Call it magic or manifestation, but either way, Reneé Rapp is a master of mind games on her latest single, “Lucky.” The record is set to appear on the original motion picture soundtrack for Now You See Me, Now You Don’t, in theaters Nov. 14.
“I go fast, baby, I go hard/But don’t leave a scratch when I crash my car/Steppin’ on stars on the boulevard/I find it kinda funny, I get so la-la-lucky,” Rapp sings on the chorus before disappearing into the world of the film on the bridge. “Okay, got my way/It’s almost like I’m Reneé/Oh, no, where’d I go?/Now you see me, now you don’t.”
“Lucky” will ring out in theaters at the end of Now You See Me, Now You Don’t, the long-awaited third installment in the Now You See Me franchise, which began in 2013 and last returned in 2016.
The single follows the arrival of Rapp’s second studio album, Bite Me, which arrived in August. “I love it so much. I worked so hard on it, and I had so much fun making it that I think the hard part is not shooting myself in the foot by getting really anxious about it,” the singer told Rolling Stone earlier this year. “I feel like I made music from places that were really scary for me, not to sound like such a pick-me. So to put it out into the world, and not know if it’s going to be received in the way that it feels for me is scary.”
In a review of the record, Rolling Stone wrote, “She spends her second album, Bite Me, enjoying what a rowdy-and-proud mess she is, for one of the year’s most delightful pop blowouts, an uproarious 33-minute celebration of sex, drugs, and rock & roll.”
