A few days before releasing “Snow Angel”, Reneé shared this statement on her social media platforms:

My album was done. I had all the songs. I even had the lead single picked out, too. I spent four months writing nearly every day. I spit out all my concepts, all my ballads, my fuck you’s and my I love you’s. We rented out studios in Jersey while I was filming Mean Girls and cried in damn near every studio in the Valley. Fast forward May 8th, probably 11 pm. Alexander [23, the producer] and I were supposed to be finishing vocals but we decided to try a Hail Mary.

A little over a year ago I had a traumatic experience. I don’t love to throw that word around lightly, so I understand the weight it holds. My last week in Jersey, I texted Alexander that I wanted to write about it when I got home.

I explained and recounted the situation in sessions with collaborators, but it just wasn’t sticking. Then, that night, May 8th, he told me, ‘I really want to write that ‘snow’ song. I think it’s good, really good.’ So, we stayed up. We wrote it that night and recorded it the next day. [The] other single was out, ‘Snow Angel’ was in. They believed in the song as much as I did … That meant everything.

I have never been simultaneously so proud and scared of a song in my life. ’m very sarcastic and I make a lot of jokes, but this one is fucking different. This was all supposed to happen this way, and this was the song you were supposed to hear first.

The song touches on several topics- substance abuse, self doubt, heartbreak, loneliness, trauma, and more. The songs lyricism includes several euphemisms for cocaine use. Snow, burning nose tips that are hot and cold, explicit descriptions of addiction, and “making angels in the snow” , as well as referring to the extremely traumatic event that she wrote about on her social media platforms.

Her vulnerable notes on the making of the song also explain her stated fear of releasing the song to the world, and allowing others to hear. It is hard to be open about such a sensitive and often stigmatized topic like substance abuse, although Renee has touched on it previous interviews. In a January 2023 interview, she discussed her high school drug and alcohol abuse, and also discussed her experience with an eating disorder. Cocaine is an appetite suppressant, and many anorexic individuals abuse the drug so that they physically don’t get hungry and can stay skinnier.