Reneé Rapp is one of the new American pop stars that are going to hear a lot in the coming years. Although, for the moment, his second album, ‘Bite Me’, has not assaulted the lists of successes as he should, nor any of his singles has penetrated the official lists of any country: ‘Leave Me Alone’, the shameless first single of ‘Bite Me’, has only bubbled “below the Billboard Hot 100. In the United Kingdom it has not passed the 69th position. In New Zealand, at least, he has reached 8.
‘Bite me’ contains material varied enough to conquer different types of audiences: Olivia Rodrigo’s fan, but also the nostalgic Avril Lavigne. And speaking of nostalgia, ‘Kiss it kiss it’ takes the palm.
‘Kiss It Kiss It’ is an apparent recreation of ‘Stupid Girl’ (1995), one of Garbage’s greatest successes, of which extra and battery line mainly. The sound is not so alternative or grunge and the keyboards of ‘Kiss it kiss it’ is pure pop, but inspiration is evident.
With this idea, Rapp gives an energetic pop-rock song that describes the story of a sexual and furtive encounter with a girl who makes her disappear for 40 hours: her friends desperately call her thinking she has died. Somehow, he has seen heaven.
“You have me crying, and not because I am sad,” is one of the loud phrases that the song leaves. The order of the title of ‘Kiss It Kiss It’ of course is sexual, and the second stanza confirms it without “rodeos”: “I think we have almost done a child / we cannot, but we have been close.” And so close stays from the death that sings: “They will have to bury me before I leave will.” This bridge? Better than Brooklyn.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6khxwrkmauw
