21-07-2025
Reneé Rapp Is Haunted by Her Lover's Ex on ‘Why Is She Still Here?'
Reneé Rapp's got a lot of questions on latest single 'Why Is She Still Here?' Rapp used the R&B-inflected, bass guitar-driven pop ballad to ask her lover, 'If I'm your girl, then why is she still here?' Unfortunately, the singer doesn't get many, or really any, answers at all. But she does use the track to show off bold vocal trills and deliver stinging lines like, 'You can tell me you don't love her, you should probably tell her too.'
'Why Is She Still Here?' marks Rapp's third single for her forthcoming LP Bite Me, out Aug. 1. Bite Me is the singer's second studio album, which follows the emotional rollercoaster of her full-length debut Snow Angel. At the time of the album announcement, Rapp shared the blustering 'Leave Me Alone' and followed it with the playful 'Mad.' Those initial previews into Bite Me offered a pop rock emphasis, while 'Why Is She Still Here?' slows things down a bit and recalls the singer's earlier work.
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Last week, Rapp started teasing the track on Instagram when she captioned a photo dump with the song title. The singer confirmed the 'Why Is She Still Here?' Friday release date with another Instagram post earlier this week.
In May, the singer stopped by the podcast Good Hang with Amy Poehler, and shared that her mom, Denise Rapp, specifically chose her name to ensure success. 'My mom chose my first and last name to be—well, okay, arguably chose my first and last name to both have R's,' Rapp told host Poehler. 'She was like, 'Alliteration, just in case she wants to be a pop star' … I'm obsessed with the way she did it. I'm like, 'Thank you, God.''
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