In some ways, Reneé Rapp was burnt out before she even got started. The singer-song-writer-actor’s 2023 debut album, Snow Angel, preceded a major tour, a starring role in the blockbuster movie musical adaptation of Mean Girls, and the end of her run on the HBO series The Sex Lives of College Girls. After all of that, Rapp, 25, took some time for herself while making her fun, bratty, propulsive new record, Bite Me, out now.
Now that she’s on the hamster wheel of pop stardom again, she’s still not sure how she feels about it. “I make music for myself, but I don’t put out music for myself,” she says. “I don’t promote things for myself. If I was just going to do [it all] for myself, I wouldn’t put…