Reneé Rapp’s Bite Me Tour Rocks New York City’s Madison Square Garden: 5 Best Moments

At conscionable 25 years old, Reneé Rapp boasts a box office-topping movie (Mean Girls), a hit TV show (HBO’s The Sex Lives of College Girls) and a No. 1 medium (2025’s Bite Me debuted atop Album Sales). On Monday nighttime (Sept. 29), the vocal powerhouse added different notch to her belt: her archetypal headlining amusement astatine New York City’s iconic Madison Square Garden.

Launched successful enactment of Bite Me, which reached No. 3 connected the Billboard 200 and housed fashionable tracks similar pb azygous “Leave Me Alone” and “I Think I Like You Better When You’re Gone,” Rapp’s latest trek kicked disconnected connected Sept. 23 astatine Colorado’s Red Rocks Amphitheatre. Across 2 hours of roof-raising vocal performances, Rapp treated the packed arena to the entirety of Bite Me and a fewer tracks from her debut album, Snow Angel, arsenic good arsenic its preceding EP, Everything to Everyone.

The rubric way of the second task served arsenic Rapp’s intro Monday night. After a video interlude successful which Rapp played respective antithetic versions of herself (masc Reneé, popular prima Reneé, mundane Reneé, etc.) to item the antithetic roles she’s expected to play successful her idiosyncratic and nonrecreational lives, she softy sang “Everything to Everyone” earlier decently kicking the amusement disconnected with the deliciously riotous “Leave Me Alone.”

With nary backup singers oregon dancers, Rapp made fantabulous usage of her stage, which was comprised of a black-and-white checkered floor, a star-shaped level lit up with pinkish lights, and a assistance that she mounted connected 2 abstracted occasions. From her melodramatic smoky oculus constitution and silver-and-black outfit to her accent connected her unrecorded band, Rapp nailed her singular amalgamation of glam stone and punk popular aesthetics. Interestingly, she besides tempered that benignant with nods to her theatre background, from the reddish curtains that framed the signifier to her penchant for video interludes that usage her acting chops to further the show’s communicative of leaning into her popular stardom successful earnest. Some of that hostility adjacent made its mode to the setlist, with Rapp cutting abbreviated “Not My Fault,” her Mean Girls soundtrack single, successful favour of “At Least I’m Hot,” a likewise disco-tinged fig from Bite Me.

From Beyoncé covers to an incredibly affectional show of her debut azygous “In the Kitchen,” Rapp had respective standout moments during her MSG show. Nonetheless, fewer moments compared to her giving each subordinate of her terffici set — Tim Ramsey (bass), Josh Porter (guitar), Terrence Vaughn (keys), Ari O’Neal (guitar) and Josh Foster (drums) — clip for their idiosyncratic bows, implicit with their names lighting up the large screen.

Here are the 5 champion ...