greatest songs come from the worst situations.
And it is a song called Tattoos.
Another fun fact about Tattoos.
I was on like a two week, like kind of like a bender.
I didn't go to college.
So I never feel
like I had that experience to just like go off.
And so I took the opportunity
and I was going off and doing way too much.
We smoke weed.
We're like drinking, right? You have a come down.
We were just talking about this.
And my come down was very intense.
And I wrote this incredibly emotional song
about someone I, you could not pay me to look at
literally ever again, very nice person, very nice person,
but I don't know what the entire I was doing.
So yeah, I was crying.
I was writing it.
And at first it was supposed to be like a really nice song.
It was supposed to be like,
ah this is like, so lovey dovey.
And then I was like,
oh actually I don't really think I care much
about this person.
I think I would just rather be
with somebody than be by myself.
And that's what happened.
Money.
♪ Money, money, money, money, money. ♪
(ding)
And that is the intro song to Shark Tank,
which is one of my favorite shows.
Fun fact, I once met Mark Cuban
and that is the most starstruck I've ever been in my life.
But it was NBA All Star weekend,
I believe 2018 or 2019.
And it was in Charlotte, which is where I'm from.
I was like, that's Mark Cuban.
I was like, that's daddy.
I didn't call him daddy to his face.
I didn't.
I should have.
Frankly, I like, daddy is like it's kind of like
a character trait.
I call a lot of people daddy behind their backs.
Like any boss I've ever had I call daddy.
Like Tina Faye, that's daddy.
Mindy Kaling, that's daddy.
Lorne Michaels, daddy.
Me?
Not daddy.
Working for daddy Tina Fey and daddy Mindy Kaling
is a blessing.
It is a blessing because not only are they cool,
but like they have complete daddy energy.
Like they're both like incredibly (beep) talented.
Sorry.
But also they're just like good people.
And they've just kind of shown me that like I can
enter into any room as I see fit.
College.
The only thing I can think of is college girls,
The Sex Lives of College Girls.
And we don't have a theme song,
so I'm gonna go ahead and write it right now.
Everybody clap for me on this tempo.
(buzzer)
All right.
♪ The Sex Lives of College Girls is all on HBO Max. ♪
♪ There's four girls in the show ♪
♪ and we all have each other's backs. ♪
♪ Okay, it's me who plays Leighton, ♪
♪ and Aaliyah who plays Whitney, ♪
♪ and Pauline who plays Kimberly, ♪
♪ and Amrit who plays Bela. ♪
♪ Go watch the show. Go listen to Tattoos. ♪
♪ Go listen to in the kitchen, everything we do ♪
♪ because we try so hard to make everybody ♪
♪ listen to my song. ♪
(Renee clapping, audience cheering)
And that is the next single that is dropping.
Also, I just wrote the theme song for our show.
So I don't know what everybody's doing,
but Mindy if you see this plug it.
Burn.
The classic.
The great prophet, Nick Jonas once said
I'm burning up,
(ding)
burning up for you.
Baby.
♪ I'm burning up, burning up for you, baby. ♪
♪ Into the water. ♪
It's a great song.
That song changed me.
Star.
♪ Starship were meant to fly. ♪
(ding)
♪ Hands up and touch the sky. ♪
♪ Oh, starships were meant to fly. ♪
♪ Let's do this one more time. ♪
The great prophet, Nikki Minaj.
Something.
♪ Something. You and I got something. ♪
(ding)
♪ Oh, oh, something. ♪
It's Lalah Hathaway.
And it's just an improv session I think
with her and Snarky Puppy.
And it's amazing.
It's like a 10 minute video on YouTube
and Lalah Hathaway harmonizes with herself.
I can't do that, but she's like,
♪ (Renee singing musical notes) ♪
and she can sing two notes at one time
and it's called something.
Phone.
♪ Pick up the phone, baby. ♪
(ding)
♪ I know you're home, baby. ♪
♪ It's lit, pick up the phone, baby. ♪
♪ I just wanna go far, baby girl. ♪
♪ Never would I cheat on you. ♪
♪ Never would I give you reason. ♪
Good song.
It's Travis, right?
Travis Scott?
Yeah, it's Travis Scott.
It's Birds in the Trap Sing McNight,
which is a no skip album.
Lie.
I do not wanna say what I'm about to say.
I really can't.
It would expose so much of too much
like I did earlier.
Lie.
(buzzer)
I can't, I pass cause I cannot say the song
that I'm thinking of because
I will be incredibly embarrassed.
I can't, I literally can't.
It would give so much away.
And after we stop rolling, I'll tell you what it is.
To be honest, I'm quite disappointed,
but I am proud of my improvisation.
I do think that, you know,
a great person probably once said make it your own.
Today I really harnessed that.
Thanks for watching my song association video.
You should go stream and listen to Tattoos in the kitchen
again by this little blonde bitch.
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