Reneé Rapp, Mad | Song Review 🎵

An angry, rather mad Reneé Rapp drops another pop bop in “Mad” ahead of her sophomore album, BITE ME.

“Iwish I could take that pretty little face / And shake some sense into you (Like).” Oh, snap, Reneé Rapp!  The pop singer-songwriter is “Mad” about her love interest being mad instead of embracing love and intimacy, hence why she sings the excerpted lines from the song’s pre-chorus. “Mad” follows Rapp’s brilliant single, “Leave Me Alone”, which also appears on her sophomore album, BITE ME. Omer Fedi, Carter Lang, Solomonphonic, and Alexander 23 produced this mad gem, which thrives on guitars and alternative and rock/pop cues. 

Reneé Rapp sings well from the get-go. She brings energy, accurate pitch, and sings sincerely.  In the first verse, the discord is perceptible. “Not a single little curl that’s on your head don’t want me dead,” she sings, continuing, “Okay, I get it, you wanna be mad.” In the second verse, we get a unique lyric where Rapp wishes to replace her Marlboro with her finger: “Slow down, put my finger in your mouth / Pull the bitter taste out, baby, you can have me instead.” Still, Rapp’s girlfriend, if she’s even that, seems utterly displeased.  Instead of the anger, in the tuneful, unforgettable chorus, Reneé encourages love, romance, and sex:

“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.”

In the final chorus, Rapp gets even madder, throwing in the f-bomb: “All of the time you were fucking with my head / We could’ve been having sex.” The song closes sexually as well… “Mad” marks another bop from Reneé Rapp released ahead of BITE ME.  Quality singing, songwriting, and production all tick off the boxes of a successful song.