- 2025-10-18
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MUSIC
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Reneé Rapp Performs “I Think I Like You Better When You're Gone” & Cover of SZA's “Good Days” on BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge
American singer-songwriter Reneé Rapp appeared on BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge to perform “I Think I Like You Better When You're Gone” and a cover of American singer-songwriter SZA's “Good Days”.
This marks her debut on BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge as a musical guest.
“I Think I Like You Better When You're Gone” was featured on her sophomore album “Bite Me”, which was released back in August via Interscope Records.
The track was written by Reneé Rapp, Omer Fedi, Mikky Ekko, Alexander Glantz, and Ali Tamposi. Produced by Henry Kwapis and Omer Fedi.
“Good days” was released by SZA as the lead single from her second studio album “SOS” in 2020. SZA wrote the song with British singer-songwriter Jacob Collier.
Reneé Rapp told BBC Radio 1 about the song, “I mean, I love SZA. I mean, she was one of my favorite artists in high school. And she's remained one of my favorite artists to this day. I think she's amazing. She's also, I mean, she's an incredible songwriter, but I think because she has so much swag. People don't realize how good of a singer she is. She's a fantastic vocalist and is really, really, really articulate. And I don't cover a lot of songs anymore. So I wanted to cover something that was, like, slightly challenging and also really vocally impressive, and frankly, hard for me to do.”- Reneé Rapp's album “Bite Me” reached No. 1 on the UK Albums Chart and No. 3 on the US Billboard 200.
She spoke to BBC Radio 1 about how she made the second album. “I mean, I feel like everything was incredibly different. I stopped listening to people that don't make music, because if you don't make music, then why the hell am I listening to you. And I also think the biggest difference, I think I just got a lot better. I think I have just become a better songwriter. I think I understand how to make pop music now in a way that I didn't really before. And I was very sure about what this album was and thematically, what it needed. So I felt like I was quite like, headstrong in like, what was gonna work and what wasn't. Because, nobody knows something better than yourself. I think a lot of things were different. I also just, like, had a lot of fun making it, like, I made it with like, three people, mostly, like, it was always like, four of us in the studio all the time, and we got so close, and some of us were already so close. So it was also just like a mess. It was such a mess, like we were just tweaking every day. It was so fun. And I don't think I enjoyed making the first one as much.” - source : BBC Radio 1's Live Lounge
