00:00The month was June.
00:01Summer was hot.
00:03The air polluted.
00:05Mosquitoes everywhere.
00:07My hope was dwindling.
00:09I was working a lot and I was so excited
00:13for Brad to come out.
00:14And I was like waiting, like on my knees.
00:17It's all I listened to.
00:21She's just the shit and she knows that she is.
00:25That's cool.
00:26She's also like such a insane songwriter.
00:29Like such an insane songwriter.
00:31Like she wrote like heaters for other people.
00:33Like Charlie XCX, let's be clear, wrote Senorita.
00:37Yeah.
00:40What's up, my name is Renee Rapp
00:42and these are some of my favorite moments
00:45in pop music from the last 30 years.
00:48We're in 1994 with the Cranberries Linger.
00:51The Cranberries was like a group
00:52that I had listened to passively until very recently.
00:57And they had like kind of like a moment on the internet
00:59which like typically is so annoying.
01:02But I actually was like, oh, this just put me back on.
01:05I like love the tone in all of their songs.
01:07I think like vocally, she's so like specific.
01:16Like that sound is really, really, really cool.
01:18We're moving to 1998 with Lauryn Hill.
01:21Can't take my eyes off of you.
01:23I love Lauryn Hill.
01:29There are a lot of people who can sing.
01:31Like I think pretty much everybody can sing
01:33at the end of the day.
01:34However, there's like such a specific gift in somebody
01:37like Lauryn Hill.
01:38It's like there's like a level of like emotion
01:40that you can't really explain or quantify.
01:44Like it is just, she's just for me like one of those voices
01:47that is so technical, but not out of like training,
01:52just out of like raw like soul.
01:54I love her.
01:55She's so cute too.
01:57She's just such a cute little thing.
01:59I wasn't alive in the nineties,
02:00but like all of the music now is like so reminiscent,
02:06or at least like in my brain,
02:07like pulls from so much like nineties hip hop.
02:11And I think just in general,
02:12black artists have been so influential.
02:16They've essentially just kind of like created what's cool,
02:19which is typically how it goes,
02:21but like really, really heavily in music.
02:23We're moving to 1999,
02:25which was Destiny's Childs by My Name.
02:26If you want to like talk about like influential musicians
02:30over the course of the last like 30 years,
02:33you can't argue.
02:33Like I think to me,
02:35I do believe that everyone has an opinion
02:38and like, you know, your opinion is your own.
02:40And like your opinion is not fact.
02:41However, when it comes to Destiny's Child
02:44or when it comes to Beyonce,
02:46you are capable of being wrong if you say the wrong thing.
02:50And there's one correct answer
02:51and it's that it's amazing.
02:53And if you say that it's not,
02:56you have no taste and are a hater and should look inward.
03:00Cause that's ridiculous.
03:01I get on Twitter every now and again.
03:03Well, actually not anymore, but I used to.
03:05And I would always see this like conversation around like
03:08like Beyonce being like overrated or whatever.
03:11And I was like, wow, people are really just bored.
03:13I digress.
03:14Destiny's Child shaped my whole childhood.
03:17My mom would always sing bootylicious to me
03:20when I would feel badly about myself.
03:22Cause I like got to, you know, grow up.
03:24And I was like, you know, had like boobs pretty quickly.
03:28And like, you know, had a little ass and a small waist.
03:30What can I say?
03:31It's so hard to exist like that and be me.
03:34But my mom would always make me sing bootylicious to myself
03:38whenever I would get like a little insecure about it.
03:40And that's the closest I ever got to religion.
03:43She was singing it with me.
03:43She would like start me and I'd be like crying.
03:45And she'd be like, come on, come on.
03:47You can do it.
03:48Cause my body's too.
03:50And I'd be like doing like the riff poorly, but.
03:57We're moving to 2002, Work It by Missy Elliott.
04:01Missy Elliott is just like goaded.
04:03She's just goaded.
04:04Like basically like everything she did and does became cool.
04:10There's this like little like grit in her voice.
04:16That's so inherently sexy without even trying to be sexy.
04:23It's just like, so in your face.
04:25And like, if you listen to like anything like Missy Elliott
04:28in like your like headphones where, you know,
04:31the like AirPods or whatever have like the noise canceling.
