Reneé Rapp‘s newest single, “Go away Me Alone,” particulars an uneven tug-of-war between work and play, with escapism and partying popping out on prime. However because the musician makes her American Music Awards debut, she’s rebalancing the scales on her personal phrases.
Rapp started her efficiency inside a membership restroom set earlier than singing, “I’m an actual dangerous woman however an actual good kisser,” and breaking out of the set, surrounded by seven dancers. Rapp strutted throughout the stage in a corseted prime and golden belts, commanding the Fontainebleau’s consideration.
At one level, Rapp lay down as a digicam captured her from a fowl’s-eye view. “My ex walked in and my different ex together with her / Go away me alone, babe, I wanna have enjoyable,” she sang, swapping out the phrase “bitch” within the lyrics. “Put the three of us collectively, that’s an actual tongue tornado / Go away me alone, babe, I wanna have enjoyable.”
“Go away Me Alone” marked the primary launch from Rapp as a lead artist since sharing the deluxe version of her debut album Snow Angel in 2023. “Snow Angel permits Rapp to channel her larger-than-life feelings into twisty pop songs that take huge swings whereas being keenly conscious of the human at their core,” Rolling Stone wrote in a evaluate of the document on the time. As the primary glimpse into her second album, “Go away Me Alone” serves as a private reminder for Rapp that being a pop star ought to be enjoyable.
It’s the job title she’s at all times needed, however not the one one she’s ever had. At one level, she was working 14-hour days of the HBO Max sequence Intercourse Lives of Faculty Women earlier than heading to the studio to work on Snow Angel. After two seasons on the present, she minimize the thread tethering her to that world and shifted her focus in direction of cementing herself as certainly one of pop’s most promising rising stars. “I overextended myself,” she informed Rolling Stone in 2023. “However I’m glad I did. I’m not huge into regrets.”
Rapp references the present, which has since been cancelled, on “Go away Me Alone,” singing: “Signed 100 NDAs however I nonetheless say one thing/Go away me alone, bitch, I wanna have enjoyable/Took my intercourse life with me, now the present ain’t fuckin’.” She needed to tweak her supply for the tv efficiency, but it surely didn’t lose any of its chaotic allure within the course of.
The 2025 American Music Awards additionally options performances from Benson Boone, Lainey Wilson, Blake Shelton, Gwen Stefani, Gloria Estefan, Jennifer Lopez, and Janet Jackson. The awards present is airing stay from the Fountainbleau Las Vegas through CBS and streaming on Paramount+.