During a recent performance in Los Angeles, Role Model plucked another born-again wildcard to dance with him during his latest single “Sally, When the Wine Runs Out.” Except for this show, rather than pulling a fan from the audience as he has throughout the tour, the musician born Tucker Pillsbury surprised the crowd with a special guest appearance from Reneé Rapp.
“Where’s my Sally tonight?” Role Model asked before Rapp popped out during the viral bridge of the song. “Aw, shit, here we go again, I’m falling headfirst/Ankles hit the two-step, Sally makes my head hurt/Heard through the grapevine, she can be a diva/Cold like Minnesota, hotter than a fever,” the audience screamed out while they danced around the stage.
After the show, Role Model posted a TikTok he filmed with Rapp set to “Sally, When the Wine Runs Out.” The record has been used in more than 123,000 posts on the video platform since being released in February on Kansas Anymore (The Longest Goodbye), the deluxe edition of the singer-songwriter’s second studio album.
“On the deluxe, there’s a couple songs that came form the core time that we were working on the album, but ‘Sally’ was one of the ones that I wrote later on with new experiences under my belt,” he recently told Triple J. “For me, dance-y songs are probably the hardest things to write. I can’t do it. And that was like my one goal. I was like, I have to do this, even if it takes me an extra year. And I think we did it.”
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Role Model is in the home stretch of the No Place Like Tour run in North America. He’ll play in Vancouver and Seattle this weekend before closing out with two nights in Portland on April 7 and 8 and another stop in Seattle on April 10.
Rapp herself has been off of the road for a while as she works on the follow-up to her 2023 debut Snow Angel. “I feel so sure that I’m obsessed with it. It’s everything that I want it to be. I’ve had my album name for months. I’ve known exactly what we’re moving into. This is the world we’re going into,” she told Rolling Stone last year. “My anxieties prior to that were not getting it, and now the world has actually been achieved, and not just an idea. Now I’m so stubborn. I’m like, ‘This is gonna be amazing.’”