Renee Rapp Talks Not Remembering 'Fire Crotch' Line In 'Mean Girls,' Being Bisexual Justin Bieber, Her 'Sex Lives of College Girls' Exit & More In New Interview

On auditioning for singing competitions and more

I started auditioning for America’s Got Talent and American Idol whenever they’d come anywhere close to Charlotte and Huntersville. I auditioned for, what’s the f–king [name]? High School Musical: The Musical: The Series.

[I auditioned for] everything. Yeah. It didn’t go anywhere. They wouldn’t put me past the first little round. You know how people go into the room for American Idol? I wasn’t in the fucking room.

I couldn’t get [to a TV moment]. I wanted to so bad. Because I was just obsessed and I was like, “I need to sing. I have to do this.” I just never went anywhere, which in hindsight is slay. It is so funny. I think that it made me so resilient. And so I’m spunky and scrappy. I am like, “I will make some shit work.”

On wanting to be the bisexual Justin Bieber

That was my pitch of myself to my label. I was obsessed with him. He was the one boy celebrity, pretty much, [that] I ever had a crush on. And I realized, as I was getting older, I was like, “Oh, I think I just want to be him.” Also, obsessed with him. Still. I’m a lesbian, but wow, do I love Justin Bieber. That boy is still cute to me, sorry. And he also, I think, has a similar [love] of R&B. He reminds me of a really sexy lesbian. Just the way he walks around and moves onstage and always has this demeanor that’s chill, sings his ass off, dresses really cool. That was just my pitch, and I got signed.