Bonnaroo 2024 Artist Spotlight: Reneé Rapp

Like we’ve been doing for many years now, we’re making it our mission to help you get acquainted with many of our favorite acts from Bonnaroo‘s 2024 lineup. After roaring back to life in 2022, after two years off due to Covid and weather, and feeling fully like its old self again with a great fest last summer, this year marks Bonnaroo’s 21st installment (and 23rd anniversary), boasting not only another great and varied lineup, but also a continuation of some of the big changes and improvements rolled out over the last couple of years, with more flexibility in ticketing and camping, a reimagined “Outeroo” campground area, new activations, and further new ways to Roo. Back once again in its usual June 13-16 timeframe, we’re counting down the days until another great weekend on the farm.

As we dig through the entire schedule, we’ll highlight a spread of performers spanning across genres and stages, big and small, new and old, to bring you some of the most interesting, lesser-known, and most highly-recommended among this year’s crop of artists. And as our time at ‘Roo approaches, we’ll also be bringing you some special features and full list-style daily lineup guides, to help you plan your weekend ahead of the fest. While these previews won’t span every artist, and might omit some more obvious must-see acts, we hope they’ll serve as a way to help you navigate Bonnaroo’s gargantuan lineup, and to make the most of your busy weekend at the fest!

Grab your tickets right here if you haven’t already, and read on for our Bonnaroo Artist Spotlight!

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Whether you discovered multifaceted, quintessentially Gen Z artist Reneé Rapp though her acting- either on the big or small screen, or even on stage- or through her music, or perhaps some combination of the two, she’s seemingly been an inescapable force in entertainment over the last few years, between her starring role on HBO Max comedy-drama The Sex Lives of College Girls, last year’s buzzworthy debut LP, Snow Angel, or for her recent film debut as Regina George in the musical adaptation of Mean Girls, a role she previously performed on Broadway in 2019. Just 24 years old, Rapp grew up in the suburbs of Charlotte, NC, breaking into the theater world as a teen in high school and regional productions, and earning distinctions regionally for her talents, before winning Best Performance by an Actress at the National High School Musical Theatre Awards in New York at 18, an honor which helped put her on the radar of the professional theater world. Debuting on Broadway in Mean Girls in June of 2019, she became a permanent fixture that fall, but saw her run (which also included a short-lived stint by Sabrina Carpenter as Cady) cut short by the pandemic. She’d land her first TV role as Leighton on The Sex Lives Of College Girls in late 2020 though, starring for two seasons then returning to Mean Girls for the film, released this January, before putting acting on the back burner for the foreseeable future to focus on her music career, which kicked off in late 2022 with debut EP Everything to Everyone. That same powerhouse voice that made her a musical theater star has also quickly earned Rapp a devoted following as a pop star, as has her personality- young, outspoken, confident, funny, and unabashedly queer. Her EP is full of heartfelt, electro-infused, crooning and youthful pop, spawning early hits like “In the Kitchen,” “Too Well,” and “Bruises,” but it was last year’s debut full-length, Snow Angel, that really felt like Reneé finding herself as an artist, adopting more pop rock bent and slick production, and notching viral hits like “Talk Too Much,” “Tummy Hurts,” “Pretty Girls,” and title track “Snow Angel,” alternating between lush ballads and electro pop bangers without missing a step. Most recently, Reneé landed her biggest hit to date with Megan Thee Stallion-featuring “Not My Fault,” a song written for the Mean Girls film soundtrack, though not as a musical number in the movie (meaning, she’s not singing it in character as Regina George), which she performed as a musical guest on SNL. Though she’s only been touring since 2022, Rapp is fast becoming one of pop’s most essential young stars, and her prominent, main stage debut at Bonnaroo only serves to underscore that fact.