04:33It's similar to meditation.
04:36I listened to a sound bowl every now and again,
04:38but nothing's gonna do it the same way that Missy Elliott does.
04:42So I don't really think it's for meditative purposes,
04:45but it does make me feel good as about myself.
04:47We're now in 2007 with Untouched by the Veronica's.
04:51I have like damn near played the song out
04:55over the course of the last couple months.
04:57I was seven when this came out.
04:58So I don't really remember like actively listening to music at that time.
05:02I digress.
05:04I was a child, but I cannot tell you how many times I've listened to Untouched.
05:09Like, it'll probably be my most like streamed song of the year.
05:12I feel so untouched and I want you so much.
05:18Like insane is all I listened to.
05:21It's all I want to run to on the treadmill.
05:24It's also like in a very specific part of my voice when I'm like running on the treadmill and singing,
05:30which I do genuinely love to do because it's so good for my mental health,
05:34but also it's very good for my lungs, I guess.
05:36And it's like a hard song to sing on the treadmill.
05:39And they're also so hot. They've aged so well.
05:43It's ridiculous.
05:45They're so fine.
05:47I like was stalking them on Instagram the other day.
05:49I was like, wow, like that's incredible.
05:52Like a round of applause.
05:53I also just didn't like actively listen to a lot of pop music as a kid.
05:57Like I was only listening to the music that was played for me, right?
06:00Which was just like a lot of like R&B, a lot of hip hop,
06:04and then a lot of like really heavy like rock stuff that like my dad really loved.
06:08But nobody was like playing pop for me, which is strange because it's what I make.
06:13But I don't know.
06:14We're moving on to Beyonce again.
06:172008, If I Were A Boy.
06:19It's a masterpiece.
06:21Like what are we doing?
06:22Like literally what are we doing?
06:24It's like not again up for debate, up for discussion.
06:28Keep your opinions to yourself.
06:29I genuinely couldn't give less of a .
06:31That song is so money.
06:34It is so money.
06:35It is beautifully written.
06:38The vocal performance is crazy.
06:41I remember like when I was younger having the first moment of like when it flips at the very end
06:46and being like, but you're just a boy.
06:47Like you don't understand.
06:49But you're just a boy.
06:52I don't date men anymore, but I really understand that song.
07:01And if I did at this point in my life, I'm sure I would feel that way because y'all have
07:05no respect.
07:06That song is amazing.
07:08It's so amazing.
07:09And she's one of one.
07:12She's one of one.
07:13I'm like, there's like nothing else to say.
07:16Anything else to say would be redundant.
07:17She's one of one.
07:18Everything.
07:19It's brilliant.
07:20The only thing that my mom would listen to or play for me when I was a kid was Beyonce.
07:24And I didn't really take vocal lessons or things like that.
07:27But what I did do, which I do feel like is a vocal lesson in and of itself, was just like
07:31obsessively listen to every single song in her discography.
07:36And I would just like listen and try so hard to mimic the way that she says and pronounces
07:42her bees when she sings.
07:44It's like a very specific, I don't even know how to explain it.
07:47But I like sometimes inherently do it now.
07:50But yeah, I like always tell people that I learned to sing by listening to Beyonce.
07:54We're moving to 2010, Backstabber by Kesha.
07:59This song has influenced songs of mine that I've written.
08:02There's a song on my first album called Poison Poison that is so influenced by Backstabber.
08:08I would like to say that if not done wrong, I'm quite graceful.
08:15And if done wrong, I'm not.
08:17And I thought it was so cool that Backstabber was a song that was basically just like a girl
08:22being like, this other bitch has done me so wrong.
08:26And I'm not going to sit over here and be like, oh, but like, it's okay.
08:29Like, you know, we're girls.
08:30We need to play nice.
08:31And like, I shouldn't be too aggressive because like the men are supposed to be aggressive.
08:35I don't feel that way.
08:45And I've never felt that way.
08:46And I don't plan.
08:47I'm feeling that way.
08:48So I loved Backstabber.
08:502011, Frank Ocean, Novocaine.
08:52Frank Ocean is my favorite writer.
08:56You know, I'm like a massive fan of so many people, but I didn't really understand like
09:11true like fan culture until I saw him at Coachella.
