All the DetailsRenee Rapp Slays With Debut Album ‘Snow Angel’: Song Breakdown and Lyric Meanings

‘Talk Too Much’

The singer admitted to writing this song after having a dream about her girlfriend and because of that, she’s seemingly having doubts about the relationship overall.

“I’m here again, talkin’ myself out of / My own happiness,” the chorus reads. “I’ll make it up ’til I quit / I wonder if we should just sit here in silence.”

‘I Hate Boston’

OK, so this song isn’t actually about Boston.

“I hate the familial f–king bulls–t that I went through in Boston,” she told Bustle. “It’s about a different city, but I use Boston as an alias because it sings better.”

‘Poison Poison’

Reneé admitted that she’s “really proud” of this track while chatting with Bustle.

“I wanted to write a song like that for a really long time, and I felt like this was a really great verse for that because it was honest,” she added. “It’s sitting back and just being like, ‘All right, bitch. If this is how you want to act, God will respond.'”

‘Gemini Moon’

Reneé told Apple Music that this song is “f–king funny” because she’s a Pisces moon,

“I wrote ‘Gemini Moon’ because I had a really tough breakup a couple years ago which started as us taking a break — this in-between thing where you’re feeling two states at once. I walked outside after this happened and I looked up and, of course, it’s a full f–king moon. That s–t always happens to me on a full moon. I always have full moons on my birthdays, and it sucked,” she shared. “Then I wondered if the moon is in Gemini right now. And through tears, I looked it up, and sure enough, it was Gemini moon. Then I was in the studio one day and fresh into a new relationship and I was experiencing being in love with someone again after having that fallout. I hadn’t felt that intensely for someone in a long time, and I was really scared. I was criticising every little thing I did. So I was like, wow, I wonder if it’s a Gemini moon right now. I looked it up and it was a Gemini moon, and I was like, are you f–king kidding? It was almost exactly two years apart.”

‘Snow Angel’

The album’s title track is about a past experience that Reneé had in “maybe February 2022,” she recalled to Bustle.

“Putting that kind of context out with actually no context was meant to be a placeholder for when I’m ready to talk about it,” Reneé explained, referring to the song’s meaning. “I don’t think at this point I want to talk about it, but soon, I totally would. It was just a s–tty experience with a bunch of people I thought were my friends but really weren’t.”

‘So What Now’

This song was written after a “really quick in-and-out” fling that Reneé experience, she told Apple Music about the track. The song is “the culmination of this overarching thought of ‘you’re treating me like s–t’ but also ‘I’m not mad at you, but what are we supposed to do?’” she added.

‘The Wedding Song’

For the first time, Reneé was in a relationship “with someone who I thought I was going to marry, and that was the first time that had ever happened to me,” she recalled to Apple Music. “It’s meant to be this really soul-sucking kind of song that’s so happy and beautiful in the chorus, then it’s just so sad in the verses because it’s like, ‘Well, this is what I would’ve said had you stuck around, but you decided to not and that’s just now something that I have to deal with.’”

‘Pretty Girls’

She referred to this track as “the universal gay-girl experience,” while chatting with Apple Music.

‘Tummy Hurts’

This was the last song written for the album, and it doesn’t come from any “specific” experience.

“I love this almost childlike way of saying I have a stomach ache and then this really adult feeling of someone is in love with somebody else,” Reneé shared with Apple Music. “I liked how it felt and I liked how it was worded. And it all came from there.”

‘I Wish’

More of a dark song, Reneé explained to Apple Music that she wrote this song as a “love letter to the idea that I wish I didn’t know about the concept of death.”

‘Willow’

Reneé called this one of her “favorite songs on the whole album,” while chatting with Apple Music. The song is inspired by weeping willow trees, which the singer said she “felt like I kind of had a lot of similar qualities to this tree, which sounds crazy, but I just always felt that way.”

She added, “I ended up framing it as my little self sitting under a willow tree talking to my current self. It was me personifying the tree as my younger self, which sounds kind of crazy.”

’23’

Based on her feelings of turning 23 years old, Reneé referred to it as “a birthday blues kind of song,” she told Apple Music.

“Then the outro is this hopeful message that I don’t feel that same way when I’m 24 next year,” she added. “So the kind of annual terror that comes around your birthday, it’s like wishing that away.”