09:14And I think I cried for the like entirety of the set.
09:17That's another one where I'm like, I don't care about your opinion if your opinion is wrong.
09:24I don't care.
09:25I love that man.
09:26I will defend that man until my dying breath.
09:29You want to talk about an influential artist?
09:30He's one of the most influential artists of like my generation.
09:34I find it really intriguing that he's kind of a recluse and is like mysterious and is so
09:40careful and thoughtful because I think there's so much pressure, at least I feel, to like
09:45constantly be producing things and constantly putting things out and constantly like literally
09:50putting like your tits out on the internet, which by the way, I love to do that.
09:54But I mean that more of a metaphor.
09:56I don't know if he like feels that pressure or not.
09:58However, I do think it's really cool that he seemingly stays to himself.
10:05In 2016, Godspeed came out because Godspeed was on Blonde, which is my like goaded album
10:12of all time.
10:12I like have a blonde tattoo.
10:13Like I'm like that deep in the lore.
10:16I have the duration of the album on my arm.
10:18And Godspeed is just like so beautiful and so heartbreaking.
10:30And all of the like sonics in that song and in that album period are just like second to
10:36none.
10:37They're so emotional.
10:38I used to be pretty specific about my tattoos and then I just started kind of being like,
10:43okay, things started to go rogue when I got, I got a dollar sign on my wedding finger
10:48so that no matter who I married, I'd be married to the game.
10:51Once I like started referring to myself as a lesbian, I got like a scissoring tattoo.
10:55Yeah.
10:56So we've kind of lost the plot a little like this.
10:59This is a little person like flipping somebody off.
11:02So now I just don't really care.
11:03I just get whatever I think is cute.
11:052017, Control came out.
11:09This is an album.
11:10Drew Barrymore is still my favorite scissor song.
11:13I have like a very specific memory of driving home in North Carolina in the like pouring rain,
11:22listening to Control.
11:24And I had just gotten out of a relationship with such a shitty, shitty person.
11:29And so I was really, really down bad.
11:31And I remember driving home and I was listening to Drew Barrymore
11:34and it was like pouring rain and I was like, wow.
11:42I love this song and I love this album so much.
11:45And it was like,
11:46it wasn't even really anything specifically that I was thinking other than just like,
11:50this is such a down bad time in my life.
11:53And this album is so important to me right now.
11:55And so now it's like one of my like goaded favorite albums.
11:58We're now in 2022.
12:00The EP that Remy Wolf released called Juno is so like batshit crazy.
12:09Love Remy so much.
12:10Like as a person, I love her to death and think she's so talented,
12:14but also just seems like such a fan of her music and her artist project.
12:18It's like so crazy.
12:20There's a song on Juno called Cake.
12:22I was listening to Cake and I was running and I was trying to sing it and I was very humbled.
12:29It is such a bitch to sing.
12:31It is so high.
12:38She's another one of those writers.
12:40It's just different.
12:42So different.
12:43She's so smart and like so sure of herself.
12:47Oh, she's good.
12:49She's good.
12:50Her new album is amazing too.
12:512024 McGee's album.
12:55I've been so obsessed with it.
12:59I've been so obsessed with it.
13:00Like I love it so much.
13:02I think Candy is one of the best songs in the last couple of years.
13:08It's so good and he's so talented and he's such an incredible singer.
13:12Also a nasty guitar player.
13:14He's so good and so underrated.
13:27I love making music so much.
13:29I'm also just so obsessive and like so hard on myself.
13:32So I love it and it also drives me crazy.
13:36Like making this album, I love it so much and I'm like so excited.
13:41But like it is all I can think about and it consumes every second and waking moment of my life.
13:49And every conscious and subconscious thought that I have.
13:53I guess that's just kind of what like making an album is like being in the thick of it.
13:57I'm like so addicted to it.
13:59It just it genuinely feels like an addiction.
14:01Like I feel like so addicted to it.
14:03Like I'm about to leave and like go and work.
14:10I auditioned for like every reality singing show that you could possibly think of.
14:15And every single time they were like, nah.
14:18And I was like.
14:20My hamster had just died before I auditioned for America's Got Talent.
14:24So I was mourning, but it's okay.
14:27I'm pretty sure I sang my off nonetheless.
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